Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminiscence written ten years after Pyle's death he described Pyle's summer art classes "working in the spacious and grain-scented rooms'' of the mill studio. "To recall the unceasing soft rush of water as it flowed over the huge, silent wheel beneath us thrills me through." This capacity for simple, lush feeling is one of the qualities which have enabled Wyeth to score even more imaginative knockouts on Christmas book readers than his teacher. In 30 years he has done illustrations for 24 juvenile classics for Scribner's alone, some 500 color paintings...
Most students agree that Victorian histories of art are as distorted as early maps which were drawn as if the earth were flat. A half century's discoveries in archeology, anthropology and the psychology of esthetics have demonstrated that the world of Art is round, big, and far more comprehensive than the area bounded by the Greeks at one end and grandfather's favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
...regions by which the art map has been enlarged are geographic-Chinese, Japanese and Indian art; and temporal- the prehistoric art of the cave dwellers, the Sumerians, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians. These Author Cheney illuminates at length, scrupulously giving facts, interpretation and speculation for what they are worth. In this perspective, European art and artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time...
...vivid contrast to the squalor of their surroundings is Harvard University, with its beautiful buildings, playing fields, and comparatively well-to-do student body. The youngsters have not yet learned the gentle art of stealing cars, although this may come in time, but they have discovered the possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...