Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already look healthier. With good soil and modern methods, they surpassed their own food needs the first year...
...zanne would doubtless be shocked by the modern artists who paint from imagination-and most of whom (Picasso, Braque and Duchamp) credit him with showing the way. For him, nature was everything, in spite of the fact that what he kept seeing in nature was, he insisted, "the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all put into perspective...
...reason for this strange state of affairs is that the empty Copacabana apartments, like many others in the great modern buildings that line Rio's beaches and stalk its hillsides (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), are owned by speculators who have no intention of becoming landlords. Tax laws are on the side of the speculator. The only real-estate tax an owner pays is 10% on rental value, established after an apartment is completed-and a stepladder in an entrance hall is evidence enough that the building is not yet done...
Never was art more "modern." Some of the pictures were mere dabs, streaks and splashes of color; others showed impossible animals and people with grinning Balloon heads on stick bodies wobbling up out of knee-high skyscrapers. There were "abstractions" made of pasted scraps and bits of string; portraits of black-mustached papas; princesses sitting between curtains of golden hair; fish flying over ocean liners; a pink & purple Christmas tree, and multicolored cowboys lassoing long-horned swirls of mud. Yet few visitors to the show in Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last week indignantly asserted that their kids...
...pictures had the sort of eye-widening freshness which modern artists are apt to try for and miss (as these same kids would, a few years later). Three Men under Williamsburg Bridge, by ten-year-old Walter Kmeta, looked like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City...