Word: paints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with holes, apparently made by spears. Others had arrows or human hands carved on their flanks: symbols of human domination. This lent valuable support to the anthropological theory that the prehistoric cave artists did not paint and carve for amusement or esthetic satisfaction, but to provide symbols which would insure successful hunting...
Sometime around 1500 a queer Florentine named Piero, of whom it is recorded that he hated the amenities and liked anything wild, was commissioned to paint a decorative panel for the palazzo of one Giovanni Vespucci. A Rousseauist ahead of his time, Piero proceeded to turn out another painting of his favorite subject, primitive life...
...starts with a piece of canvas and literally builds his picture on it. Kantor builds with virtuosity, his favorite brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...
...Trees (see cut) were ranked last week with those of the great arboreal Frenchman, Segonzac. Morris Kantor, who does not even try to paint in Manhattan or any place that is "emotionally overpowering." and never anywhere on grey days, eschews Surrealist or other theorizing and thinks the best way to get U. S artists over their self-consciousness is to let them alone...
...Bury's warnings: 1) beware of worn upholstery; the innards may be worse; 2) don't believe speedometer mileage, look at the pedal wear; 3) a new paint job sometimes covers a multitude of sins...