Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the front door of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week, oblong slabs of glass painted with black stripes revolved steadily under a six foot pair of red lips painted by Artist Man Ray. In other galleries throughout the building were a black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab...
...formerly considered one of the most individualistic of enterprises, is being made a cooperative one by a government plan being directed by Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist, and carried out by University of Iowa NYA and WPA student workers. The three panels of the Iowa State College mural project will be II feet high and 41 feet long. Every effort is being made to have the murals historically correct in every detail...
...usefulness of the X-ray in penetrating to the under layers of paint without damaging the work is illustrated. In one case, it is shown, the X-ray indicates that the Fogg Museum probably possesses a true portrait by the colonial artist Copley, and not an inferior copy. The picture's authenticity had been questioned because the surface painting is inferior to the artist's usual work...
...demonstrated, however, that the underpainting was probably in Copley's own bold style, but that the picture had subsequently been damaged and had been touched up by a later artist, who was not content to fill in the gaps, . . . but repainted the whole surface...
...which a skillful restorer can similate the surface quality of an old master is seen in the painting of the "Pieta" by Carlo Crivelli, a 15th century Italian artist. The whole central portion of this picture was destroyed, and early in the 20th century restoration was undertaken by an able Italian artist, who entirely repainted the center portion, following other original works by Crivelli, and imitating the master's materials and technique very closely. Even with the X-ray it is hard to tell where Crivelli's work leaves off and the modern artist's begins, but by careful observation...