Word: cadmus
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...think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, made his earlier works seem almost sissified...
...sharply satirical pictures of sailors spliced to sausage-fat floozies, and Greenwich Village phonies on the loose, made Cadmus famous before...
...mild-seeming man with a crew cut and a boyishly diffident manner, Cadmus had turned to abstract themes. His new show centered around seven two-foot-high panels representing nothing less than the Seven Deadly Sins...
...Cadmus hopes against hope that the series will be sold as a group to decorate a church (price: $20,000). "I don't believe," he says wistfully, "that any of my paintings would encourage anyone to sin." As nightmare personifications of evil, the Sins were frightening enough; as pictures, they were merely unpleasant. It looked as if in this case Cadmus had sold his art for a mess of message...
...started with the lacy, architectural etchings of such classicists as Connecticut's John Taylor Arms and Philadelphia's Joseph Pennell. the gloomy, satirical lithographs of such old warhorses as Manhattan's George Bellows, ended with samples by big-city artists like Adolf Dehn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Cadmus, Midwestern and Southern regionalists like Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John McGrady, experimentalists like Stuart Davis and Federico Castellon...