Word: craftsmanship
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Dali was readying for publication a handbook to be called 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. Meanwhile he gave the unfinished Leda a surrealist boost in the Dali News-a newspaper by and about himself, which he published for his exhibition. Wrote Dali...
Like Salvador Dali, Gugel is perfectly capable of producing art, when he chooses to, that makes sense to everyone, with universal significance, and a craftsmanship that everyone can applaud. Unlike Dali, he often does. And he can duplicate old sculptures and paintings. He makes his living that way. When the baroque church at Diessen decided recently to replace its nine missing Stations of the Cross, Gugel was chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism...
...this year's show, most of the 300 chosen U.S. artists were out of art's second drawer, but they were the best available these days. Visitors who plodded through the exhibition on opening day last week agreed that the paintings had nothing in common except craftsmanship-and perhaps mediocrity...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
Foolish Virgins, like Double Wedding in Beverly Hills, did demonstrate the kind of craftsmanship and the horrified absorption in sex which have always been Ernst's claims to notoriety. Only Salvador Dali (whom orthodox surrealists consider too slick and too successful) can rival Ernst at his most unpleasant...