Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer...
Last week in Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes...
Soon Chang was making drawings of their pranks and slithering movements, studying feline anatomy with a keen and youthful eye. Chang's Roman Catholic mother, an informed amateur of her country's art, never sent him to school. Instead, his fresh talent was nourished by observing nature and studying the old Chinese masters. By the time he reached 16, Chang was also writing poems, verse so good that it attracted the attention of distinguished Chinese men of letters. This was an omen not to be taken lightly, for no Chinese artist may hope to succeed unless...
...half years ago when the late Capitalist Andrew William Mellon made his last grandiose gesture and presented the nation not only with a fabulous collection of art works but money and plans for a National Gallery worthy of housing them in Washington, he expressed the hope that it would "attract other gifts from other citizens who may in the future desire to contribute works of art of the highest quality to form a great national collection." First notable collector to live up to Andy Mellon's expectations is 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress, who last week came...
...lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress art...