Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delphic Studios a 29-year-old Bolivian artist, Roberto Berdecio, friend and disciple of Artist Siqueiros, displayed a number of experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present...
...into which Indian art is mainly divided: Oriental tradition and imitative academicism. His greatest admiration is for van Gogh. His idea is to combine the flowing designs and symbolism of Indian art with a strong Western technique. Into many of the paintings shown last week at Manhattan's Delphic Studios he had mixed so much diluted Western impressionism that nothing Indian was left but subject matter. Others seemed purely Oriental. But occasionally it seemed as if Artist Yawalkar might yet use Western art as well as Gauguin and Matisse used the art of the East...
Inasmuch as I have never yet seen a published photograph of a prizefighter (successful or otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...
While news of the incipient publication of College Humor's pictures spread over Drake last fortnight, "Bus" Bergmann was enraged to find printed in the daily Times-Delphic one of Heloise's earlier publicity portraits. It showed most of her and was slyly captioned "Today's Hot Tip." The editor of the offending issue was a 160-lb. student named Dan Anderson of Salt Lake City. Before he knew it he was hauled out of his office by "Bus" Bergmann and told to take his hands out of his pockets. He declined and woke...
...later became an assistant director of the School of American Sculpture in New York, studied in Rome and Florence. As it has most artists, Mexico has attracted him recently. He gave a one man show of his Mexican studies in Manhattan's Delphic Studios last winter...