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Boldini died in 1931 at the age of 88, blandly unaffected by the storms that had rent the art world since the century began. Among the storms was the "Blue Rider" group, which Vasily Kandinsky and Franz Marc founded in 1911. They extended their hands to all modern artists whose art followed no particular line, but grew "out of inner necessity." As a result, they became associated with all the master rebels of their day-men who were churning up the rules of perspective, blasting out the innards of form, melting down the image to unrecognizable shapes. Manhattan...
Kandinsky's place as a founder of modern abstraction is obvious. No one knows what the extent of Marc's influence might have been had he not been killed at the age of 36 in World War I. His first paintings were based on the theme of the animal in harmony with all creation. He later arranged idealized shapes of pure color in such a way that each canvas seemed to have its own jagged rhythm. But what he left behind was more than a technical achievement; it was an enchanted world, half sophisticated, half childlike, of animals...
Disagreeing with Russo, Marc Slotnik '64 repeatedly stressed that "NSA is 95 per cent non-political." At one point he exclaimed "I don't even care if one of our representatives is a racist, the important thing is his qualifications as a person...
...MARC J. ROBERTS '64 is chairman of the National Executive Committee of NSA. His views in this article are strictly his own and do not necessarily represent those of the CRIMSON...
Arguing for a closed meeting, Marc A. Slotnick '64 charged that "in the last HCUA election there was distortion and slander which made the Council look very bad." He contended further that a closed meeting would enable Council members to be less constrained in expressing their opinions about the candidates...