Word: artistical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board last night, composed of Dorothy Adlow, art critic of the Christian Science Monitor, A. Tilliman Merrit '29, professor of Music, F.O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, found itself in agreement on the role of the artist in society...
...sort. Any biologist will tell him that Mr. Pollock made a subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration, it has been in the painting of many abnormal forms, microcephalic (small-headed), acephalic (headless), atrichous (tailless) spermatozoa with a few typical specimens...
...went to work with a will, learned the trade of the artist-engraver, bullied his master into revealing a few closely guarded technical tricks by threatening to murder him. Soon he was turning out the first of the 1,300-odd plates which by mid-18th Century had made him famous...
...artist who had gotten his notice two months ago from London's Old Vic repertory theater (TIME, Dec. 27), Sir Laurence Olivier had to admit last week: "I guess we are doing pretty well...
...points which these four exports will debate this evening are: 1.) The relation of the artist to his government and society in general 2.) The problem of artistic communication to the greatest number of people...