Word: corinth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lovis Corinth, whose hundredth anniversary exhibition is now at the Busch-Reisinger, shares much the same fate. Corinth, of course, shows the experience which the young Shimizu lacks, but often not enough when the chips are down...
...fact that Corinth's instincts were always poetic makes his flaw particularly lamentable. Shimizu might take his cue. When Corinth does a watercolor like The Beautiful Imperia, a loose wash of lucid color, he arrives at a quality which most of his Teutonic contemporaries generally lack--a naive loveliness, (the word used wholly in complimentary fashion.). The same goes for Susanna and the Elders or Imperial Palace. But when he draws, or tries to draw, his linear Knight, the result is nothing short of inexcusable...
...exhibition opens with a selection of works done at the close of the last century, including an interesting and painterly canvas by Hans Von Marees. It is actually frustrating that a painter such as Lovis Corinth who produces as charming a watercolor as Girl on Bed Reading will do a canvas such as Salome, which despite much good painting, includes a temptress as slick and glossy as a fugitive from the pages of Playboy. Yet it is precisely this literary concern with emotional interpretation which characterizes the history of twentieth century expressionism...
...Union. The managing editor was born in Omaha, Neb., and the assistant managing editor in St. Louis, Mo. Of our ten senior editors, only two are native New Yorkers, one born in Manhattan, and another in New Rochelle. The other eight represent, respectively: Chicago, IL.; Tacoma, Wash.; Nacogdoches, Texas; Corinth, Miss.; Vienna, Austria; Milwaukee, Wis.; Pittsfield, Mass.; and Baltimore...
FRED L. AMES East Corinth...