Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jacob Lawrence, a Negro expressionist, wrote that the most important thing about art to him was not expression at all, but observation. "My long-term approach is an effort to develop the insight and personal philosophy I bring to my observation. I tried to do this in The Wedding...
...went on to say that his landscape with girls in bathing suits had been "motivated by a mood of joyfulness." ¶Ben Shahn's 73 words were as incisive as his art: "I'll say this much: that art is my particular form of speech, and what ever I feel about men who sing and play guitars, I've said in the present picture...
...patronage of Louis XV in France, and a series of German counts, Italian dukes and British businessmen made porcelain manufacture a thriving industry-and something of an art. Then, as now, porcelains were valued more for their sentimental qualities than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher...
...Corcoran Gallery in Washington staged its 21st biennial exhibition last week. Designed to be a cross section of contemporary U.S. art, the show should have been as exciting an event as most of the Corcoran's past shows. Actually, it was no such thing...
...painters. But there was nothing surprising in the lot. The other 13 pictures in the show-culled from 2,000 entries in open competition-were no better and no worse than the invited ones. The New York World-Telegram's Emily Genauer, one of the few U.S. art critics with a nose for news, set out to discover how the jury had operated...