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Página 1605 - They (his paintings) have been compared to the fantastic and often truly marvelous drawings of the insane who live in a world of the mind far removed from circumstantial reality .... The child, the primitive man, the lunatic, the subconscious mind, all these artistic sources (so recently appreciated by civilized taste} offer valuable commentary upon Klee's method.
Página 1606 - ... their hearts will never know, When I picked the first big nugget from my pan. It's still my dream, my dauntless dream, that drives me forth once more To seek and starve and suffer in the Vast; That heaps my heart with eager hope, that glimmers on before My dream that will uplift me to the last. Perhaps I am stark crazy, but there's none of you too sane; It's just a little matter of degree.
Página 1349 - an actual scene in the War for the Union," and says that it "has attracted more attention and with the exception of some inadequacy in color, won more praise than any genre picture by a native hand that has appeared of late years.
Página 1606 - London in the early part of this year (1930), and who has gone away almost intoxicated with the splendour of Italian genius in the time of the Renaissance, must feel a kind of horror and stupefaction at the revolting productions of the modernist school, which resemble now the work of a very unpleasant child, now the first efforts of an African savage, and now the delirious hallucinations of an incurable lunatic.
Página 1274 - Exhibition of the New York Water Color Club, and the American Water Color Society, I found my name in the catalogue. "I am a retiring old lady and hate newspaper notoriety, but it was 'tlirust upon
Página 1608 - In broad daylight, without make-up, his performance seems sterile and useless, — a sort of free performance before the tent, done to attract visitors." Can it be possible that this refers to the same man of whom one of the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art writes in a current catalogue, "as an inventor Edison pales into thin air beside him.
Página 1418 - ... was the very reverse of temperance, and his excesses seem to have hastened his end. According to Wood he retired to Durham (under the influence of a disease which he never shook off) in July 1655. Such was the premature end of John Hall, who seems to have had credit given him by his contemporaries not so much for what he had done as for what he was...
Página 1616 - I? and the artists, probably, to love American painting more .... It is better to speak of the present effectiveness of French propaganda upon our collectors and painters. It will, of course, pass .... Now we must play with the gay boys, the fashionables, who know all the pigmental slang, are aware of all the painted ban mots or of, perhaps this is simpler, the day's arabesques.
Página 1418 - He knew what he wanted to say and how to say it, and what he had to say was a very lovely interpretation of nature in her most attractive forms.
Página 1616 - ... or of, perhaps this is simpler, the day's arabesques. '"It is unfortunate that they are already beginning to be too familiar; unfortunate when one remembers the time and money spent on them. . . . The Franco-realists, for one good thing, will stop painting bovine females with uncrossable legs. . . . Did Jules Pascin begin it? It is repeated all over Europe, and by many young Americans learned in European ways and visions.

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