Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully chosen, the pictures gave a solid demonstration of Tradition in U. S. art. This Americanism was nothing grandiose: just a persistent modesty, candor and good workmanship. Despite all European influences, U. S. art kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western settlements, the sketchers who rode with the troops and Indian fighters, the thoroughly capable, salty and serious realism of George Caleb Birmingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins. Even in Sargent's bravura there was a kind of innocence...
Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
Stacks of Art Quiz dwindled like canapés at a cocktail party and in two days the first printing (500) was exhausted, another of 1,500 copies ordered. Pleased Miss Parker planned more quizzical quizzes...
...quality of the pieces in the collection is of secondary importance, however. What is far more pertinent is the fact that for the second time this year certain members of Leverett House have had enough practical initiative and aesthetic sensibility to remove the capital "A" from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt which leads a worthless and dusty existence in the middle of a blustering and pretentious museum. A museum is a noble project but instead of hosing art...
...that the excellence or beauty of every structure is relative to the use for which the artist has intended it. In other words, an object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function...