Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collection of prints now at the Fogg Museum, Munch betrays little social consciousness. He dwells instead in the primal world of individual fantasy and frustration which give his art universal appeal. The exhibit shows that the morbid Munch was at his sardonic best between 1894 and 1900, when he created such masterpieces as The Cry and The Kiss. Later, his subject matter was more commonplace and his skill at dramatizing his ideas declined correspondingly. Although Munch might be called, after Van Gogh, the father of Expressionism, some of his prints have an affinity in style with Gaughin's flat...
...French peasant maid's hat perched on the head of a cocker spaniel with the ears drooping over the top. It has astounded many, not least by the fact that it continues to stand. For the past few weeks, Robinson Hall, in the School of Design, has featured an exhibit of Le Corbusier's painting. Their reaction--Le Corbusier is a better architect than painter. His painting is largely derivative, owing debts to Piccaso, Braque and Leger. Architect Le Corbusier on occasion shows he has a fine command of line as well as color, but his composition is not well...
Treating audiences abroad more freely, Soviet commissars of art shipped out for loan exhibitions paintings still considered explosive at home until, in 1954, the ghost of Shchukin rose to haunt them. During a huge Picasso retrospective in Paris, Shchukin's daughter, Irene, demanded back 37 Picassos formerly in her father's collection. In a panic, the Russian embassy dispatched a small black truck to the exhibit, whisked the Picassos off the wall and to safety inside their embassy. Said Comrade Picasso: "After all, what would happen if the Count of Paris claimed the chateau of Versailles...
...European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...
...every 28 people. Last week, as beaming boatbuilders launched the 47th National Motor Boat Show, the outlook for 1957 was for more clear sailing. Outside Manhattan's cavernous Coliseum, thousands queued up for as long as two hours in near-zero weather to see the biggest boating exhibit ever: 420 boats and thousands of nautical gadgets crammed into seven acres by 363 manufacturers...