Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...express emotion, but for recreation. The motions of the human limb per se do not have aesthetic meaning for us. So that there is something a trifle anomalous in the sight of the Russian ballerina pirouetting and pointing, performing entrechats and arabesques in many a graceful convolution, all to sketch out some ethereal emotion which might better be conveyed by ten lines of print or ten bars of plain music. And as for ballet's being an "interpretation" of music; if the music accompanying a ballet is really good, it can stand on its own feet without interpretation...
...walking in the bed of a river," put on his hat, strode out of the paint factory, out of the town forever. He got an advertising job in Chicago, met Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, began writing stories himself. After two poor novels, Anderson brought out a remarkable sketch of small-town life, Winesburg, Ohio...
Could Britain take all that? By 1940 Adolf Hitler may no longer believe what he wrote in 1924. The London Daily Sketch recently attributed the following to Mein Kampf: "The British nation will ... be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted on to show that brutality and tenacity in its Government, as well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters on, no matter how long such a struggle may last, or how great the sacrifice that...
...noncriminal matters: juvenile and domestic cases, a probation system, a medical department. To familiarize themselves with its problems, the winning artists attended court sessions, including closed hearings. What leftist Artist Joe Hirsch learned left him stumped. Assigned to decorate the "F. & B." (fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...painting, handle-bar-mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...