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...Painter Morris Broderson knows more than most men about living out life alone: he has the private vision of one who was born deaf. In the past few years, his extraordinary talent has earned him recognition around his native Los Angeles; now he has been added to the prestigious stable of the Downtown Gallery, which represents such noted older artists as Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Stuart Davis, William Zorach and Georgia O'Keeffe. Dealer Edith Halpert introduces her new artist with a ten-year retrospective, borrowed mostly from the collections of such varied celebrities as Joseph Hirshhorn and Actor...
...work in the show that seems out of place dates from 1943, when Broderson was only 14. It is a meticulous rendering of the muscled back of a male model, done with all the skill of a master draftsman. Gradually, Broderson came to "dislike perfect bodies.'' His figures became a play of shadow and form-squat, ghostly figures that can be taken as universal symbols suggesting anything from the innocence of a child's puppet to the thunder of an ancient god. For a while, they held the stage with nothing in the background, but over...
There is nothing bitter about Broderson's vision of the world, but he is drawn to themes of sadness and is fascinated by ritual. Just as he may portray a tale of rape and murder that has been repeated century after century by the Kabuki players of Japan, as in The Nun and the Skull, so he is drawn to the bull rings, where year after year man and beast have performed their ballet with death. Then he might do a painting of a little girl listening to "the sound of flowers," or of two praying nuns...
Opposite Directions. At first glance, it might seem as if Jacob Landau, 44, had come out of the same school as Robert Broderson, 41. In both Cinna the Poet (overleaf) and New Myth-Mine Disaster (last color page), the tortured figures look as if they were about to be torn apart...
...artists take entirely different approaches to their work. Broderson, who learned much from painting abstractions -"surfaces, various ways of using paint and the like"-starts a picture with only the vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with...