Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointed commander of the Ninth Corps Area (Far West) where he handled with minimum red tape more CCCampers than there were soldiers in the U. S. Army (116,000). General Craig of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mrs. Craig of Berkeley, Calif, might have posed for the purposeful pair in Artist Grant Wood's American Gothic. The Army could not expect the amount of flair from spectacled 60-year-old Chief-of-Staff Craig that it witnessed during the extraordinary term of extraordinary Chief-of-Staff MacArthur. But the Army knew it had a leader who would carry on with...
Among the fraternity, French art dealers have a handy way of figuring the value of pictures by artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting number of numéros (a numero being a space about five inches square). Pablo Picasso, highest priced of any French painter, gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced...
...their own work. This is the sort of plan that Harvard could and should adopt for the undergraduate who is interested in creative art, for at present the Fine Arts department offers only one course, Fine arts 1a, which is of any practical value to the artist...
...profound feeling of organic hatred toward the enemy-toward all the filthy, abominable remnants of the old world, its wolfish laws and fetid life. . . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by every soldier and office employe, by every teacher and artist, because this hate is a great, heroic, sacred hate which belongs to the proletariat...
...rather slight story of The Great Waltz is built around the careers of the Johann Strausses--father and son. Guy Robertson lends grace to the figure of Young Strauss as an artist in love, praying for recognition for his music, and balked by a jealous father. Marie Burke is very satisfying as the Countess who sponsors his career and finally brings him his "great chance...