Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produce either: 1) composite photographs, in which the images are superimposed; or 2) photomontages, in which they make a composition. Combinations and variants are innumerable. To one school of photographers this technique is a low-grade amusement or else commercial fakery. Photomontage, however, was first used for serio-comic artistic purposes by the Dadaists around 1919, was later developed in Germany by Experimenters Moholy-Nagy and Walter Peterhans (see p. 50). It has been ably used for posters by Soviet Artist El Lissitzky, Swiss Herbert Matter, Hollander Cesar Domela-Nieuwenhuis, German Herbert Bayer, and badly used in many...
Paris Exposition.* Artist Renau quit his Government job two months ago to do some work of his own. First thing he did was to make 13 photomontages, in some instances blending painting and photography, to illustrate by symbols the 13 points of Premier Juan Negrin's program for Spain...
More complex than ordinary posters in that they interpret abstract political aims, the Renau montages are best on the simplest points. To illustrate Point Il, "Liberation of our territory from foreign military forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble...
Died. Max Factor, 61, onetime Russian Imperial Court cosmetician and wigmaker who became Hollywood's No. 1 make-up artist; of a liver and kidney ailment: in Beverly Hills. In 1935 Mr. Factor gave a $25,000 party for 10,000 people to open a $600,000 cosmetic factory "of proportions created only for royalty in the past...
...receive a cryptic note: "It is unwise to form youthful attachments," or "Sorry you missed an interesting discussion in the parlor." Yaddo is not bothered by rumors that it is a free-love colony. Nonliterary, nonartistic wives and husbands are not usually invited to Yaddo with their mates. Married artist-couples and their children are sometimes sent to a subsidiary colony called Triuna Island, located more than 50 miles away, on Lake George...