Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete and the straight-laced scholar can be reached is being very successfully proven by Leverett House. Its persistent attempts to remove art from the closet atmosphere of a gallery and place it within the warm and friendly precincts of a comfortable room deserve loud acclamation...
...chief purpose of the author is to describe and discuss the function of the magazine as a medium or a genuinely democratic literature and as an immediate expression of the interests of the nation, its politics, amusements, fashions, rages and crazes, economics and education...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...
...Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point of view. Three paintings by Prescott Jones contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example of the effect of the wants color medium when used in its proper sphere which is especially appropriate when an effect of many colored variations of light and dark is desired...
...Water Color Painters is presenting pictures by contemporary and late 19th century artists which will be exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts until May 14. This collection, containing more than 400 separate pieces, is a sparkling example of the varied and divergent possibilities of the water-color medium. There are so many high-points of artistic value, so many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing...