Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen. U. S. citizens got their first comprehensive look at Mexican art in a traveling show sent by the American Federation of Arts seven years ago. Last week another comprehensive, more up-to-date traveling show on its first stop in Chicago gave Midwestern art followers an idea of where Mexican artists are going. New work by Orozco was not included because that powerful artist is busy on a mural in Guadalajara. Consensus among the discerning was that without him the flame of revolutionary art below the Rio Grande looked somewhat pale...
...Afternoon Light, by 29-year-old Federico Cantu, Chicagoans could study a mixture of El Greco and Picasso monumentality as evidence of one of the influences which are at work to internationalize Mexican art...
...past four years Artist Blickenderfer has been employed by the New York Post as a retoucher of photographs. He lives in suburban Astoria with his dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source...
...shows like the Rabbit-Foot Minstrels. With a big, vibrant voice which survived even her last hard-drinking days, she sang blues songs long before the War brought the blues (and jazz) north, lived to see strict blues singing yield popularity to the sophisticated torch singing typified by the art of Ethel Waters. But Bessie Smith left her mark on jazz. Hot instrumentalists like Benny Goodman and the late "Bix" Beiderbecke, listening to her in Chicago night clubs, never forgot the mood and timing of her songs, or the way she taught her accompanists to perform...
...fruits of Audubon's hard work were bitterly attacked by contemporaries-by art critics like William Dunlap, by jealous naturalists like Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...