Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodman's thesis, in brief, is that modern art has turned its back on content, and therefore on the public-and that it's a great pity. "Content" Rodman defines as "a projection through tangible symbols of the artist's attachment to values out side art itself." To draw the shutters on all values except formal ones, and paint pictures of nothing at all, demeans art to the status of mere decoration. And art is being so demeaned, right and left...
...lies not in such blameless refereeing but in Rodman's heartfelt reinterpretation of art history, past and present. In a succession of loosely connected essays he shows that art has always been two-faced. Giotto knew how to make the two faces-form and content-merge into one. So did Rembrandt and every other great painter. But artists who try to get around the problem by sacrificing form to content (like the academicians) or content to form (like the most extreme of the moderns) have always fallen flat between...
...profile the two faces. Rodman organized a loan exhibition at Manhattan's Gallery G last week. One side of the gallery was devoted to pictures emphasizing form, and the other side to those in which content came first. Leaning over backward to be fair, he made abstractions the show's better half. Actually his thesis was better illustrated by other works currently showing. Items...
...Goethe's praise for his Faust drawings, much of his theatrical subject matter-triumphant crusaders, fierce sultans and pashas, sultry harem girls-today seems mawkish. Probably only his scenes drawn on the barricades during the 1830 revolution still hold men's imagination. But if Delacroix's content is dated, his art is not. He attacked his craft with an iron will, raising color to a central, expressive role and making discoveries in form and line that still delight...
...snow was a poor background for the game, but a group of energetic Yalies from Berkeley and Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half...