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...exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
...stressed the fact that photography does not attempt to imitate the work of the painter. Except in one instance, the field of photography confines itself to realistic, rather than interpretative portrayal. That instance is in the case of modernistic photos from unusual angles, which resembles the current Cubist and Surrealist tendencies...
...very ordinary guy. Like Letter-Writer Sullivan I've cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...
...There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety...
...again at the Seligmann Galleries, were fairly exhaustive showings of the amazingly different types of painting that contemplative, experimental Pablo Picasso Ruiz has switched through in the past 30 years, from the ''blue period" of emaciated clowns and absinthe drinkers in the 1900's, through the cubist experiments, the heavy-hipped "classical" goddesses, the pure abstractions, and the portraits, flavored strongly by Ingres, through surrealism until 1934 when, sued by his wife for divorce, he temporarily gave up painting. A morose, silent Spaniard more interested in the technique of painting than the problems of humanity, Artist Picasso...