Word: art
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indulged." Dressed as usual in golf togs, Willem Mengelberg leaned on two sticks as he walked along the snow-covered paths around the Roman Catholic chapel he had vowed to build if his chasa was spared in World War I. "I have never indulged in politics," he said. "My art is public property; I am not supposed to withhold it from anyone...
Overcoming All. What Queen Mary and so many other visitors admired last week was the new National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, the biggest collection of sporting art in the world. The collection, half a million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely...
...critics gently suggested, one should know a little more than that. Commented the London Daily Mail (under the headline HUNTIN', SHOOTIN' AND PAINTIN') : "Many of the prints and canvases are aesthetically worthless; more of them are to be regarded as entertaining examples of folk art equivalent to Toby jugs and samplers...
...with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ... De gustibus non est disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...
Last week, from the evidence of the De Gustibus show, it appeared that popular art appreciation in the U.S. was lagging about 60 years behind contemporary U.S. artists. Visitors to the exhibit picked William M. Harnett's morning-clear still life, Old Models (1892), as their favorite painting in the show, and gave second place to Thomas Hovenden's Breaking the Home Ties (1890), a teary scene of family parting complete with sad-eyed Rover. The 1890s were voted the favorite decade, the 1880s next, and the 1930s (where the modernist vote was massed) third...