Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge...
...London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after that we find only such fashionable virtuosos as Zuloaga and Sargent. Scripture after Rodin is almost equally neglected...
...turn which imagistic poetry has taken. With the literature of the day presenting such a multi-colored and variegated pattern, critics prone to discover new literary epochs and fresh schools of thought are under a constant source of danger. The editors of the Dial, however, by selecting this ultra-impressionist for their award, have placed their finger on a phenomenon which if not new is at least the most distinctive feature of contemporary literature...
...will open in Pittsburgh in October. In addition to paintings from Spain, England, France, Italy, Sweden, there will be shown, for the first time since the War, a group of German and Austrian pictures. On the Jury of Awards will sit Anglada y Camarasa, Spanish painter; Ernest Laurent, French impressionist; Algernon Talmage, English landscape...
...National Academy of Design, Manhattan, opened its winter exhibit, awarded prizes. Many a struggling young artist awoke, dumbfounded, to find himself knighted with a check. Among the rewarded was a famed artist whose youth and struggles have long been at an end-Childe Hassam, famed New England impressionist. Yet he, too, was dumbfounded. Receiving the Altman Prize, carrying with it $1,000, for his portrait Miss Ingram, he is said to have expressed great surprise, remarking that he thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze...