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...Painter Among New Members...
Jules Kirschenbaum, 32, and his Latvian-born wife, Cornelis Ruhtenberg, had both always painted realistically, though she once tried abstraction ("It seemed awfully easy"). Painter Ruhtenberg likes to show "figures against space, to get figures against a flat background without making perspective." In Potiphar's Wife (see overleaf), the running man balances the seated figure: "The problem was to have a contained picture, yet have movement." In Kirschenbaum's Sleeping Figures, the problem was to achieve "the dreamlike qualities of everything becoming different yet clear." The fact that everything in the lush arabesque is not really clear produces...
...Painter Stuart Davis is a small, rotund man who complains a good deal these days about not feeling too well. When asked specifically what ails him, he sweepingly announces, "I'm sick!" He may be-but the paintings in his current show at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery reflect a state of glowing health. They are young, bright, intense, and filled with the jazzy rhythms that have always been to Davis the pulse of modern life. In all his notable career, Davis at 67 has never seemed more vigorous...
...large degree, modern art has been one long exercise in rebellion, and that has suited Davis' temperament perfectly. At 15 he joined a class run by Robert Henri, an "Ashcan School" painter who was in revolt against all the ready-made standards of beauty and proportion handed down year after year by the powerful Art Students League. Davis' next teacher was the 1913 Armory Show, which he saw when he was not yet 20. It was sheer emancipation to see that Van Gogh and Gauguin used color, not as nature had it, but almost arbitrarily in accordance with...
...Parenthesis, by David Jones. A bitter novel in which a painter turns to prose and poetry to attack...