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Augustus John on the British Homefront (Vanity Fair, 1916)A war-time interview with the Welsh painter Augustus John (1878 - 1961). Clive Bell on Andre Derain (The New Republic, 1921)
Clive Bell (1869-1964) was an art critic who is remembered today as one of the most devoted champions of modern abstract art. In this five column piece for the American magazine THE NEW REPUBLIC, he was explaining the significance the French modernist, André Derain (1880-1954), who he believed was the "best painter in all of France" (reserving for Picasso the roll of the "most influential painter in all of Europe". A Degenerate Work of Art: Cubism (The Art World, 1917)The attached art review is a classic piece of anti-modernist criticism:
"The intellectual degeneracy of the modernistic movement of to-day can easily be traced back to the moral degeneracy of the Second Empire, created by the Mephistophic traitor and despot Napoleon III..." New Portrait Busts by Jo Davidson (Vanity Fair, 1916)This single column reported on the 1916 busts that were created by the American sculptor Jo Davidson (1883 - 1952), during his tour of war-torn Europe.
By the end of the Twentieth Century, much of his work would be in the collections of many of the finest art museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the U.S. Senate Art Collection and the National Statuary Hall, both in Washington. Claude Monet --The Last Survivor of the Old Guard (Vanity Fair, 1920)The editors of VANITY FAIR saluted the eighty year-old painter Claude Monet, praising him as "the only remaining member of a little group of painters - Degas, Manet, Renoir and several others - known as the Master Impressionists." Art Sacandal: Aubrey Beardsley Forged (Vanity Fair, 1919)London's post-World War I art world was rocked by a scandal involving a number forged drawings which were misleadingly signed with the name Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898). This piece captures that moment.
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