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When O. Louis Guglielmi was young his violinist father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
Paintings would be better if more young painters knew their minds so well, but in 1932, after nearly eight hard years of dishwashing and other grim jobs, Guglielmi became aware that "painting could be a means of communication." To Louis Guglielmi this was a solemn discovery, solemnly followed up. Working with the painful slowness of a virtuoso who hates virtuosity, living on the Federal Art Project's $22.77 a week, he has finished in five years 16 paintings which he is willing to show. Last week they were shown at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery in his first...
Mostly done in oil on gesso (a smooth white ground of chalk mixed with casein glue), Artist Guglielmi's delicately painted panels are calculated and precise symbols of ideas. In Persistent Sea a solid doorway melts into a vast, minutely painted ocean. In Mental Geography a modern angel with bomb fins instead of wings perches on a twisted cable of Brooklyn Bridge, ruined by bombing. In these and other paintings Guglielmi has developed a specifically American variant of Surrealism-grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning...
...Rodolfo Guglielmi, born May 6, 1895, in the little Italian village of Castellaneta, died August 23, 1926, in New York, as Rudolph Valentino. Last and best Valentino picture-a sequel to the one which had made his reputation five years before -was The Son of the Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik...
...painters were represented by their best work of the year. From Boston, where he was born in 1915, Jack Levine sent the most powerful canvas in the show, a Street Scene with three dreamlike, prodigious figures. As elegant as this was rough, The Various Spring by O. Louis Guglielmi, 31-year-old New Yorker, showed three identical blue-shirted workmen climbing maypoles to reach gift platters in each of which reposed a little dead Madrileno...