Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer gained popularity, and justly so, because of his unusual technical facility, and his paintings prove him to be a fine craftsman. Really good art, however, does not consist in mere excellence of handling a give medium. Homer uses color well, and his paintings are beautiful, but there is no mark of actual and reverberating content in his work. Marin, on the other hand, with his contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves...
...Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize something called American Nationalists, Inc., which he endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George Rice" told Dudley Gilbert eye-popping stories about the coming revolution. Dudley Gilbert hastened to build himself a retreat in the fastnesses...
Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet...
...only because the donor feels that it is unsalable. Such concert-goers may be entirely right at times, for free concerts are sometimes merely trying grounds for new music and new performers. But, on the other hand, one should always remember that a sincere artist, considering himself an interpretative medium, is always eager to pass his music on to an appreciative audience and that he will do so whenever he can. The ideal concert situation is that in which the artist performs for his own pleasure, and for the pleasure of those who may care to come and hear, music...
...advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth serious consideration because of their intrinsic value as works of art. Such a one is Homer's watercolor, "The Berry Pickers," in which the artist's skill in using the watercolor medium to bring out the brightness of the sky on a hot summer day can be clearly seen and appreciated...