The Guide

REACTIONS to ART

by ROBERT S. HURWITZ This year, local artist and art connoisseur Robert Draper, took control of the Mirell Gallery on Main Highway in Coconut Grove. A revue of his operation is in order. Draper is considered around town as firmly knowledgable in art history, trends and technique. His personal collection of art and artifacts is considerable. His broad sweep of interests carries his art verse from Tarascan to Modern. Mr. Robert, who has his Channel 2 T.V. program, has a real chance to impart some of this knowledge but he permits his too-talkative artist guests to dominate him... they should not be allowed to. Mirell's walls are ever changing. The fast pace of new shows produces a lot of names, some significant, some of little importance. Draper's permanent for-sale collection of Chimu Carved Men, African Masks, Chinese Frescoes and thousand-year-old Tarascan Figures, are wonderful additions to cur artifact scene. Picasso lithos, large Rubens and a newly-acquired Matisse drawing, glamorize the scene. Nellie Bower, former art critic at the News, is wonderfully opinionated as Mirell's Director and Greeter. I dislike but understand the economic fact, that anyone with the price to rent, can stage an exhibit. Too many painters of little repute exhibit, leaving little opportunity for the deserving artists to gain exposure. A good change of pace, is Richard Veit's Photographic exhibit. His exciting effects in the field of creative photography, by the use of a new color process, are worth a look. 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. 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.

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