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They developed an expressionism tempered with cubism. Exaggeration, distortion & (simplification) used as means to put over the artist's feeling about his theme rather than merely represent objectivity.

AW -(compare with the musician who is merely a technical virtuoso & the artist known for his interpretation of the music) And simplification with the aim of getting at essentials & the inner being of their subjects rather than the outer appearances as a camera might record it. Or, as the impressionists had done, through the fleeting atmospheric aspects of landscape or the effect of light in breaking up objects & scenes & presenting the momentary aspects of figures. This emphasis on the individual artists' reactions has been of extreme importance, in American Art & is to be traced in the work of so called American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock & de Kooning.


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-Would like to meet Marcelle Loubchansky, member 'Salon d'Octobre,' Paris Arpad Szenes (may be related to Szenes who wrote review of Riverside Show.) - Mariska Karasz.

Also Irwin Crosthwait. Blvd. Rochechouart. fashion artist for Hayms - murals, good abstract painter.

Eve - 7-11.30 - Reception in garden for me. Gor-Booths, Welsings, Hardums (3 Ambassadors)