Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sophisticates of smart Berlin and worldly Hamburg have witnessed and applauded, during the past month, a modernist farce in which an actor programmed as God waddles upon the stage in plus fours, shakes cocktails for his cackling crony St. Peter, and holds hands upon a sofa with Mary Magdalene...
...later the great German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today Old Max may be labeled and pigeonholed as the "German Millet," an essentially bygone master, whom screeching modernist-art has left behind. Millet painted The Angelus, and The Gleaners. Old Max Liebermann has done Women Plucking Geese, An Asylum for Old Men, The Flax Spinners-and recently The Polo Team...
...daily, syndicated 600-word sermons reached 20,000,000 readers. They have been collected in 45 volumes. Dr. Crane's estimated annual income was $150,000. "If you should ask me," he wrote, "whether I am a Trinitarian or a Unitarian, a Catholic or a Protestant, Fundamentalist or Modernist, Methodist or Baptist, you might as well ask if I am a Guelph or a Ghibelline...
...They read the names Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, all in one announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother...