Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...
...imaginative creation," explained the morose, poker-faced painter pointing to his master work. "If people see a nude in it I don't object. Anyway I long ago quit painting and took up chess. 1 was becoming a professional painter, and professionalism is always the death of Art. The old masters were professionals, which means that they were one-man factories. Art isn't made in factories. ... I find California a white spot in a gloomy world...
...story of a very brilliant young man with nothing much to say. Born in Rouen, the son of a well-to-do lawyer, he never had to struggle for a living, saw his two older brothers become respected, hard-working artists while he loafed at Julien's art school...
Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with...
...life shook before his eves, like the picture on the surface of a pond when a stone has disturbed its tranquil mirror." Readers who can appreciate such portaits will recognize that Van Wyck Brooks has succeeded as has no other U. S. critic in interpreting the masters of naitive art and, without reducing their stature in the slightest, made them simple and understandable in their greatness...