Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course you can't please all of the people all of the time, but twice in the last year you have pleased me so much that 30 minutes after receiving the March 2 copy I am letting you know how much I like the color-reproductions of modern art which you inserted between pages 42 & 43. On the other occasion that I was more than pleased with your "Art" section, you ran interpretations of modern American life by Thomas Benton and others of the realistic school [TIME, Dec. 24, 1934]. I think that in both cases the pictures chosen...
...certainly did a swell job in color reproduction in the issue of TIME for March 2. It was so good, in fact so superior to the customary job of color reproduction, that the Director of the Cleveland School of Art wondered whether TIME would be willing to lend, rent, or sell the color plates of my "Emancipation" panel for use in their school catalog for 1936-7. . . .DANIEL BOZA...
...style is closely related to that of the sculpture in the Cathedral at Burgos, a key monument of Spanish art. Archeologically, coming from a dated sarcophagus, it is of importance in adding another placement date to the Cathedral...
...writer of "The Foxes" has not sacrificed his art or his pleasure on the altars of fame and true greatness. He has no pretensions. He does not attempt to explain life or to escape it, he presents it as he sees it, with a quiet grace and charm that is always captivating. The Negro dialect is presented echoicly without the slightest attempt at humor. The work is a lyrical pastoral, delicately beautiful. One must struggle to speak prosaicly of it when inevitably there is a rhapsody on the tip of one's tongue...
...back to the Tower to dress, and, very handsome, to Dunster House to an exhibition of contemporary French paintings. The tea was very good. Thence home and a little sore at my heart that I cannot appreciate this modern art; so I to play my gramophone, and anon...