Word: artistical
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...florins, complacent, succulent, they swim in the glory that is grease; worshippers, gazing upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which is in reality "no more creative than a virtuoso's playing...
...alleged fact be true, it is neither extraordinary nor particularly reprehensible. Many, if not most, Italian singers have paid claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would have availed themselves of these things ? Queen Marie of Rumania uses Pond's Cream (according to advertisements...
...Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice by distributing its silver tones over the radio as she did recently (TIME, Mar. 23). Said Tetrazzini: "I don't agree that broadcasting ruins an artist's con cert value or affects her popularity...
School for Wives. Leonard Merrick wrote a novel called The House of Lynch. Stripped of Mr. Merrick's literary insulation, the wires of the plot seem a bit bare and shiny. Struggling artist, rich wife. He won't take her money; she goes home to papa. She is lonely; gives away her money, returns to struggling artist...
Last week, the Paris Society of Independent Artists opened their annual exhibition. As has been the way wherever Independents are hung, there are exhibited types of the bizarre, the raffish, the grisly. Prominent in the Paris exhibit was a canvas by Gerald Murphy, Boston artist, which took first prize for the most unusual work. This, a "mechanist" depiction of a watch, appeared to the uninitiated to be a nightmare of wheels, ratchets, gagets, dials, cogs, cotters, springs. Students of modern Art, however, criticized it because it revealed too much preoccupation with the actual mechanism of a watch, instead of considering...