Kurt Weill
New Art Is True Art
[STUDENTS]
We proclaim artistic bravery
We're disciples of Whitelaw Savory
[ATTENDANT, spoken]
The modern art class will kindly come to order. Mr. Savory is ready.
[SAVORY]
New art is true art
The old masters slew art
[STUDENTS]
They all learned how to draw
But they painted what they thought they saw
Instead of what they saw they thought
As the liberated artist ought
[SAVORY]
How are they to be trusted?
[STUDENTS]
They must have been maladjusted
[SAVORY]
Their taste was too formal
[STUDENTS]
Their people looked completely normal
Old art is cold art
The new art is bold art
[SAVORY]
The best of ancient Greece
[STUDENTS]
They were centuries behind Matisse
[SAVORY]
What is it that you must forget?
[STUDENTS]
The statuary in the Met
[SAVORY]
The classical museums
[STUDENTS]
Are fuddy-duddy mausoleums
[SAVORY]
The art in the Louvre
[STUDENTS]
Went out with Herbert Hoover
[SAVORY]
DaVinci was garish
[A FEMALE STUDENT, spoken]
Give me the work of Maxfield Parrish!
[4 MALE & 2 FEMALE STUDENTS]
Artists of an era previous
Sank to methods dull and devious
They employed a chiaroscuro
Hazy as a weather bureau
[STUDENTS]
Shame on them, the old imposters
We salute the modern masters
[SAVORY]
Lastly, but vastly
Tradition is ghastly!
[STUDENTS]
We proclaim artistic bravery
We're disciples of Whitelaw Savory
New art is true art
Old art is cold art
[MALE STUDENTS]
New art
[FEMALE STUDENTS]
True art
[MALE STUDENTS]
Old art
[FEMALE STUDENTS]
Cold art
[MALE STUDENTS]
New art
[FEMALE STUDENTS]
True art
[MALE STUDENTS]
Old art
[FEMALE STUDENTS]
Cold art
[STUDENTS]
Ah
[SAVORY, spoken]
Now you understand what I've been saying.