Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodramatic tendencies, and of its often brutal realism. In accomplishing this end the play wright would exist the virtues of John Doe, showing that the lives of good, simple people often contain dramatic material of the first order, which may be converted into the proper sort of the artist is keen enough to see in the shiny serge suit of John Doe the flashing cuirass of a true knight...
Like almost every other artist of the Renaissance, Tintoretto painted the legend of the "exceeding delicate" Susanna, wife of Joakim, who was spied on by two amorous elders while taking an oil bath with "washing balls" in an orchard. The repulsed elders accused her of adultery. Attorney for the defense was the young prophet Daniel who proved perjury by examining the witnesses separately. Puritans who object to the depiction of Susanna in art cannot read about her in their Bibles. Omitted from the King James version, the story may be found in the Douay version (for Roman Catholics), Daniel XIII...
...cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored at quayside, her three bare poles and spars standing out against lowering storm clouds. For these and other canvases modest Artist Mouillot expects no fancy prices. They may be had for from...
...history of the movement, as the arrangement of the paintings will show, is a history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
Whatever one may think of Mr. Channing Pollock as an artist and dramatist, one must admit that he is a very clever speaker. Yesterday, when he addressed members of the Cambridge School of Drama, he succeeded in thoroughly charming his listeners. With one sweep of his sharp eyes, he sized up his audience, judged it skeptical and slightly unsympathetic, so immediately proceeded to disarm all by frankly admitting what some have termed faults, that is, his propensities toward sentimentalism and moralizing...