Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prizewinner Ward is a professional advertising artist. The idea for the composition came to him while watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester...
...mural completed last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens...
Also on the program is Dvorak's Violin Concerto with Ruth Posselt, a local artist who has been acquiring quite a reputation, as soloist. The closing number will be Schumann's Fourth Symphony in D minor, composed in 1841 and revised and renumbered...
When the jury last week decided that Artist Kroll's picture outranked all of these, it also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
...Artist Kroll's U. S. competition might have been keener were it not for the current squabble over whether or not museums and art galleries should pay rental for exhibitors' pictures. Because the Carnegie International declines to pay rental fees, dozens of crack U. S. artists refused to send pictures, showed last week instead at Pittsburgh's Gillespie Galleries...