Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of young Munich artists who have developed a type of surrealist symbolism, in which the trappings of 19th-Century romantic painting are employed as elements of fantastic design, Ende was making a name for himself when the Nazis came into power, slapped his work into the Degenerate Art show...
...found that, in the world he presents, figures are stopped before a barrier, or seek shelter like the nudes in Under the Console (see cut). In Munich, where his lively little wife teaches physical culture, Ende has been caught like many a German painter in current confusions of German art: his painting has received the official thumbs-down that goes with inclusion in Hitler's Degenerate Art show, but he has been commissioned to do murals for Göring's air ministry...
...three European art centres this summer, foreign critics studied imported shows of U. S. paintings, prints, photographs, found European influences strong in most of them, expressed polite interest but no overwhelming enthusiasm. C. In Venice, the U. S. exhibition of 63 paintings and no prints, including "old masters" like Winslow Homer and moderns like John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic...
...painters that included the work of Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, Peggy Bacon, left English critics with their bowlers clamped firmly on their heads. Declaring that half the paintings might have been done "by devoted but not very skilful admirers of contemporary French art," critics found the remainder honest but uneven, likened their effect to the blare of trombones...
...southern England 3,000 years ago, voracious packs of wolves roamed the moist lowlands. The savage Britons of that Stone Age period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed...