Word: experimentalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like those writers, Frank was no experimentalist. He was simply, says Somerset Maugham-who rides his favorite hobbyhorse in an introduction to this volume -an "honest"' storyteller: one who knows how to "devise a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end which satisfies his creative faculty. ... He had a tender and compassionate heart ... a healthy sensuality, and liked women to be young, pretty and buxom...
...with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...
...great originality which was soon to characterize his painting proceeded not out of flamboyant inventiveness but from a love of method. He became convinced that painting could and should be based on science-the laws of optics, the precise study of color values, etc. A voracious reader and experimentalist in these fields, he devised what became known as "divisionism." This meant painting in countless little strokes of pure colors rather than mixing colors on the palette. (The better known term "pointillism" more clearly indicates the application of color by myriads of points.) Thus, in the later paintings of Seurat...
Tousled old Painter John Sloan, still a lively experimentalist at 69, produced his explanation of why art is dear. Because "people consume our product without buying it," he moaned, "an artist has to pay a good deal of rent to have a nice place to store his unsold paintings...
...Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...