Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important gift from Philip Hofer '21 of Cleveland includes rare and beautiful etchings of Gaya, his "Caprichos", "Proverbios", and "Tauromaquia" in early editions, which well show the artist's skill in satire, delightfully portrayed by a combination of etchings and aquatint. There are also two works of Antonio Canal which are characteristic of his brilliant handling of sunlight and atmospheric effect...
...cartooning, as in every other creative art, original ideas count a good deal more than any machine-like reproductive quality. For example, the modern newspaper artist, in addition to creating three hundred and sixty-five different ideas each year, must contend with the difficulty of working 'out of the weather,' that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow...
...Lampoon's tradition is one of free speech, to the point of libel if need be. In 1925 its artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
...swarmed into the Manhattan courtroom of the U. S. Supreme Court as though legal curtains were about to be raised on the scene of some glamorous crime. The jury, chosen for its ignorance of Leonardo, was composed of a clerk, two agents, two realtors, an accountant, a shirtmaker, an artist, a poster artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics, histories of art. On an easel stood...
...tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...