Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves. They shared studio, brushes, paint and their models. They exhibited their work, unsigned, together. They shared the subsequent outcry when the distorted figures and "unnatural" color of their painting shocked Germany. The boldest of them was irascible, 25-year-old Ernst Kirchner, who had been inspired by primitive art he had seen at the Dresden Ethnological Museum. Before the group broke up in 1913, its name, Die Brücke (The Bridge), had become famous, it had been joined by some of Germany's most promising younger artists, and it was credited by art historians with having founded...
Last week in London memories of that period were powerfully stirred by an exhibition of 20th Century German Art held at the New Burlington Galleries. Most of the recollections were melancholy. For at the gallery was plain evidence that modern German art has traced a more tragic course than that of any other European country. Still living in Berlin slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned...
...University School's youngsters, art "played a vital part." One year they had a medieval Christmas, painted a church doorway for scenery. Other years they celebrated Christmas in the style of Sweden, Russia, Elizabethan England. They illustrate their book with paintings, photographs of their work, themes. Sample literary work (a summary...
Miss Ogden pours her heaviest scorn on finishing schools. She studied nine of the most exclusive.* They go in, she reports, for uniforms, sports, compulsory chapel, languages (particularly French), literature, music, art, and keeping the girls away from boys...
Towards his petty criminals John McIntyre shows benevolent amusement. Boys, he implies, will be boys. Sam was just a good-looking, friendly kid selling pop in a ball park until Art, who knew his way around, took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast. He acquired a few attendants: Perry and Cork and a sinister character from Scranton named Max. He talked to all the concessionaires in the city and. because of his friendly way, they were glad to use the brand of pop he pushed. He talked to the barbers. He put short...