Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally realistic but less pretentious and literary painters-Homer, George Inness and Thomas W. Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair, N.J. Art Museum. Painted in 1859, it is the museum's most popular picture...
Come cocktail time and she's a little fatigued from the earlier intake. So she takes several pick-me-ups." The worst offenders, she added, are dinner-party hostesses. "The overly hospitable-and, we hate to say it-many of the newly rich-instruct their servants to serve hard liquor with every course." As Editor Deshais hoped, bluebloods kicked up a rumpus over her picture of them as boozebloods. Commented clubwoman Mrs. Earl Kribben, whose husband is a Marshall Field vice president: "Drinking Scotch or bourbon with the main course would be like going to a dinner party...
...facilitate the exchange of ideas, the alumni have set up a "workshop program" in which men connected with the University instruct alumni workers in the rudiments of college administration. "The workshop deals mainly with some of the mechanics of running a large university, for example, the awarding of prizes and scholarships," Pratt concluded...
...Nehru's modern India would like to change Shakta customs. The government has sent community development officers into the villages to instruct the Shaktas in modern farming and hygiene and to teach them to read and write. The government men noted that the ancient stone pillars embedded in stone rings -phallic symbols worshiped by the Shaktas-were gathering moss in some villages, and the officials concluded confidently that the old practices were...
...pictures relate to no particular school or fashion, carry no message. They are not meant to stun, dazzle, or instruct the viewer, but simply to be enjoyed. Gerassi clearly enjoyed painting each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty...