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GERMANY NOW SHUNS BIZARRE
EXHIBITIONS
RERLIN, Dec. 9.—There is a decid
ed return to normalcy in German art,
if this year’s jury-free exhibition in
the Berlin Glass Palace is any crite
rion. This is a free-for-all exhibition
in which no jury passes in advance I
upon what may be exhibited or what !
should be excluded. Its founders pro- ;
pose to give every artist a chance to
show the public what he has done.
The excellent birdseye view of cur
rent tendencies in German art.
What strikes one especially at this
year’s exhibition is the fact that
among the 1728 works exhibited,
there are very few of a cubist or oth
er freakish nature. There seems to
be even a return to the impression
istic school. This is especially true
of landscape painting, which is for
the most part as realistic as the work
of Lieberman or Corot. Younger ar
tists like Ernst llonigberger or Gus
tav Boese, however, seem to employ
a sharper contrast of color than did
the earlier generation of German ar
tists.
The preponderance of conservative
canvasses does not mean, however,
that there are not many attempts at
art which strike the layman as bi
zarre. There are pictures for in
stance, destined for church altars, :
which are so ugly that one wonders
how the originator ever expected to
make religious propaganda with them.
Similarly, several sculptors have in
flicted upon the public statues of wo
men who are fat, unproportioned and ;
homely.
^ But they are rather the exception.
On the whole there is an attempt to
get away from pronounced freakish
ness and to make only such depart
ures from old and accepted standards
as the layman can follow.
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rainfall in the same region according
to George F. McEwen, of the biologi
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has reached this conclusion after ex
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Using this theory Mr. McEwen Jias
predicted that the rainfall in San Di
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five inches more than the average1 for
the last eight years. According to
the hypothesis, low summer tempera
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fall in the winter and higher temper
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“The moisture of the air over the
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by evaporation from the ocean sur
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available for precipitation upon the
land is proportional to the mass of
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in some years it disappears entirely
and again increases to a summer
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which the ocean “high” is relatively
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during the winter or rainy season.
Numerous barometric observations
over the ocean, suitably distributed
both in space and time, would serve
to determine the amount of air form
ing the Pacific ‘high.’ Foreknowledge
of the amount of air available for
transfer landwmrd -would indicate in
advance whether to expect a wet or
dry season.”
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had indicated that a change in ocean
temperature of one degree Fahren
heit corresponded on the average to a
difference of two inches in rain over
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