Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts 1d, running the gamut of art from, medieval to modern in the record breaking time of four months, has little chance to wander from the job cataloguing masterpieces. No attempt is made to explain the technique of criticism. In grasping the meaning of a kaleidoscopic mas of material the student is left entirely to his own devices. A totally didactic survey, the course can hardly hope to supply an ideal basis for enjoying art...
This correlation of the elements that make a mature art belongs in the section meetings, but here the time is spent on quizzes and reviews. The interested and intelligent cannot express their ideas while the instructor is rehearsing fundamentals to the lazy and inept. Creative thinking and personal reactions are stifled in the bud, and useless repetition shuts off what might be enjoyable general discussion...
...painting of Dr. Archibald T. Davison '06 was the first of this series and will be included in the exhibition. Both portraits were painted in the Fogg Art Museum, that of Dean Sperry last week. The sittings for the work occupied about 10 hours...
...undergraduate, Martin concentrated in American History and purposely avoided creative work in art in order not to be influenced by any one technical school until he had broadened his view of art in general. Although he felt that his calling was an artistic one, he was not certain until just before graduation in what direction it would be. For several years he lived abroad, devoting his energies mainly to music...
...Senior year, Martin had decided that portrait painting would be his vocation. The next step, he felt, would be to attach himself to an artist whose work he admired, whose critical judgment he trusted, and who was not connected with an art school. He became a tutor and general handy-man in the household of Wayman Adams and worked with him for two years...