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...from Philadelphia over 20 years ago. His first exhibition of paintings was held at the Daniel Gallery in 1915. At that time he was an ardent cubist and bewildered conservative critics with his angularities. In 1921 he went to Paris, where he has remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots of bits of landscape, nudes, egg beaters and pieces of wire have caught the fancy of French advertisers. Besides portraits of his friends, he has become financially success ful as a commercial photographer. Last week...
...issue of TIME for Aug. 5, it is stated in the review of The Eater of Darkness that Dadaism was "born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916." This would give rise to the erroneous impression that Dada was a movement of French origin...
...manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada has 391 different attitudes and colors...
Whoever selected the examples shown apparently deliberately omitted the most extreme phases of modern French art; there is little suggestion of cubism or expressionism or dadaism. For this reason the pictures represent rather a general undercurrent of taste that has remained definitely French, persisting through various vicissitudes, absorbing much of the point of view of the extreme experimenters and revolutionists, but still maintaining its characteristic lightness and deftness of touch. Thus the influence of the great innovators is obvious in much of the painting, now Renoir, now Cezanne, now Matisse or Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath...
...opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have to choose between literary baseball fans and the Boy Scouts of Dadaism" is, to quote Mr. Lewis, rather difficult...