Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Manhattan, two exhibitions opened which reveal the forms that these two impulses, still in flux, have taken in contemporary Art: One by Lorsen Feitelson and his wife, Nathalie Newking, at the Daniels Gallery; another by ten famed Frenchmen, at the Dudensing Galleries...
...Frenchmen (Bonnard, Braque, Duffy, Seganzac, Laurencin, Marchand, Marquet, Matisse, Utrillo, Vlaminck) are all seduced by wonder, preoccupied with the intricacies of moods, of surfaces. The pinguid fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed...
Significance. Of these two exhibitions, the latter is the abler. But there is a note of weariness in the work of the Ten Frenchmen, as if they were tired of marveling at the animated apprehensions of their own suave minds. Observers, noting this fatigue, remembering also the descent of the Classicist group upon the Fall Salon, weighed more reflectively the work of Feitelson, of Newking. Just such was the state of things when a thousand Holy Ladies, in the candle-flowered dusk of Latin cathedrals, suddenly smiled...
Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time. Yet, this summer, U. S. navy fliers propose to go from San Diego to Honolulu, something over 2,000 miles-at least 20 hours-in a single hop. And Frenchmen propose to capture the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for a continuous Paris-New York flight...
...Wilhelm II offer condolences?" and quotes the Prague Tageblatt as saying: "One would think that Emperor Wilhelm would today somehow feel himself still connected with the fate of the German people and would join in the mourning when that Nation is overtaken by a loss for which Frenchmen and Englishmen express their sympathy. The Governments of Paris and London have condoled, but the German at Doom remains silent...