Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is, he quoted my own sentiments exactly. Fact is also, your answer will satisfy only that handful of "experts" who rate artistic pratique through some strange omniscient power to see Art in limp watches and nauseating distortions of the commonplace...
...time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that Art...
...Mature, art-loving citizens are entitled to the belief that these Surrealistic loose-screws are in the same boat with the Nudists, Townsendites, Technocrats; aberrationists all. We are sick of seeing them kowtowed to. We want to see them get the razzberry they've got coming to them in the absence of any lucid defense of their craft. . . . T. P. CHITTENDEN Edmonds, Wash...
...very ordinary guy. Like Letter-Writer Sullivan I've cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...
...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...