Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students considered this point obvious, they did not know Ozenfant. He is known in Europe as one of the most provocative theoreticians of modern art. Born in Picardy 52 years ago, he began expounding his ideas about it in 1915, later became associated with Modernist Architect Le Corbusier, founded a school of painting called Purism, taught, lectured, wrote books, studied Egyptian, Chinese and Negro art, and raced automobiles until his 40th year, when on a slippery racetrack near Paris, his racer turned over, left him scratched up and convinced that he was too old for that sport...
...emotions that the scene produced on him. The Cubists went further, tried "to evoke emotions by the exhibition of colored forms" which did not "look like" anything in particular. But Ozenfant showed (by photographs of cubistic and surrealistic-like scenes from modern life, by reproductions of Egyptian and prehistoric art) that the paintings of abstract artists were related to the contemporary steel-&-stone world, or to the art of earlier periods. Painting has a vocabulary, as does literature, but its vocabulary is color and form; and Ozenfant's advice to painters is to eschew what is fashionable, ephemeral, frivolous...
Convinced that abstract art has served its purpose, Ozenfant now believes that it is waning, wants painters to work for the social world and to paint for everybody pictures that will be recognizable to everybody. In Seattle he is preparing an exhibition of his own painting, finishing a semi-autobiographical volume, dropping the oblique, off-hand remarks that distinguish his work far more than its formal arguments. Typical Ozenfant aphorisms: "It is not art that fails, but the artist." "Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary." "Let us once a year . . . enjoy all our rights, including that...
Next to Franklin Roosevelt's and the Cheshire Cat's, perhaps the most famous smile in the world is that on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa Gioconda, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris. Dr. Maurice Goldblatt, Chicago art connoisseur, believes her expression is a tremendous trick achieved with a compass, the ends of the lips being turned up in arcs which, if extended, would precisely meet the corners of the eyes...
...Christie, Manson & Woods), famed London auctioneers, the voice of Captain Sir Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week's sale was the familiar story...