Word: art
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruddy, kindly face, under its cap of cropped grey hair, gave no hint that he was joking, and he wasn't, though in the old days he had been one of the foremost pranksters of the Dada school of art which preceded surrealism. Dada, said Arp in a recently published book of his writings (On My Way; Wittenborn, Schultz, $4.50), "gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that his bells began to buzz, his safes frowned and his honors broke out in spots...
...hose who looked at them long enough might be willing to grant his carvings a calm, impersonal sort of beauty like that of odd-shaped pebbles on a beach. In On My Way, Arp had hit upon a deceptively simple justification for his own work and for abstract art in general. Art, said he, should be as natural as the fruits of the earth, "but whereas the fruit of a plant never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit, the artistic fruit of a man generally shows a ridiculous resemblance to the appearance of other things...
...last five years? Museum officials had little hope of ever finding out. But of one thing they were certain. Whether or not conscience played a part in the return of the painting, the thief had been in possession of a minor treasure that was not negotiable: the world art market had been alerted to watch out for Saint Thomas, and it could not have been sold without almost certain arrest...
...youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students off by teaching them to draw straight lines and freehand letters...
Composer-Lyricist Porter is a loyal patron of his own art because, after writing the songs for 22 shows and nine movies, he is still just a little stagestruck. He also combines genuine modesty about his work with an amateur's enthusiasm for hearing it played and sung by first-rate professionals. At the opening performance of Kiss Me, Kate four weeks ago, he turned up in evening dress and settled himself happily down front in the midst of his large, glittering party. He was the picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers...