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...elaborate sculptural reliefs. Abstractionist Feininger's subject matter was also recognizable, but his ships and buildings looked, when he was through with them, like earthquakes viewed through a shattered plate-glass window. Abstractionist Kandinsky ran the gamut from fairly conventional, mosaic-like landscapes to amoebic shapes painted on plaster-like surfaces. Most typical Kandinskys were in crescents and triangles, resembled an explosion in a kaleidoscope factory. Abstractionist Miro had littered potato-sack burlap with insectile, wire-worky lines, spots and doodads. Miro's titles were less abstract than his pictures. Samples: A Drop of Dew Falling from...
...exhibition last fortnight at Boston's big Museum of Fine Arts, this fragile limestone and plaster bust of Prince Ankh-haef of ancient Egypt had to be put in a special airconditioned showcase, because changes of humidity might crumble it. Every day Associate Curator Dows Dunham, of the Museum's Egyptian Department, checked temperature and humidity (see cut) to see how Ankh-haef was getting along. The ancient Egyptian bust was part of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of portraiture ever assembled. Ranging from such 4,550-year-old items to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh, the exhibition...
Martin du Card had a home in Normandy when the Germans broke into France last year. With his wife, who had a broken arm and shoulder in a plaster cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...
Visitors at the Manhattan show were especially impressed with a bulgy plaster elephant done by 52-year-old Clara Crampton, who, blind from birth, had never seen one. Other Manhattan blind sculptors had made statues of an armchair, a cat, a fisherman, a violinist. One had even managed a mother and child. The Lighthouse had expected to put price tags on the works and raise a little extra cash for the artists by selling them. But the blind sculptors flatly objected. Not one was willing to part with her sculpture, at any price...
...laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical College, formerly known as Yale-in-China...