Word: charlot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teamwork v. Originality. At 50, Charlot has behind him a career that includes Montmartre as well as Mexico City, and a 700-sq.-ft. mural at the University of Georgia...
...chief contribution that the Mexican muralists (Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera) made to modern art, Chariot thinks, was in emphasizing "communal" painting, simple and clear in theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
...some time Charlot's Revue was mostly hard chorus work for Gertie. But twice when Beatrice Lillie left the show (once on falling from a horse, again on getting married) her understudy Gertie had her chance to shine. In 1924 Chariot's Revue came to the U. S. featuring the ludicrous Lillie, the elegant Jack Buchanan, and Gertie. They arrived on Christmas Eve and while waiting for the customs Bea and Gertie sat on their trunks, cried, and sang carols. The revue flopped in an Atlantic City tryout, but a few weeks later it wowed Broadway. Twenty-five-year...
...Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...