Word: artfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leave out the sweet stuff. The sob sisters can dish out the halos and the Grand Old Man eulogies. I want TIME salty, penetrating. No drivel, not even in the Art Department...
Since January 3, 15,000 Londoners a week have filed reverently into Burlington House to see the annual winter show of the Royal Academy-this year a whopping display of 17th-Century European art to which the King lent four famed canvases by Rubens. Fortnight ago a smaller exhibition of larger import opened a few blocks away at the New Burlington Galleries and immediately began to draw comparable crowds. This was the first solo exhibition of England's five-year-old MARS (Modern Architectural Research) Group, which now numbers about 60 members in the United Kingdom and at least...
...husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff at an art school, Artist Tal-Coät has forged ahead slowly, was adjudged by Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed...
...This can clearly be seen in the study of the Fine Arts. At the present time almost a dozen universities and colleges are offering courses in German art while a few years ago the Fine Arts Department was the only place where a student could receive instruction in this important aspect of art history...
...upstairs room Sinclair Lewis sat at the head of a long table facing a row of radical poets, proletarian novelists and dramatists, defenders of civil liberties, pamphleteers, listening uncomfortably to their speeches that welcomed him to their ranks. Said New Masses Editor Granville Hicks: "When I read Work of Art I wondered-is Red Lewis with us or against us? But when I read It Can't Happen Here, I knew-Lewis is with...