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...except John D. Rockefeller, who sips milk). The Mexican Minister of Finance is pic tured eating gold pieces. Little is the recognition given these crea tions; no color reproductions of them have been made. Yet, according to Lee Simonson, who has lately visited Russia to inspect the work of modernist painters, who is familiar with con temporary German, French, U. S. artists: "Rivera is the most impor tant artist living today. He means as much to the modern world as Giotto did to the Renaissance.* He is the culmination, the full development of the modernist movement...
...bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed-boat king-to his list...
...Modernist noses are elevated at any mention of Raphael Sanzio. It is fashionable, in some circles, to prefer the austerities and twisted imperfections of painters who, as they say, "knew less and hence could feel more," the pre-Raphael primitives. But the "modernists" of today are the conservatives of tomorrow. Painter Raphael's fame has never been any more gravely beclouded than was his princely young life, which, beginning at the ducal court of Urbino where his painter-father enjoyed generous patronage, was strewn with the gold of rulers and the blandishments of their women, in Perugia, Florence, Rome...
Varied schools of music will be introduced by the Boston Symphony orchestra in its concert at Sanders Theatre tonight. Beethoven, the classicist, Brahms, the romanticist, and Moussorgsky, the modernist, will be represented on the program...
Professor Mather of the University Department of Physiography will maintain that the two branches of thought are easily reconcilable Professor Mather has acquired recognition as a modernist bu his contention that the theory of evolution is not contrary to the Book of Genesis but explains it more fully...