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...Critic Cortissoz coolly and continually insists that excellent technique, often branded by other critics as mere facility or the superficial finesse resulting from laborious routine, is an absolutely essential basis for all fine art worthy of the name. He finds in the late George Bellows, famed for his dramatic depiction of prizefighters, an example of a modern U. S. artist whose art is securely grounded in this respect. In his new book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall...
Thus it seemed particularly appropriate to find Critic Cortissoz beginning this week with a lecture on "Technique" at the Metropolitan. For although the Metropolitan courteously admits to its rostra lecturers who flay its conservative policies, including even vitriolic Critic Walter Pach (TIME. Dec. 17, 1928), it must happily welcome so able a champion as Critic Cortissoz...
...frequently complained that the Metropolitan owns only one Cezanne and has recently kept it out of sight; naturally this can bring no great woe to Critic Cortissoz. Nor must he feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On the other hand, idling along its corridors, he may visit many collections greatly to his liking. There is an extensive U. S. group. The Italian collection is noteworthy, including a Tiepolo ceiling and a roomful of Primitives among which is an Aretino and a Segna di Bonaventura. There may also be seen...
...Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great as the major European museums, but undeniably important.* Those who completely subscribe to Critic Cortissoz's beliefs will find little if any ground for complaint...
...Tribune). He likes music (Wagner and Beethoven preferred), collects books, and is addicted to golf, about which he has humorously philosophized in a volume called Nine Holes of Golf. His wife Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz has written on musical subjects, is co-editor of the Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Columbia, Wesleyan, Union, Amherst, innumerable clubs. He has no official connection with the Metropolitan Museum, but is an honorary fellow of that institution, as well as of the American Institute of Architects. Other Cortissoz books: Augustus Saint Gaudens; John La Farge...