Word: cortissoz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...
...particularly interesting. For, while modernistic art may or may not be valuable, it is undeniably fashionable in the U. S., and this is due in no small measure to the increasing publicity and support given it by U. S. art critics. But you will not find Royal Cortissoz in the fervid com-pany which swirls in adulation around recent esthetic figures. Post-Impressionism and other modern cults and coteries are not sacred to him. In the March Scribner's, he regretfully says farewell to the magazine, which is hereafter to appear without illustrations and, hence, without Critic Cortissoz...
Forthright, easy to understand, is Critic Cortissoz's summary of modernism...
...Critic Cortissoz coolly and continually insists that excellent technique, often branded by other critics as mere facility or the superficial finesse resulting from laborious routine, is an absolutely essential basis for all fine art worthy of the name. He finds in the late George Bellows, famed for his dramatic depiction of prizefighters, an example of a modern U. S. artist whose art is securely grounded in this respect. In his new book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall...
...jury of awards: ". . . They are evolving a treatment of the skyscraper that makes the most of the inherent structural necessities of the building. . . . They make the most of great simple masses, and avoid the finicky decoration that distracts from the beauty possibilities of sheer structural necessity." Art Critic Royal Cortissoz describes their work as "vertiginous verticality...