Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
When Wozzeck was given in Philadelphia four winters ago, conventional operagoers shuddered at its dissonances, stamped Composer Alban Berg as a stark ultra-modernist who had little regard for beauty. Wozzeck's story was sordid. Its music was an enigma to many, though none denied its power. For six years in his home in Vienna, Composer Berg has been working on a second opera, Lulu. Boston had the first U. S. taste of it last week when Sergei Koussevitzky conducted five symphonic excerpts...