Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Mrs. Wright gave her husband what money she had, sent him out to Mexico to make a new start in life. Shortly she heard that Mr. Wright's new life included an artist's model named Myrtle Gardner.' Last year she began divorce proceedings in New York. Before her case could be heard, Mr. Wright secured a divorce in New Mexico, married Miss Gardner. But Cobina Wright wanted a New York divorce and alimony...
...very confusing to middle-aged Missourians. For years they had been taught that the local artist of whom their fathers had been so proud was an artless fellow who did not know how to draw. Yet in Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art was proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George...
Only an aesthetic blackguardism, Fry proceeds to show, will find any English artists of absolutely the first rank except in architecture. "In Wren we did produce, as it seems to me, the greatest artistic personality of our nation--a man that one can put beside the great Italians and perhaps above any of the French." Of course, dissent will be forthcoming; what about Hogarth? Hogarth "was a propagandist for morals, and the propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having...
...girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs himself he gasps his own epitaph: ''What a great artist dies...
...stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere. Some of the men wore tail coats, no trousers. One woman came naked from the waist up, was hastily removed. Wrote society reporters: "It was all cockeyed, terribly amusing and just about the most sophisticated party of the year." Said...