Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Venetian. At the Metropolitan, the Old Master of the year continued to make news after a triumphant first U. S. exhibition last month at the Chicago Art Institute.* This was the 18th-Century Venetian, Giambattista Tiepolo, a full-blown baroque virtuoso far removed from the devout art of the Middle Ages. Not half so rich in paintings as the Chicago show, the Metropolitan's boasted more of Tiepolo's round, rapid sketches and one of his ceilings, famed for the azure into which he tossed swirling goddesses, angels and garlands of cherubs to float upward, bottoms down...
Unlike many modernist composers, 42-year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...Miami, Bill Green desperately tried to make up his mind whether to rush to Washington to make a personal defense. If the miners kick him out, he will be left with an honorary card given him as a one-finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
...their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school in 1861. He drew his painstaking pictures of Julius Caesar, a stage coach, an Indian chief in his copy book (see cut) between exercises such as 300 lines of "Is intemperance a greater evil than slavery...
...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...