Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Dancer Lichine, increasingly a disciplined, powerful artist, showed his mettle as a choreographer who may be useful to Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs...
Last week students and lovers of art could turn to one of the richest accounts ever written of an artist in Europe, the monumental Journal of Eugene Delacroix, translated for the first time into English by able, devoted Art Critic Walter Pach...
Back from Nashville, Tenn. a year ago came Manhattan Photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe with a portfolio full of photographs and a head bubbling with enthusiasm. In a semiliterate, 57-year-old Negro tombstone carver she had discovered yet another U. S. primitive artist. The Museum of Modern Art's Director Alfred Barr Jr. echoed her enthusiasm, and last week the first one-man show the Museum has ever given a Negro artist opened in a couple of alcoves in the Museum's temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center...
Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are all tattle directe. Cut directly in the stone without preliminary modeling, they are all small, because he has not yet been able to buy a sizable block. Their charm lies in the simple-hearted directness with which Sculptor Edmondson has chiseled out woolly-headed angels, rams, dumpy little preachers, lawyers and ladies with bustles...
Delacroix, whom Renoir called the greatest artist of the French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery...