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...question of copying masterpieces gave the U. S. art world a week's conversation. Besides the obvious question of whether slavish copying of another man's work gives a student technical training as much as it deadens his individuality and imagination, was the larger problem of whether great paintings should be copied at all. Familiarity does breed contempt. Mona Lisa is undoubtedly a great painting, but two generations of post cards, meat calendars, candy boxes and gift shoppes have spoiled it for the youth of this century...
That drama is an art cannot well be denied, and that it is therefore entitled to a place on the curriculum of Liberal Colleges naturally follows. But as the study of any art, the study of Drama should be one of self-expression and originality not of slavish imitation. In this the Yale School of Drama has, to all accounts, singularly failed. But the chief criticism of the school lies not so much in succumbing to this universal weakness as in the application of the name "Art" to a school strictly vocational in method and purpose. Yale has added more...
There is no doubt that military training fosters virtues, sadly lacking today, perhaps even in some college editors, such as a healthy respect for, but not a slavish submission to properly constituted authority...
...theme, this play is aimed at the machinations of unwholesome maternal love. Miss Frederick is called upon, in her part as the selfish mother, to frustrate her son's opportunity for adventure in business, to blight his romance with the girl he loves and, ultimately, to lose his slavish unnatural devotion. Not one scrap of her miserably written play rings true...
With his good friends the late great Robert Henri and George Wesley Bellows, George Luks began to develop a distinctive style of American painting which, if cautious, at least was no slavish imitation of the great French modernists. After the War, recognized as an important painter, Artist Luks served for four ' years as instructor in painting at the New York Art Students' League. His salty, Rabe laisian speech caused many a faculty eyebrow to rise. But few teachers have been so beloved, have so successfully inspired the students. From 1920 to 1924 he was to the Art Students...