Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost as confusing to young art students as Monet and Manet are Pisano, Picasso and Pissarro. Niccola Pisano (1206-80) was a famed sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. Hulking Pablo Picasso, at 54, remains the highest priced of all modernist painters. Camille Pissarro was the French Impressionist who looked like Monet. Last week the firm of Durand-Ruel, which has had almost a monopoly on Impressionist paintings for 50 years, gave at its Manhattan galleries the most complete one-man show of Pissarro's paintings the U. S. has seen...
...Gogh, a crazy, ecstatic, modernist-ahead-of-his-time who never received more than $85 for a painting during his lifetime, often starved himself so that be could buy his materials, to paint the pictures people thought worthless at the time. Recently one of these "worthless" canvases sold...
...English sea chanties, there are to be sung two new compositions, one by Igor Markevitch, and the other by Randall Thompson '20. Markevitch is a young Russian now resident in Paris whose only vocal work, the "Cantate", is to be performed in part by the Glee Club. The other modernist, Randall Thompson, is a Harvard graduate and recent lecturer in these parts, whose latest composition, "The Peaceable Kingdom", in receiving its initial performance by the joint chorus on Tuesday evening...
...scene was atrocious. Mr. Gatti-Casazza personally assured me of his entire disapproval of it, and the whole staff despised it. I was informed that the Metropolitan had pledged itself to an experiment in modernist sets, and that they had regrettably tried it out on my opera, which, as any reader of the libretto could see, required a setting both realistic and decorative...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...