Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dock. Her machinery and hull were unharmed, but delicate Louis XVI salons and cabins went up in curling smoke. They have not been replaced. Instead the Paris has been completely made over in the new style of Paris-L'Art modern, which U. S. citizens call "Modernist...
...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
...Manhattan last week it became known that Modernist Composer George Antheil and Writer John Erskine were planning to collaborate on an opera, the heroine to be Helen of Troy. Composer Antheil, a native of Trenton, N. J., began his musical career in Paris, returned to the U. S. in 1927, won notoriety with his Ballet Mécanique scored for ten pianos, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy...