Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True realistic pictures of the horrors of war can do more for the prevention of another conflict than a thousand peace organizations. Otto Dix had this in mind when he produced his "Der Krieg" or War Etchings, now on view in the Germanic Museum until February...
...Dix's use of grey white against black backgrounds often gives a frightening effect to his portrayals. This is especially true in "The Dance of Death," a sketch which shows men in grotesque poses caught by wire entanglements. Here this use of white brings out the details of bleached skulls and bones with all the contortions of agony...
...picture is charged with unintentional humor. Richard Dix brings this out when that grim square jaw of his goes into action and he tells Madge Evans, blinded wife and bereaved mother, "Kiss me and tell me to go back into the tunnel." But everybody knows that the fault is in the script, and Mr. Dix, with years of variegated experience behind him, is easily the best...
...Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women-and simply called, "Head of Woman", by Otto Dix. Gentlemen, don't miss this one. The Vagabond shudders at the thought of Dunster students living with this woman the rest of the month...
...power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which the engineer blames his best friend (Leslie Banks...