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...paintings. Comparatively naturalistic artists such as Cézanne and Van Gogh get a worshipfully warm reception, the museum says, and for Salvador Dali, whose surrealism depends on meticulous realism, "the audience has an especial place in its heart." Even Picasso is admired for his early "blue period" and neo-classical pictures...
That was in the morning. In the afternoon, Friend Brinton was consulted by a Chinese student about his studies in Neo-Platonism. Two relief workers consulted him about D.P. camps in Austria to which they had been assigned. At 4:30, a term paper on U.S. cooperatives was read and pondered. In the evening there was a lecture on the philosophy of Quakerism. It was a typical day in the life of Director of Studies Brinton and of Pendle Hill...
Edward D. McDougal III '48 captured the George B. Schier Prize of $250 for an essay entitled "The Ideal of Neo-classic Poetic Diction: Translation and the Homeric Model." Honorable mention went to Eleanor M. Millard, Radcliffe '48, Richard Haven '50, and Arthur W. J. Becker...
...brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left off-to paint, in a traditional way, the cracked shells of European civilization. They were the "Neo-Romantics...
Sharing the neo-classical sentiment of the period, Wedgwood called his factory "Etruria," and kept a stable of designers in Rome to copy new relics for him as soon as they were dug up. His pet employee, John Flaxman, whom he reserved for designing plaques, intaglios and ornamental urns, sometimes surpassed the classic models...