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...this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet (3), Picasso (3), Modigliani (2), Renoir (4), Van Gogh (3), Degas (2), Rousseau (1) and Toulouse-Lautrec...
...present show at the Busch-Reisinger, three rooms are devoted to Nouveau objets d'art and the graphics of some artists influenced by the school--Beardsley, Charles Ricketts and, true to recent art scholarship, the masters, Lautrec and Munch...
...Lautrec's decorative patterns have almost unlimited visual interest because he carefully avoids any sort of systematic stylization, a method all too frequently employed by the Art Nouveau. The lack of any one obvious decorative pattern and the subtle coloring of his poster for Le Divon Japonais produces a composition whose complexity would not have pleased the Art Nouveau. Moreover, as if to prevent decorativism, curved lines that might become stylish are suddenly straightened if the picture requires. The faces in the Divon poster, if anything, are distorted with a vengeance--no pretty picture this. These harsh qualities are precisely...
...best things in this exhibit, as could be expected, are the Munch and Lautrec prince Comparing the precosity and decadence of many of the Nouveau's minor works, such as the Ricketts drawings, however, to the profundity of the masters' graphics, one sees that the influence of Art Nouveau on their style was only slight and, as regards content, the decorative school had no significant impact on either Munch or Lautrec. In short, there is no real ponit for their being exhibited...
...Nouveau is just beginning its vogue. New York's Musum of Modern Art plans an enormous exhibit of the school this summer and similar shows elsewhere will surely follow. Aside from the pleasant but confusing inclusion of Munch and Lautrec, the Busch-Reisinger's well-chosen exhibit gives one a full picture of the Art Nouveau--its frequent failures as well as its undeniable successes...