Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked the President if he was now describing the "Lambert Plan." No, said the President; the plan he was sketching would be worked out in final form shortly but had as yet no special name. Nevertheless, reporters knew that before the President's press conference a lean, iron-grey, mustachioed gentleman had attended an earlier session with the President, Secretary Morgenthau and Under-Secretary of the Treasury Hanes, Administrator Stewart McDonald and other officials of FHA. After the President's conference, so many reporters telephoned the iron-grey gentleman that his boss, Stewart McDonald, called in the press...
...Done in grey, with staring whites and blacks, Guernica had a visceral effect on Londoners who had just got over the war scare, an esthetic kick for the critics. The Times's, Eric Newton noted that in his studies for a screaming woman (see cut) Picasso had drawn each feature from the most expressive angle (eyes from the front, nose from the side, nostrils from below) for intensity. The Observer's Jan Gordon observed that the big composition employed Abstraction in its jagged design, Expressionism in its mangled figures, Surrealism in its eerie details...
Shown for the first time in London was the only known portrait of Picasso, painted at the height of the Cubist movement by one of Cubism's great saints and Picasso's great friend, the late José Gonzales or "Juan Gris" (John Grey). This ex-engineering student said, "The only possible pictorial technique is a sort of flat-colored architecture," used few brilliant colors, painted his Hommage à Picasso in green, brown and grey...
...Trees (see cut) were ranked last week with those of the great arboreal Frenchman, Segonzac. Morris Kantor, who does not even try to paint in Manhattan or any place that is "emotionally overpowering." and never anywhere on grey days, eschews Surrealist or other theorizing and thinks the best way to get U. S artists over their self-consciousness is to let them alone...
...single man can be picked out as outstanding, the whole team working well, and playing as a single unit. The lineup for Kirkland was; ends, Wentworth, Digel, and Kutz; tackles, Thompson and Hurtt; guards, grey and Addington; center, Hall; backs, Foster, Silverberg, McClure, and Moore...