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4 ART THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1951. HWM rIS SECTION 5 wiiiiiiiiiiiiiminmMnimiiminiiiiiiiiiiniiiinmM ART: Brooklyn Museum Exhibits International Works By JUSTUS BIER, Courier-Journal Art Editor I Du PONT HOUSE PAINT I and DU PONT "DULUX" I At Your Neighborhood Du Pont Paint Dealer Crittenden Drive Lumber Supply Co, 1 3750 Crittenden Drive AT 5255! iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiHinimiiniiMm ress and pay little attention to the maintenance and development of intellectual, artistic and spiritual life. Lewis feels that we have not given enough proof of a different cultural attitude to destroy such mistaken notions. The theme of the first morning session, "What Does The World Expect Culturally of America," was further elaborated on by speakers representing Asia, Europe and South America. The general tone of these talks agreed with Mr.

Lewis skepticism as to the lack of a true representation of American culture which is too often identified with the Grade and Hollywood movie rather than with any of the high-Continued on Page 5 WHEN I MADE the rounds of art museums and galleries in New York last week I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the International Water Color Exhibition. It will be shown there through June 24. This biennial show is a large exhibition containing 228 water colors made up half of water colors by United States artists and half by water colors from foreign countries. The foreign countries selected this year are Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. From the looks of the exhibition it would seem that Switzerland produces mostly construc-tivistic art of the type which is familiar in the work of Mondrian and that Denmark produces only pale-colored landscapes which seem to fall in line with post-impressionistic trends.

Of course this impression is based on the selection of Lee Swane for Denmark, and of Richard P. Lehse and Siegfried Giedion for Switzerland. Giedion is known in this country as a visiting lecturer at Harvard and as writer of great books exploring the genesis of modern architecture and tech white sustaining the bold large shape of the bird. Morris Graves succeeds in creating a mystic and withdrawn world with such a commonplace subject as "Jardiniere Meadow." Philip Guston discovers the beauty of whitish grays and plain enumeration of shapes in "Still Life, No. 5." John Marin translates "Sacco Falls" in a staccato of attenuated calligraphy.

Robert Motherwell startles in "Figure" with a shape as simple as a child's drawing on a wall, hiding sophistication behind aggressive boldness. At Convention "America's Cultural Responsibilities In The World Today" was the general topic of the annual convention of the American Federation of Arts I attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on June 1 and 2. Another representative from Louisville, Paul S. Harris, director of the J. B.

Speed Art Museum, attended the meeting. The first day's session was opened with a talk by John F. Lewis, president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, who pointed out the distrust found in every foreign country toward both the United States and Russia. Although to us this neutralism toward the so-fundamentally different powers does not seem understandable, we should realize that to intellectuals in many smaller countries an attitude of neutralism toward two powers seemingly rivalling for the domination of the globe may seem a proper attitude. Both powers in the view of such observers confuse culture with material prog nology.

"Cows" by Ewald Matare is in the "Museum Menagerie' exhibition currently shown at the Junior Art Gallery. Wide Range Switzerland's contribut ion 1 -1 AIRLINER RANGE TWi gene Berman, fascinated with Italian architectural vistas, in his water color, "The Facade," reaches a romantic intensity of vision far less theatrical than his better known oils. Yasuo Knuiyoshi in "To The Ball" balances the most garish colors with a delicacy that makes his performance a coloristic trapeze act which takes the breath away. Milton Avery in "White Bird" achieves a striking image with his combination of orange and THE CURRENT ART CALENDAR reached from Lehse's "Optical Fugues of Ten Equal Themes in Five Colors," which casts emotion into strictly rational forms, to such evasive Klee-like fantasies as Julia Ris' "The Oasis." The selection of German work is far more comprehensive than the Danish and Swiss selections. It gives in 57 water colors a full impression of the different trends alive in Germany today.

Responsible for the selection is Miss Charlotte Weidler who has selected German art for many years for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute International Exhibitions. She has been responsible also for the selection of the exhibition of Berlin artists which was shown in Louisville's J. B. Speed Art Museum recently. Her selection includes two water colors by Juro Kubicek, who was artist-in-residence at the University of Louisville in 1948 and 1949.

