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.