Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting, was twelve-year-old Alex Kozloff, a Brooklyn carpenter's son, who beamed beside three small bright oils. His Coney Island was a broad copy of pictures he had seen on Sunday trips to museums, but his uninhibited use of paint and his free brush were evident. Sea Beach, he says proudly, "is out of my head...
...Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David did not become a bishop as his mother wished, instead of becoming the world's deadliest political cartoonist...
...news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
Good Girls Go to Paris (Columbia), before the Hays office gave it a brush-off, had a Too in its title. As it stands, Paris is just a naughty notion in the head of a waitress named Jenny Swanson (Joan Blondell), who has big gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life...
...more than adequate, however. In it we can follow sketchily the general development of watercolor painting in our country, see work by Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that more students do not take...