Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls himself "the Vermillionaire" because of all bright colors he likes the reds best. Vermilion was therefore the predominant color in the most vivid art exhibition of the season which opened last week at New York's Marie Harriman Gallery. On view were a succession of carefully drawn studies that might be landscapes, trees, sky, the ends of old houses and narrow streets, but were actually elaborately conceived studies in pure color, psychologically akin to the huge abstractions of Pablo Picasso...
...prove the rule. For it is questionable how much a man learns in a book that will remain with him a decade or so after graduation. But what any man remembers is those with whom he has come into close contact. The closer the contact, the longer, and more vivid, the remembrance. The Tutorial System fills two functions: academic and, for want of a better name, social. To jeopardize the latter, which in the long run is the more valuable, would be a false and actually crippling economy...
Thomas Benton has filled scores of note books with sketches of the U. S. scene which eventually find their way into his work. He boasts that all his burlesque queens, stevedores, Negroes, preachers, and college professors are actual persons. His vivid portraits of them are fast becoming collectors' items and the cost of Bentons has been steadily rising since the Navy put him on the right artistic track. Last week, Thomas Benton, who is usually jolly, had a special reason to be cheerful. He sold his oil, Cotton Town (see reproduction), to Marshall Field...
...exalted spirit of Nurhachi, first of the Manchu Emperors, has appeared to His Majesty as he knelt in prayer. The image of the mighty Ancestor appeared vivid and distinct to the living Emperor. The spirit signified by gesture that the enthronemert of His Majesty is known to and approved by all his ancestors who sat on the Throne in Peking. The vision vanished as swiftly as it came...
...from government archeologists who have been excavating the forgotten city of Stobi, founded by the Greeks 2,400 years ago, a beehive of art and learning under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar...