Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back on the microscopic detail of Naturalism, and like the French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME expresses her ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...
...Jean, already a worshiper of Tintoretto, Mantegna and El Greco, stood them off, earned a living doing posters and sketches of furniture. He first won general notice in 1927 with Nu an trois-mâts (nude and three-masted ship). Of another picture, Léda, a critic said that it delivered the kick in the stomach characteristic of genius. De Botton's portrait of Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), his onetime philosophy teacher, was bought by the French Government...
...Dean of the Rutgers Summer School, Clarence E. Partch, will come to see how the Harvard school works, taking a summer off from his regular job, while Jakob Rosenberg, art critic and formerly Assistant Director of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum, will lecture on Fine Arts...
Included in the list of distinguished scholars who will be present are Federal Workshops Supervisor Leonard M. Barker, John M. Brown, noted dramatic critic, and Bengt Edlen, of the University of Upsala, Sweden...
...Every critic's first impression was the same. Despite the Congress' slightly incoherent Utopianism, works on view were of a remarkably high character, presented the highest artistic average of any group show of the past season. Artists exhibiting were far from unknown. They ranged from ultra-conservatives like Paul Manship through progressives like Leon Kroll, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Biddle, to complete abstractionists like Stuart Davis. A few scenes of the Spanish War were on the walls but for the most part propaganda was left to the Congress' various pamphlets...