Word: print
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have aesthetic meaning for us. So that there is something a trifle anomalous in the sight of the Russian ballerina pirouetting and pointing, performing entrechats and arabesques in many a graceful convolution, all to sketch out some ethereal emotion which might better be conveyed by ten lines of print or ten bars of plain music. And as for ballet's being an "interpretation" of music; if the music accompanying a ballet is really good, it can stand on its own feet without interpretation. If it isn't good, dressing it up with a lot of arty toe-dancing doesn...
Ickes: You are implying that a newspaper, in order to be free, has to print sewage, aren...
...Sarajevo (Leo Films) is 8,100 feet of celluloid whose recent peregrinations have been as exciting as any it could possibly put on the screen. Completed in February 1940, it lay idle in studio vaults, then opened in Brussels three weeks before the Nazis appeared. They quickly burned all prints but one because of its sympathetic treatment of the Habsburgs. In mid-May it began a Paris run, lasted until the Nazi occupation 26 days later when again the prints were burned. The one unburned Brussels print was smuggled to England, flown to Canada and fashionably released last fortnight...
...York University, began working with silk screen on a WPA art project. He uses a stencil cut out of a plastic, or built up with glue, on fine bolting silk, through which paint is squeegeed and imprinted on paper. For each color a separate stencil is used. An average print takes from four to ten stencils...
Silk-screen artists who have exhibited thus far (most of them WPAsters, few of them well known) learned the technique directly or indirectly from Artist Velonis, who left WPA last year to open his own studio. Silk-screen prints show a great variety of texture, may look like transparent water colors, opaque or transparent oils, powdery pastels, gouaches. Some high-priced artists, like Thomas Benton and Georges Schreiber, tried silk screen and gave it up because they felt the result looked too much like reproductions. But Adolf Dehn, able draftsman, works in silk screen, last week showed an amusing print...