The nation . rstanding scale,makes painterliness architectural; hemakes an abstraction of that inventionof the muralists of the Venetian Renais-sance. Ernst Wilhelm Rays Yellow andPurple is one of the few paintings to usecolor as color. Ruggeri, in Martyrdom ofSt. Matthew uses the dramatic pos-sibilities of current abstraction. WhereKlines painting is architectural, Stillsis decorative: meaning that it does notlie on the wall, but seems to project fromit, and its decorativeness is that primi-tive kind that leads people to hangcolored cloths around to kill the bare-ness. Like a Bakst ballet set
The nation . rstanding scale,makes painterliness architectural; hemakes an abstraction of that inventionof the muralists of the Venetian Renais-sance. Ernst Wilhelm Rays Yellow andPurple is one of the few paintings to usecolor as color. Ruggeri, in Martyrdom ofSt. Matthew uses the dramatic pos-sibilities of current abstraction. WhereKlines painting is architectural, Stillsis decorative: meaning that it does notlie on the wall, but seems to project fromit, and its decorativeness is that primi-tive kind that leads people to hangcolored cloths around to kill the bare-ness. Like a Bakst ballet set, it worksas a backdrop for the accidental realismof people walking through the of the higher proportion ofquality among the few relatively realis-tic paintings than among the enormousnumber of abstract ones, this exhibitionseems to enforce Clement Greenbergsobservation that it is harder to paintabstractly than realistically. However,one sees plenty of exhibitions that seemto prove the Subscribe to The Carolina Israelite (now53,080 subscriptions) . . Americas mostwclHy read, and most widely quoted per-sonal journal. For you: s:; year. For yourfriends: $8 year. The Carolina Israelite, Kllzabcth Avenue. Charlotte, Northt Inrnllna. In tin Autumn Issue of QUEENS QUARTERLY Discussions of: Nuclear Warfare andMorality bv J. V. Basmajian andS. P. Wise Party Images in Canadaby J. M. Beck and D. J. Dooley Reason and ScientificKnowledgeby Hillis Kaiser The Plays of Bertolt Brecht by Wendy MichenerOne Issue $ One Year $ QUEENS UNIVERSITY Kingston Ontario Canada Service to OurReaders fromOur Readers9Service If theres any book you want tobuy (except paperbacks)—youcan do so without leaving thecomfort of your home. Heres all you have to do:send us the name and authorand, if possible, the publisherof the book. Well have it sentdirectly to you. If payment is received withyour order the books will besent you post-free; if sent COD,you will be charged the r
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