The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, March 15, 1962, page 5 (of 20)

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REACTIONS to ART

by ROBERT S. HURWITZ New York is assumed, imagined or believed to be the art capital of America, if not of the world. Certainly our area's major artists think it. They read about it and interested patrons beseech them to try their luck in the big city. For sure there are more galleries in New York than any other city. More taste, more buyers, more big names, more schools and MORE ARTISTS. ABOUT 30,000 MORE OR LESS. Frankly, I would have made the same "opportunity observation." I'm still convinced that there is a place for recognition for the best, a road for all talent to walk upon, and a hall for all to enter, but I'm not positive anymore. Three mature Miami talents, Martin Hoffman, Tony Scornavacca and Bruce Larsen have individually made the trek. All are back, all disillusioned. It must be pointed out that they are more convinced that dedication to their art right here in Miami is necessary and better than beating on the hard doors and pavement of New York. It must be added for the record, that Scornavacca and Larsen blasted my opinion into submission about the New York school. There are some controversial and significant observations they made that should be brought out. SCORNAVACCA: My paintings seemed old-fashioned compared to the avant-garde work shown and praised. Paint with no direction-paint smeared on-paint shot on. No attempt to see beauty. Tight controlled monoply by the Art News Press and others who wave the New York and American flag in defense of only our school to the exclusion of what is good abroad and outside of New York. Thank goodness for the Metropolitan and Modern Museums. There's very little to get excited about in other galleries. No one has any obligation to art ... only to themselves. New York is cold and unsympathetic ... I came back with no money—or hope. Saying I'm an artist in New York, is calling for trouble. LARSEN: One gallery owner asked me to leave his gallery, he didn't care to see my work, acknowledge me, nothing. He had his clients and artist friends. There are 30,000 artists that think their work is good. They can starve in New York, I'll starve in Miami. If you are abnormal or act that way, you can get a lot of people who can help. Before seeing it, the capital of modern art in the U.S. was the Guggenheim ... it's the worst and symbolizes mediocrity. Nothing significant is happening as a result of the abstract expressionist movement. Their experimentation is leading nowhere. The galleries have room for junk but no room for hope. The important result of their sincerity and experience is that better art will be created in Miami by them for all of us to appreciate.

Lady Caddies Among Us May Well Be Aghast

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent It is not clear why such a fuss has been made and so much space given to the fact that a lady caddy has arrived from France to begin her duties on Florida golf courses. We have had lady barbers, and lady butchers, and lady bakers for years, and have got used to the idea that lady officials sit in the hig seats of government at Washington, hence there is no reason why golf links should have an all-male atmosphere and be averse ot mirrors and powder rooms in the club house. And yet we see room for embarrassment among golfers who begin a round in tow of a lady caddy. This is not because the said caddy might be wearing skirts. In Europe, a golfer may get around with just two or three clubs and may do without a bag to carry them in. But in the USA a Sunday golfer often feels that he hasn't got enough clubs and furtively stuffs his stoutly made bag with a collection that w1ll wear down the strongest men. How are frail feminine shoulders to carry such a weight? Also, in Europe golf is played with a high degree of quietude and with an absence of spectacular and dramatic effects. But in the USA golfers, who are otherwise sane, have been known to hurl an expensive bag of clubs deep into a creek, or to break a club in half and hurl the pieces at the birds, or to pitch a deficient putter into a pine thicket, and walk off a course muttering and mumbling to themselves. But to a lady caddy such conduct might be unnerving and dislocating to her aplomb, particularly if she is French and thinks golf is play. In the USA, golf is a serious and racking business. Until they learn that fact, lady caddies from abroad will be often aghast.

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Bachmann And Kasper

Coral Gables Country Club Women's Golf Association played golf Friday and the tournament was least fairway shots. Mrs. Albert Bachmann and Mrs. E. W. Kasper tied with a 28 to win in Class A. Mrs. J. Stanley Burke won in Class B with a 28. Mrs. Fay Britt and Mrs. A. Milton Dohre tied with a 29 to come in second.

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