Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another dusty studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Last week, in her skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures two years ago through Director Alfred H. Barr Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art, she didn't have a nickel for the subway ride...
...were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...coon's age had the Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, N. Y., enjoyed itself so much as it did last week. In a basement room of the revered Albright Art Gallery were exhibited 40 works of peculiar art contrived by Society members to parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general-a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included...
Today is Today. Today is Today, Today. Today is. By "Sadi Sadi" (Mr. Levy), a burlesque of sadistic art, showing a woman with her arm cut off and a set of malevolent teeth fixed in the stump...
...items which were already preferred before or after the lunch. "The results, show the differential conditioning to be remarkably effective. Even one lunch was sufficient to produce considerable and reliable changes in the group tastes. ... It appears that the preferential value of one or another form of music or art is largely associative in nature...