Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Guide
Thursday, December 28, 1961, page 2 (of 12)
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ART TIMES
By Robert S. Hurwitz Bravos for the Miami Museum of Modern Art. Bravos for Bernard Davis and his continued willingness to deck his walls with the "difference in paintings" others are too timid to try. Bruce Larson now showing a prodigious display of painting dynamite, soundly smashes the modern art sound barrier by causing loud cries of indignation and mistrust by the sleeping "it's not art" critics. Larson's show of non-objective paintings spin your senses in a whirl of color, vibration, dynamics, and originality not usually seen in this area. It takes only a split second glance to get lost in the dramatic effect of dancing color, alive with the vitality of mystic forms and pelting paint. And to say the least, there's plenty of oil on the brush before space is conceived. His darting, dabbling, brush plants areas of built-on paint ... not where you'd think they should be, but where the artist intuitively knows they must be. In "Designation" Larson typically leads you emotion-ally into a secret world of thought. His onrushing planes of jagged line carries your eyes forward. He then con-trasts with delicate but de-liberate receding colors that take you back into space as far as you personally want to go. He deftly keeps your attention by alternating his values and crafting his line. This show demonstrates modern movement in contemp-orary painting today. Its com-ments will evoke all of the standard smart set cliches. So if you're so inclined, don't waste your breath. If, however, you view this show without preconceived no-tions, the revelation of under-standing will be worth your while. Not every work is good-some are downright miserable-some should not even be shown. Perhaps deciding the good and rejecting the infer-ior is a lesson in art appre-ciation you need. In some paintings Larson gets lost in errors and can't recover-so let's just say he makes mistakes (don't we all) and failed. But when he is inspired by an inner vision that displays before your eyes forms, colors, patterns, and textures that provoke person-al response within yourself then we say his painting has succeeded. In Bruce Larson I find real hope for the future school of "Personism". "Personism" that art which allows the artist to express pure thought and emotion ac-cording to his individual de-sire without fear of contra-diction from the outside. Robert Drapers, Mirell Gal-lery in Coconut Grove is dis-playing the paintings of Rey-na V. Youngerman and the sculpture of her daughter Judith Gindy. Renya opens her eyes wide to the local scene and records the interest of our own back yard. By mixing off the brilliance of the tube fed colors and a careful blending of dulls, she depicts well "View from the Columbus" "Dreamboat," and "Twelve Noon." Miss Youngerman uses a short cut to detail by captur-ing the image without depend-ing upon exact representation. Her historical approach to painting Florida is welcome indeed. Judith Gindy makes her debut in sculpture with a showing of figures in inter-pretive dance.
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