Both are titled "Metamorphosis" and combine the suggestive ease of water-color technique with Kubicek's well-known precision of execution. In German Group Represented in the German section also is Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who was lacking in the Louisville Berlin artists show. He is one of the founders of the famous expressionistic group, The Bridge. He performs still with the same force as in his earlier years. Hans Jaenisch, who in the Louisville exhibition made the impression of an artist searching for new forms of expression, proves again his power with three water colors in silver-grayish tints which have a delicate fantastic touch.

The old master of German abstract art, Willi Baumeister of Stuttgart, is magnificently represented with three works, each in a completely different mood. He uses free forms and precise geometry, primary colors of brilliant hues and toned-down earth colors with equal success. Back to Old Style The United States section of the exhibition is invitational. Although an effort has been made to include the work of some younger and lesser-known artists, the bulk of the exhibition is the work of well-established artists. The exhibition succeeds showing the progressive trends of the day," which is the museum's usual policy, but it gives little chance to artists who haye not come to the of museum authorities by exhibiting in New York galleries.

As seems likely, many artists are represented with work of the type and force to be expected from them, but once in a while there is a performance which reveals a new, Charles Burfhfield, who has returned to the style of his youth, abandoning his more recent realism, performs with unusual expressive power in his "Clatter of Crows In A Spring Woods." Eu GENERAL ELECTRIC "SPEED COOKING" HI-SPEED CALROD UNITS Five exact cooking speeds, from simmer to highl Fast and economical! AUTOMATIC OVEN TIMING BIO MASTER OVEN Put your entire meal in the oven set it for dinnertime and take the afternoon off! PUSH-BUTTON CONTROLS COOK WITH YOUR FINGER TIPS A push button for each exact cooking speed! Fast and economical! PLUS Super Broiler for charcoal-type broilingThrift Cooker with 6-qt capacity No-Stain Oven Vent and lots more for fast, easy, clean, economical, better meals! All exhibition, arc free and open (he public. J. B. SPEED ART MUSEUM Open weekdays except Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 2 to 6 p.m.

The Architecture of The City Plan (lent bv the Museum of Modern Art. New York): through June 19. Early Kentuckv Postal Cover, (lent by member, of the Philatelic Club. Louisville): through June 24. The American Revolution, a Lite magazine portfolio exhibition: through July 4.

Bird Art Today (lent by the National Audubon Society. New York). ALLEN R. HITE INSTITUTE, Unfver-ity of Louisville Exhibition in library rotunda Open weekdays. 8:30 a.m.

to 8:30 p.m.: Wednesday. 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday. 8:30 am. to noon.

Work by Allen R. Hite Scholarship Winners; through June 29. LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, in downstairs hall Vacation paintings by students from Highland Junior High School and its feeder schools; through June. JUNIOR ART GALLERY. Louisville Free Public Library Open weekdays except Monday.

1Q a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum Menagerie, selected original prints by leading contemporary artists (lent by the Museum of Modern Art. New York). Added are papier-mache figures by Louisville school children and animal sculptures lent by private collectors: through June 2S.

LITTLE GALLERY. 1570 Story Open weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to noon. Exhibition of glass engravings by Helen Patterson and opaque water colors by Robert K. Smith; through June 15.

KENTUCKY STATE FAIR Annual Fine Arts Exhibit in the Woman's Department September 7 through September 15. Write for premium list and entry blanks to Kentucky State Fair, Louisville. Art juror Philip R. Adams, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Grand Award of $100 for the best work of art.

Total of art prizes. $379. LEXINGTON, University of Kentucky Fine Arts Gallery Open weekdays. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to noon.

Tenth Annual Exhibition of Student Art; through June. MURRAY. Murray State College. Mary Fl McCoy Hall Gallery Open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday.

2 to 5 p.m. Paintings. Sculpture and Crafts selected from the 24th Annual Kentucky and Southern Indiana Exhibition of Art. ATHENS. Ohio Ninth Annual Ohio Valley Oil and Water Color Show at Ohio University from July 1 to July 31.

CINCINNATI. Cincinnati Art Museum. Open weekdays. 10 a m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.

Knife. Fork and Spoon Exhibition (circulated by the Walker Art Center. Minneapolis): through June 17. Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibition: through June. Art Academy Student's Work: through October 1.

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