Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate will come to know the inner workings of the College's many departments. He will learn that Peabody Museum still treasures a mermaid that was once the possession of the great Barnum. He will discover, if he can, why the Fogg Art Museum is going to sponsor a performance of "Murder In The Cathedral", and what possible relation this-may bear to the recently published "Harvard Has A Homicide". He will view the dim recesses of University Hall where student's lives are made and broken...
...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
While open-mouthed crowds still jammed the corridors of the surrealist exhibition at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art last week (TIME, Feb. 8), another imposing exhibition of paintings that seemed equally cockeyed to the vulgar mind opened several blocks away at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, described by the Alliance's President Yarnall Abbott as "the most complete collection of nonobjective painting in the world," went up on the walls for a three-week showing. What the public had to see were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there...
...Surrealism came in only recently, through such painters who invented this senseless title to stupefy the public. . . . In love with intellect and sensation, which has nothing to do with art, they stirred the public with ridiculous ideas, but did not produce any valuable revelations. ... No wonder the public distrusts the confusion brought about by all this in artistic 'kitch...
...after the Battle of the Marne. After working with other abstractionists in Switzerland, the Baroness came to the U. S. in 1926. Here she still paints objective portraits, for money, but scrupulously tells her clients, "I will paint a picture that looks like you, but it will not be art...