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Some respectful and some grinning, the visitors crowded around two paintings, Millet's Sower (lent by the Provident Trust Co.) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Reading from Homer. A few of the oldest and boldest confessed that Millet and Alma-Tadema still looked great to them...
Could modern art ever mean so much to so many as Millet or Alma-Tadema had? Museum Director Fiske Kimball was not taking any bets. But in a thoughtful foreword to the show he pointed out that the art of the snob of today is often that of the minority of tomorrow and the majority of the day after tomorrow: "The public, which doesn't know much about art but 'knows what it likes,' actually likes what it knows...
...high as $2 or even $3, but in China's feverishly inflated economy, the average ricksha man can buy less now than in prewar times when his income was measured in pennies. He often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha...
Conservative 19th-Century art has been sensationally bullish. Auction examples: Millet's Paysanne Revenant du Puits, $30,000; Turner's Fishmarket, $15,500; Boldini's Ladies of the First Empire, $11,000; Rosa Bonheur's En Forét, $8,000; a Corot landscape...
...image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...