Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela side of the city which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening...
...fantastic paintings by Spanish Salvador Dali: Métamorphose de Narcisse and Soft Construction With Boiled Beans, 1936, whose agonized self-torn figure, partly carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money...
Georges Braque is now a big, rugged man with white hair and deep-set eyes. He was born in 1882 at Argenteuil near Paris, received a good technical training at several private art academies. About 1907 Braque and Picasso began to do geometric abstractions from nature and 'Picasso enjoyed calling Braque his "cher maitre." Later Picasso remarked that Braque and James Joyce were the "incomprehensibles whom anyone could understand." In the War Braque served as a lieutenant of infantry, was severely wounded, won the Croix de Guerre. Since the War, while his good friend Picasso has leaped from style...
...three-story, 25-room mansion in which the Bauhaus method was incongruously reborn this week was built 60 years ago by the first Marshall Field, given outright last year to the Chicago Association of Arts & Industries by Marshall Field III. The association, headed by grey-haired President Edward H. Powell of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and endowed a few years ago by midwest business bluebloods, gave its support to the School of Industrial Design at the Chicago Art Institute until last year it decided to use its $262,000 fund to establish a more ambitious school...
...twelve years the plow of Farmer Jean Gonon struck a hard object at the same spot. He finally dug it up, found it was a marble statue of a woman, lugged it home with difficulty since it weighed almost 200 Ib. Experts pronounced it a masterpiece of Greek art, a lush Venus probably inspired by the school of Pheidias (450-400 B.C.). The right arm is broken off at the shoulder; the left holds draperies which loop down below the belly. The legs are missing below the knees. Most of the nose is missing which makes the profile unpleasant...