Word: modernist
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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...
When it comes to a painting, Iowa gets right down to fundamentals. It divides all pictorial art into two simple classes: "Conservative" which looks like what it is supposed to be and "Modernist," which does not. Last year the "Conservatives" were indignant when a "Modernist" won the Art Salon sweepstakes prize. This year they managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone...
...Rockefeller's Center has had great ructions with such modernist artists as Diego Rivera (TIME, May 22, 1933 et seq.). The classical Piccirillis are precisely after the Rockefeller heart...
Maurice Vlaminck, modernist painter, told the three judges with a defiant air: "Mere nakedness does not shock...
...unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find out that its high-handed tactics have at last awakened the Church to Modernist tyranny...