Word: linear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuff. Until 1917, each side attacked or defended linear fronts. In attack their tendency was to stretch and strain. On defense they tended to crack. Sent to the rear, Colonel Lossberg proceeded to construct a new kind of major fortification, based on zonal defense. He built what the Allies called the Hindenburg Line. It was not Hindenburg's and it was not a line. The Germans called it the Siegfried Stellung (Siegfried Position...
...which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include several items not visible at Knoedler...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
Hung on opposite walls are masterpieces of the painter's early and middle styles: Lady at the Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir...
...Liebermann matures, his style becomes more and more linear, the tonality becomes lighter and a freshness and power of draftsmanship appears. Prints of horse racing and polo games illustrate masterful drawing and a vigorous rendering of figures in violent motion...