Word: modernist
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...very rudimentary, intensely feminine paintings of gesticulating figures, dreamlike landscapes, surrealistic enigmas, glimpses of children's games. Some of the canvases looked as if they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
Abraham Walkowitz, 64, is himself an artist, largely self-taught. Born in Russia, bred in Brooklyn, he is an uncompromising modernist, claims that he was the first modern artist in America. Until his current show, he was chiefly known for his 20-year series of some thousands of drawings of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan. To this day Artist Walkowitz will give one of these line drawings to anybody who he thinks has the right feeling about Isadora...
With these words, London's National Gallery Director Sir Kenneth Clark introduced to the U.S. England's foremost modernist sculptor, Henry Moore, 44. His recent drawings, packed into two tubes and sent by Clipper, were on view last week at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery. The drawings, suggestive of his sculpture, were mostly of figures. For years Moore has been famous in Britain for sculpture as unorthodox and experimental as Pablo Picasso's painting...
...Modernist poetry constitutes, in its entirety, a piecemeal bible of human guilt. In some of the bible's sections-T. S. Eliot's poems, for instance-human guilt appears as a world poison emanating from mankind's sins against God. Other modernist poets leave God, for all practical purposes, out of the picture. Human guilt, in their books, is simply the poisonous sum of people's transgressions against other people and against themselves. But whether the modernist poets speak as religionists or as non-religionists, they all seem to be trying to say that the world...
...young U.S. poets who add new chapters to the modernist testimony are Karl Jay Shapiro, 29, and Randall Jarrell, 28. Shapiro, drafted into the army in 1941, is on duty as a sergeant somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Baltimore-born, poverty-wise, he is a Jew who has lived outside the pale in a democracy that often proudly kids itself that it erects no pales. At the University of Virginia, which he attended only long enough to leave in disgust, he decided that