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Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New York. All brought essentially the same promise: instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored...
...water lilies in the pond beside his house in a last great effort to capture "something impossible in rippling waters with tall grass undulating in the sun." Looking at Monet's masterful brushwork, his lyrical blending of earth, water and sky into a single composition, French Painter Andre Masson called the completed set of canvases "The Sistine Chapel of impressionism." It is one of this superb series that now hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Whatever the gimmick, Frenchmen of all walks of life were enthusiastic about the strip. "I support the striptease out of admiration for female loveliness and respect for human dignity," boomed 73-year-old Professor Edmond Heuze of the Beaux Arts Academy. "It's better," said Amateur Champion Yvette Masson, a typist, "than being cooped up in an office...
...scholarly interest suitable for presentation to the varied Commencement audience. Graduation audiences sometimes number up to 10,000 people. The following committee members will receive suggestions of students who might be urged to compete: Professors Charles S. Burwell, Bruce C. Hopper '18, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Robert L. Masson, Frederick C. Packard, Jr., John H. VanVleck, Mr. Powell H. Cabot, and Dr. David M. Little...
Paris evidently thought there was. Masson's last show there was all but sold...