Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist's standing with Steinway has nothing to do with a White House invitation. But it happens that a Steinway protege holds the record for having been asked there most often. He is Ignace Jan Paderewski, whom the Steinways first brought to the U. S. He has played for five successive administrations but this season his neuritis is too bad for him to leave his home in Switzerland. Compared with him, the Morgan Sisters were thoroughly unexciting for the season's White House opener but they were Mrs. Roosevelt's choice and she will make...
...well written rhapsody which states a new conventionalized thesis. The intellectuals are greatly exercised just now about the relation of art and propaganda. Mr. Philbrick's assertion that it is holy and fruitful marriage has been winning along a wide front for quite a while. He identifies the artist's inspiration with religion, which is sound enough, and recognizes that Communism is a religion, which is unimpeachable. That he commits a number of fallacies in his eloquence does not in the least detract from his effect, for all such theses as his, both pro and con, transcend logic...
...first time last week New York had a chance to appreciate fully what great gifts these cantankerous friends have brought the world of art. In the Knoedler Gallery the first selection from the fabulous collection of Ambroise Vollard ever to leave France went on exhibition. Farther down the street Artist Henri Matisse's art-dealing son Pierre proudly showed 20 sombre impressive canvases by Georges Rouault, the largest single showing of his oil paint ings ever held. Hulking, testy Ambroise Vollard was born in the Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris...
...family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last survivor of their circle, proud of the fact that he discovered and pushed a whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection...
Fifi Vollard lives today with his cat (see cut) in a huge house on the RuedeMartig-nac whose first floor shutters are never opened. Artist Rouault has a locked studio on the top floor from which Fifi for all his blustering is rigorously excluded. They lunch and quarrel together nearly every day, but not even Fifi Vollard knows where Georges Rouault lives. He receives all his mail and makes all his appointments at No. 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld which is the Gustave-Moreau Museum of which he is curator. Neither his stately wife, Marthe Le Sidaner who paints very...