Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newport, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's exhibition of 15 pieces of sculpture, ranging from small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...generations hardy Chinese fishermen have nosed their little junks into the treacherous South China Sea, headed for the small group of uninhabited coral atolls known as the Paracel Islands. On these reefs, located 300 miles south of the China coast and 250 miles east of French Indo-China (see map, p. 15), they flip over big. basking turtles, collect birds' nests to be shipped to the mainland where they are made into China's famed soups...
...their work, unsigned, together. They shared the subsequent outcry when the distorted figures and "unnatural" color of their painting shocked Germany. The boldest of them was irascible, 25-year-old Ernst Kirchner, who had been inspired by primitive art he had seen at the Dresden Ethnological Museum. Before the group broke up in 1913, its name, Die Brücke (The Bridge), had become famous, it had been joined by some of Germany's most promising younger artists, and it was credited by art historians with having founded the movement known as German expressionism...
...concertgoers and gallery gawpers were already used to the dissonances of modernist music and the distortions of modernist painting. But U. S. dance audiences were familiar only with romantic ballet and the rose-garlanded capers of "interpretive dancers." Shocked by this backwardness of the U. S. dance, a group of younger U. S. dancers decided that something ought to be done to bring it up to date. To these reformer-minded dancers, sex appeal, pretty costumes, toe technique were not enough. They wanted to express and depict serious things, to comment on present-day problems...
They wrote Were We Guinea Pigs?* said the 55 authors, aged 17 to 18, because progressive education "is often misunderstood." In clear though slightly stiff language they told who they were (with charts)-a group with better than average intelligence, most with family incomes over $4,000. They also described their teachers-"a very unusual collection. . . . One gentleman spends his summers paddling around Europe in a canoe. . . . We have fine co-operation among our faculty. Some of our teachers have got along together so well that they have married...