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...color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand is great enough, color television can be in the U.S. home...
...exhibition that belatedly introduced Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Rouault, Braque and Picasso to the U.S. public-Manhattan's Armory Show in 1913 -also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart Davis to change his ways. Today Stuart Davis, who looks somewhat like a shy bulldog, is among the few painters to translate Paris abstractionism into a jazzy U.S. idiom...
...paintings: three Monets-River Scene on the Seine "with Barges, Rustic Landscape, Monceau Park; two Sisleys-Seine at Argenteuil, Thames at Hampton Court; Renoir's Woman at her Toilet; Degas' Seated Nude Brushing her Hair; Cezanne's Mont Victoire; Van Gogh...
Opening-nighters, strolling through an atmosphere of suave showmanship, got a strong impression that modernism's most resounding salvos are still being fired by French-school painters long dead (Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh) or artists now aging (Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse...
...house twice as much again as the current show - came such familiar modern land marks as French Primitive Henri Rousseau's haunting, tactile Sleeping Gypsy, Pablo Picasso's monumental, screeching, early cubist Young Women of Avignon (painted in 1906-07 and considered the first cubist picture), Van Gogh's swirling Starry Night. Art lovers who looked for samples of what the Museum is buying today, or accepting as gifts, found...