Word: painters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frida Rivera's esteem for her house guest, Exile Leon Trotsky, antedates but probably does not surpass André Breton's. From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...
When the new building of the U. S. Department of Labor was opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography...
...Lipponcott ($3.50). "Sky Hooks" are round hooks to hang painter's scaffolding...
...more sensible: unworried self-limitation and severity on the part of reviewers. Last week there were about 80 exhibitions of painting, sculpture and graphic arts in Manhattan, of which just one newcomer demanded serious discrimination. This was a collection of drawings and paintings by a 27-year-old Milwaukee painter named Paul Lewis Clemens, announced with some fanfare as a "discovery" of University of Wisconsin's resident-artist, John Steuart Curry...
...only upon looking at German watercolors that the question of the value of these artists arises. The German contemporary painter seems to delight in broad washes of bright color. It seems that only here does their technique begin to break down. Take Karl Zerbe's "Still Life" for instance. In this picture there are wide paths of color applied with a large brush, and all the interest of the artist is primarily in contrasting and mixing shades. The lemons on the table are lacking in form, and the glass is nothing but an outline of white. The whole has little...