Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Braques, who with Picasso was an exponent of Cubism before 1914, is represented by a "Still Life". Here the predominating tones are black, green and red. The composition, geometric in character, reveals the profitable influence of Cubistic training without being dominated by this school. The artist achieves here a...
The new state Czeckoslovakia got the whole of Upper Hungary with more than one million Hungarians. To the newly reorganized Balkan kingdom Jugoslavia was delivered the south part of old Hungary, with Hungary's sole sea-shore and the harbor of Fiume, with about 600,000 Hungarians. And finally, Austria...
"The Catholic Church is not a national church, but a universal society and to the head of that society men of all nationalities owe the same spiritual allegiance. . . . That certain nationalistic groups (in the U. S.) continually attempt to make him a 'foreign potentate' is a proof of...
But such silliness did not submerge the occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop...
...children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence of Spencer Tracy as the hero, and Frank McHugh, whose characterization of a top-sergeant is one of the crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play has been successful the rectangle play should be still more so, George Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been...