Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures two years ago through Director Alfred H. Barr Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art, she didn't have a nickel for the subway ride up town...
...free designs at the expense of buildings actually erected, cities actually built under varying conditions in the U. S. S. R. Roughhewn, meditative Architect Gropius, a continual smoker of 5? miniature cigars, has made himself popular at Harvard by teaching a practical esthetic. Resenting architectural "styles" whether ancient or modern, he has established a new basis for instruction on Bauhaus principles: a thorough knowledge of building materials, training in three-dimensional rather than "paper" thinking, actual work under a contractor...
...parody. But a poser for parodists is that rare kind of art which, while apparently too screwy to be endured, is too subtle to be burlesqued. In this class were two noteworthy exhibitions of paintings in Manhattan last week. Both were highly admired by artists and students familiar with modern art. Each provided exhilarating exercise for eyes trained on visual commonplaces. Because nine out of ten people want about as much exercise from painting as they want from a warm bath, neither artist was likely to become popular with the man-in-the-street. But it was extremely improbable that...
...Architect Walter Gropius at Weimar, later Dessau, Germany, Klee was for nine years one of three artist-instructors in painting.*Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace in Berne, Switzerland, to paint, play Mozart with his wife, study nature. Last week's show at Manhattan's Buchholz...
...Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius' success is a requirement soon to be adopted by the Harvard Architectural School: that no student can graduate unless he has had six months' hard labor on a real construction...