Word: messer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous. Since its original commitment was to nonobjective art, it is about 80% abstract, but even in its chosen field, its omissions-Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell. to mention only a few-are glaring. Nevertheless, the corkscrew museum's new director. Thomas Messer, last week put on a show from the collection that was a delight from the third spiral to the ground floor: an exhibition of the museum's ''old masters...
...best turn was its first. An off-camera voice, bad, sang Mack the Knife in German. Sound waves waggled on an oscilloscope. A succession of 10-sec. sight gags interrupted the picture: water leaked from an oil painting of the ocean; a fire hydrant squirted at a dog. Mackie Messer wavered...
Numerous colored slides illustrated Messer's point: the object of art is to say things never said before. During his comparison of Boucher's sensuous "Venus" with De Kooning's grotesque figure of "Woman," Messer commented that modern art attempts to tell the truth even if the subject is not pretty...
...question and answer period followed the lecture. When asked to comment on the statement that modern art is ugly art, Messer replied that new reality does not strike one as beautiful. Reality, to those unaccustomed to it, tends to shock...
...Messer, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, directed the annual Boston Arts Festival this year. He is teaching two courses in the Summer School...