Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Paul Meyerheim, a painter of animals, was last week seen puffing smoke at a caged bear. Said he: "I once got a lion to pose for me by blowing a load of snuff tobacco into his nose. . . . He got up, sneezed with infinite pleasure and then posed...
Women have yet to equal men as masters of the fine arts. They have aspired to them, plodded away at them, had very creditable results in occasional instances. They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against...
...aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings from getting out of the country. No government...
...addition to their intrinsic merit as works of art, they have been produced as illustrations of the theories which Dr. Ross has developed in his scientific study of colour, representation and design, and which he has published in his well-known books, On Drawing and Painting, and The Painter's Palette. It is obvious, at once, that these two points of view and interests are really one. It is because of Dr. Ross understanding of the craft of painting, and because of the consistent and intelligent application of his theory of design that he has produced work of such unusual...
...practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief, of full relief, and of realistic representation of what we see as we see it. His idea is that the modern painter may use one or another of these modes as it serves his purpose. To understand these modes we must study the work of the masters, in which we find not only our modes but our standards...