Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficiently venerable to have direct copyists. Director Warren Wheelock produced a solid canvas of "Men Working'' in precisely the mood and manner of rotund Diego Rivera. Artist Dmitry Wiener exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter their pictures for food, rent, clothing, or what had you. Haberdashers and dentists were first to strike bargains...
...also a facile, amusing, often brilliant draughts man. Robert Edmond Jones's completed sets are generally more effective than his sketches. Jo Mielziner's seldom are. In addition he has found time between building scale models, carpenter's blue prints, electricians' light plots, laying out color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention if its author did not know the difference between a fly loft...
...protest against a person's religion." concluded his bride. "Why should you judge people by their color? I and hundreds of others have taken my husband for what he is-a brilliant...
...England?" she said in answer to a correspondent's question. "What would any country think of another which held it in subjugation? It is vain to expect justice from a race so blind and drunk with the arrogance of power,* the bitter prejudice of race and creed and color, drunk moreover with abysmal ignorance...
...suggest the old mystery plays. Mary of Egypt (German Charlotte Boerner) sang capably last week but, for the rest, the Philharmonic production was amateurish to a degree that Toscanini would never have tolerated. In his own miraculous fashion Toscanini might even have made the drab, derivative music take on color, sound significant...