Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balance and ensemble. And this had the fortunate result that the violin and 'cello were never compelled to force their tone to the point of raspiness, which so often happens with an overpowering pianist. These three artists demonstrated clearly that chamber music is a collaborative rather than a competitive art...
...tellingly contoured that in the hands of a great artist it emerges as one of the most ineffably seraphic passages in all music. It points up the fact that the profoundest statements may be uttered by the simplest means. Complexity is not the sure road to great art...
...weaker sex.) Only two young women were seated. When the one nearest me perceived I was standing, she instinctively arose and tendered her seat to one older than she. Now, in a period when the elders are claiming that respect and consideration for older persons is a lost art in college youth, a Harvard coed stands as a living denial of the regrettable accusation. Such an act (coupled with subsequent deeds of kindness and graciousness on the part of students, faculty, and administrators) contributes to the feeling that there is something inherent in the culture of Harvard which has caused...
MANHATTAN'S Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world's richest, recently decided to remain closed on Mondays because the city had withdrawn $35,000 a year from its contribution to the museum's maintenance and operation costs. From Tuesday through Sunday this week, the Met proudly displayed its latest major acquisition, proving that it suffers no lack of purchase funds. The well-nigh priceless St. John's Vision (see color), by El Greco, was bought from the estate of Spanish Painter-Collector Ignacio Zuloaga. And although Director James Rorimer kept the price to himself...
...art market keeps climbing. At Sotheby's in London last week, the scramble was for 29 French impressionist and postimpressionist works put up for auction by American Collector Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Paul Cezanne's portrait of his wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum...