Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1937, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1937. What do you know about ART? Here is a liberal education at a trifling cost! Get these 48 Famous Paintings and 12 Lessons in Art Appreciation through the courtesy of THE EVENING STAR ‘m collaboration with the ’ NaTioNAL COMMITTEE FOR ART APPRECIATION 5 HAT do you do when the con- versation turns to art? Run to cover behind the old bromide j“I don’t know a thing about Art—. .all T know is what I like”? !Don’t try it. The old excuses don’t _go any more. A It’s smart to talk art these days, and you might as well be ready to lead - the conversation as to try to follow it through subjects you know noth- ing about. . Check up on your knowledge of art with the brief test on this page. Don’t you need to brush up? . Here is the perfect chance to do it —. at a minimum of effort and ex- : ; pense. For 39 cents and a half- { El Greco’s “View of Toledo” . hour’s time a vyeek, you get -a fine Crowds usually are to e found before the “View of Tolede” name in Greek and adding always, “The Cretan.” . .. He was lZ-week course in Al‘t Apprecmtlon . at the Metropolitan Museum in rapt wonder at the unreal, twice discovered, first by Philip II of Spain, but the King did P y dreamlike quality of El Greco’s painting. The flames of Spain, not continue his royal favor. 300 y 1 t:e h i and a permanent collection of 48 of 3 ;’ll:l‘g:l:'lfi'le a“ but dgflg‘gfifl Toledo, may have consumed other covered out of almost complete obscafintl: 5 I;'e w‘:sv:';:-n::ellsy- the WOl']d’S finest pictures. Greco ( lstl-lGlfi Iivl'led ir:!Sm:iilt.eilzlltecnee;:r!;g:zxférete, hPx:: mr})lre modern than the Modernists and influenced a whols . birthplace, and continued to Ee & proud foreigner signing his school of modern artists, IS 8. » . 2 - s > T If that isn’t a bargain in education, By America’s Greatest Woman Painte® don’t clip the Art Certificate below e . 0 M tt is the test inte; i and start saving for the series todayl I R i e A pAtnlar, Jmetice hag time. Her father, a banker, said, “I would rather see you dead than a painter.” She went to Paris at the age of 23 and never Teturned to America. Although she never married her favorite m I subjects were the subtle and tender pictures of mother and THESE 48 M AST[RPIEBES. hild. . . . Segard said, “Mary C: tt had inter’ Y THIS TEST S pros Sy i Rl - LIST OF ARTISTS , as though she knew intuitively that she must give herself to ow any n nswer 4 all of them rather than to some. She painted them with love.” 1. Whose paintings, of which only 37 are on record, are worth approximately a million dollars apiece? 2. What painting has been seen by more persons than any other in the world? Where is it? ‘What is Impressionism? FREE to set-completers - . . Degas, seeing a painting of hers for the first time, said, “I will not admit that a woman can draw like that,” but after meeting her, he became her best friend. HANDSOME COLLECTORS PORTFOLIO 12 EXCITING LESSONS IN FREE ART APPRECIATION Here is Art Coupon. Hereafter you will find these Art . Coupons on Page 2 each day. (Subject to Change) Clip and save these Art Coupons. Bring one coupon to = the business office of The Star with only 39 cents (46 cents if by mail), which will entitle you to the first Homer Vermeer Courbet: week's Set of Four Paintings and the first Lesson in Eakins Hals Daumier Art Appreciation. Cassatt Rembrandt Degas Do the same for 12 weeks o get the entire collection of Benton Rubens Monet these 48 superd reproductions. 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