Word: artistical
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...drawings are the very happy result of a summer spent by the artist visiting the English cathedrals. Those who saw last autumn's exhibition at the Fogg Museum and remember the fine accuracy and firm precision of Mr. Conant's rendering of Spanish buildings will be charmed with his version of Lincoln, Durham and Wells as ever they were with Palma or Availa. And that is saying a great deal for not only were Mr. Conant's Spanish drawings almost poignantly beautiful, but the architecture of those sun-flooded towns south of the Pyrenees if of itself more stimulating, more...
...exposition of its issues, nor an account of the typical spirit of the American army. He believes the war a just and righteous one; but a picture of it does not require a lot of foot-notes to that effect by Mr. George Creel. Like any artist worthy of the name, Mr. Dos Passos has attempt a portrayal of the truth about human life from a given and necessarily limited point of view, striving always for unity of purpose and expression...
...plainly the point of view of the particular individuals in "Three Soldiers" which has aroused the ire of your reviewer. How long since an artist has been compelled by any canon of literature to choose for his creatures only paragons of virtue? Have we not had cur war books from the point of view of those who gloried in the slaughter, the propaganda attempts to make war attractive, the sort of thing which is perfectly "safe" to issue in wartime, at least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what...
...Bronze", from the French of Kistmaeeker. Whoever was present at the opening performance could not but have been impressed with the high standard set by some of our leading emotional actors and actresses. A finely balanced company, exceptionally well cast, wrung from the marital unfaithfulness of a young artist (why is it they are so frequently artists) every possible ounce of its somewhat standardized sentiment. In a set which was well conceived, though badly lighted in the second act, the whole company moved with that machine like smoothness which is at once the delight and the bane of the initiated...
...etchings by Seymour Haden, the "Shere Mill Pond" and "Sunset in Ireland" are particularly beautiful impressions of favorite plates of this famous English surgeon-artist...