Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before starting on Things to Come, the salient production weakness of London Films had been technical. For this picture, which was made before the Denham studios were ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...
...bounce and intensity in the paintings of Doris (''Doric") Emrick Lee. Even a sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME, Nov. 18). Shortly thereafter the Art Institute, of which Mrs. Logan's husband is honorary president, acquired Thanksgiving for its permanent collection...
...landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch. She and her husband live in a rambling house, full of stuffed...
Blond, muscular, young Surrealist Peter Blume upset many a critic two years ago when he won first prize in Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Exhibition with a slickly painted abstraction of twisted topography and soaring sailors called South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). One of the eight art Fellowships went last week to Surrealist Blume to continue daubing at a small anti-Fascist canvas he began on Guggenheim funds...
Hither where thou art wont to sleep...