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...first scholarship 51 years ago at the Royal Academy in Constantinople, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 18. He studied in Paris for nine years, there confirmed his devotion to the man he considers the greatest of all still-life painters, Jean Chardin. His luminous, ale-brown eyes flash when he speaks of the exactions of technique, which so many modern artists seem to neglect. Last week he had on his easel what looked like a well-composed impressionist painting, the color masses and emergent figures just right. It represented five weeks' work-only Stage...
...Other masters, like Bosch and El Greco and Chardin, share an enthusiastic contemporary reception," wrote Pundit Alfred M. Frankfurter for the catalogue, "but none of them comes so close to the dernière heure of modern taste. . . ." Pleased visitors were inclined to agree that the dernière heure would be a happier one if such sparkling craft and wit as Piero's were more commonly wedded to unfettered fantasy...
While de Terra, leader of the expedition, concerns himself primarily with the geological sequences and stratigraphy, and Dr. Teilhard du Chardin with the palcontology, Movius' duties will be the excavation of the Pieistocone terraces and other deposits which may yield implements or other remains...
...discoverer of Pekin Man, Pere Teilhard de Chardin, will join the expedition in Burma on December 1. With him two field trips will be made into the north above Myitkyina, which lies at the foot of the Chinese Alps, near the desolate wastes of Tibet...
With the addition of de Chardin and von Koenigswald it promises to discover further evidence of man's age, origin, and the animals that existed with or before...