Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Read's false definition leads to a false antithesis: resentational"' art between and traditional as nontraditional "rep as ''non-representational" art. Analyst Her ter thinks this is the root of modern confusion...
...famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry thereby becoming the cliche of a school...
Widow of William Sergeant Kendall, dean of the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1913 to 1922, severe Author Herter lives a retired life at Hot Springs, Va.. far from the fevered world of exhibitions and studios. Although her book stimulates readers to think for themselves, it also shows her grave limitations: lack of contact with, and a prim insensitivity to. the genuine achievements of the movement whose misadvertisement she abhors. Few lovers of art will agree with her acid comments on Grand Old Man Henri Matisse, some of whose recent paintings and drawings, including Rumanian Blouse...
...University has done a more scholarly job of keeping his eye on the ball, shows more intimate knowledge of modem pictures than Christine Herter. The Primitivist kickoff came during the last century, when Europeans began to envy the free life of savages, began to see something valuable in their art...
...Tahiti, was not the first artist to make a touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...