Word: painting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since this statement still seemed a trifle cryptic, smart reporters decided to look in their office encyclopaedia and see what Old Max had painted. Persons of superior culture know that he chose to paint subjects lashed and gored by Fate-the poor, the orphaned, the aged and desolate. For years Max Liebermann haunted the orphanages, asylums and old people's homes of Amsterdam and 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...
...Rembrandt van Rijn sat down to paint his own picture. Often had he done it before; often was he to do it again. Most profound artists are introverts, seekers of their own devious mysteries. In the mirror Rembrandt studied his greenish, fur-lined cloak, his quietly folded hands. But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that...
Many questioning patrons of Widener. Library will be made glad by the remarks quoted in this issue of the CRIMSON in regard to the mural decorations of the main stairway. Few Harvard men are able to avoid at least a weekly head-on exposure of these paintings and many of them are daily made to speculate upon the meaning concealed in the curiously flat expanse of paint that overlooks the turn of the stair. The more energetic and intellectually curious of its observers have no doubt many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts...
...iridescent landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, madman. When he had no brushes he squirted paint from his color tubes. Insanely he attacked Gauguin with a razor, then lopped off one of his own ears, sent it in an envelope to a bordello. He died by his own hand...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...