Word: rattner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures hanging in the museum's pleasant galleries last week were proof that Mrs. Force's taste was catholic, usually sound. From George Luks's powerfully naturalistic study, The Wrestlers, dated 1905, to the stylized modernist canvases of Abraham Rattner and the obscure experiments of Baziotes and Gottlieb (see below), every excursion and detour of U.S. art was represented...
...jury was composed of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr. and three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
Well, said Painter Sample, it was "both a consideration of the painter's intentions and his realization of these intentions." Abraham Rattner enlarged on Sample's statement by saying that a work that was exceedingly well painted might very well be omitted if the jury felt that it was not genuinely eloquent or expressive, or if the technique chosen did not appear to have been honestly felt or arrived at by the artist...
Leaving aside the critical fallacy involved in judging an artist's work by guessing at his "intentions," Miss Genauer came down with both high heels on Rattner's rationalization. "It is easy," she wrote, "to spot technical proficiency quickly, but to decide on the honesty of an artist's approach on the basis of only one of his works, and that examined at an average speed of two or three pictures a minute, takes considerable doing...
...things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...