Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models wore masks, thus hiding their identity and their shame from the world." When he taught there, he was dismissed for asking a young lady art student to substitute for an absent model...
...education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology, not to Thucydides. In art the "primitive" has seemed more fruitful than the Classical...
...many years now, the vocabulary employed in the explanation and criticism of works of art has been hurled with almost crushing force at the innocent and unsuspecting layman. Such words as "Impressionism", "Cubism", and "Futurism", have been bandied about with such utter freedom and carelessness, that the intelligent individual, having a normal interest in modern art, has often been forced to throw up his hands in despair and mutter something about "artificial catchwords". Well, it is true enough that any categorizing term used in the sphere of the aesthetic is nothing more than a valiant attempt to oversimplify...
...main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his painting the images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural...
...scope of the Committee, who may remain outside? Stockyards mean unions, and unions mean possible Communists. One Party man on the Harvard Faculty might soon provide an opening for the Dies wedge, one radical on a magazine grounds for an expose. Mr. Dies has become past-master of an art on which all strong-men depend. Rather than investigating, he is condemning. Newspapers have become for him an instrument of blackmail--a Roman Forum from which he can read his list of proscription...