Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dali. Artist Dali was born in Figueras near Barcelona in 1904, as a child developed a strong persecution mania and a wholehearted admiration for the works of his friend and countryman, Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali entered the Academy in Madrid, was quickly expelled for insubordination. As an art student he reached Paris in 1927 when surrealism had yet to make any headlines but was the talk of the Montparnasse cafes...
...Artist Dali who wears a knitted Catalan liberty cap whenever possible, takes surrealism in dead earnest, but has a faculty for publicity which should turn any circus pressagent green with envy. On his first arrival in the U. S. he solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
...example, the everyday behavior of a great artist is likely to resemble ham acting. Wilfrid Lawson, a spectacular and accomplished performer,* is no ham actor...
...pops its protagonist on the boards naked in all his pompous vanity, groping lubricity, childish craftiness, monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships...
...Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs up a series of rumpuses, and Mine Wesendonck...