Word: styling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the material of America. Benton has never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
...critics went down like ninepins. Her 26 paintings at the Valentine Gallery, all done in the last two years, showed a quality which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive...
Love would made no prediction on the outcome of the M. I. T. race except to state that they would be an unknown quantity. However, their past record and unorthodox style indicates that they should not constitute a serious threat so early in the season...
...peak of his feats is requesting somebody from the audience to pick five notes--any five notes on the piano--which he will weave into an original melody, and at further demand, play that melody in the style of Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, or anybody else handy. Try cooking up a melody sometime out of just a few notes with no preconceived notion of how they should fall, and Templeton's things become just a little baffling...
Individual and small-scale tutoring existed until the 1930's in the Widow style', pursued by such men as E. Gordon Parker '96, now of the Parker-Cramer School, and Fletcher Briggs, whose method remained unchanged during the tutoring revolution...