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...from the Ashcan. Glackens believed first and foremost in illustrating the everyday life around him. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy, became a newspaper artist, along with George Luks, John Sloan and Everett Shinn, for the Philadelphia Press and later the New York World. Afterhours, the group congregated around Painter Robert Henri, trying to match the dark brown tints of old masters like Frans Hals and recent ones like Manet...
...traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a Kyrie eleison without God. Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps are waiting for Godot in vain. In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying." "Then he's living," says another. The only sort of affirmation lies in Beckett's very act of communicating the darkness of his vision. As Eric Bentley puts it: "If one truly had lost hope, one would...
...longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West Los Angeles...
...belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...
...Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering its parks and pavements with a stubborn gentility that admitted only such locales as Central Park and Fifth Avenue as proper subjects for oils. He excoriated the Ashcan School as "contemptuaries." He accused the public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow...