Word: media
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilmington Fine Arts Society has opened in the new Wilmington Institute Library a Howard Pyle Memorial Gallery, where it has collected 267 works of Pyle in various media. One room is devoted to oil paintings, another to black and whites and sketches, a third is an exact replica of the living room in the artist's Wilmington residence. This room was notable for eight mural paintings, ceiling decorations, and a fireplace, by Pyle himself. These pictures, dealing in subject with the genesis of Art and Literature, had been damaged during a fire at the Pyle house, but have been...
...cubism, the sculptural analogue of Pablo Picasso. He represents a movement which has as yet scarcely penetrated the American consciousness, but is the dominating mode in Continental Art today. Archipenko will never have a great popular following, but he has made his reputation with artists. He experiments with bizarre media for sculpture ? glass, wood, papier-mache and paint, polished sheet-iron reflecting surrounding men and things. He uses symbolism, hieroglyphics, simplification, expresses cerebral intangibilities, "models the atmosphere" by leaving holes in matter...
This reproduction of the metallic tints in the feathers, of birds is also regarded as a distinct but minor advance ornithology, The process is based upon the utilization of light reflected through properly colored transparent media, upon which characteristic feathering is traced...
Ernest du Pont, gunpowder manufacturer : " Motoring in the dead of night on the Baltimore Pike near Media, Pa., I was suddenly confronted by a man in the road flourishing a pistol. He was dressed as a State policeman, but, suspecting treachery, I put on speed. The man jumped aside, entered a waiting car with his accomplice and gave me hot chase. They fired at me, hitting my tonneau twice. They caught up and tried to crowd me off the road. When I slowed down one bandit boarded my car, gun in hand. I flung him from the running board...
...organization, all of which may be involved in the production of the work. There is The Commercial Research Department which is highly important as the development and proper arrangement of a set of facts makes possible the right decision as regards a marketing and advertising policy. The Media Department has to do with the collecting of rates and information with regard to all the various classes of advertising media in the country, while there are also The Estimate, The Order, The Production, The Forwarding, The Auditing and The Billing Department...