Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composers have viewed this change in the mechanics of their art with mixed emotions. Some throw up their hands and declare that the art of composition is done for. Others see the possibility of a new method of composing, envision composers of the future short-cutting to sound itself, creating not compositions on paper, but recordings...
Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
Distinguished by an almost total absence of Dada clutter and by a powerful employment of Surrealist scale, lighting and perspective, the montages were the work of 40-year-old Jose Renau of Barcelona. For two years Leftist Director General of Fine Arts, charged with guarding Spanish art treasures and with planning the Spanish Pavilion at last year...
Since an Egyptian bronze cat was installed at the St. Louis City Art Museum last month, attendance has increased rapidly. Last week the museum announced that the August total of visitors, 51,323, was the greatest since May 1914. The announcement was edged with rue however, because what the cat really dragged in for the St. Louis museum was trouble. Fortnight ago St. Louisans of such varied stripes as the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the American Artists' Congress were swelling with indignation at the purchase of a $14,400 piece of ancient sculpture while St. Louis...
Directors Cahill and Parker are them selves surprised at the way small towns and cities have responded. In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than...