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...dailies. The paper's criticism of the arts is also a match for the other city papers, though Film Critic Jonas Mekas tends to go overboard in his enthusiasm for the "underground movies" that are popular in the Village. In a recent ecstatic review of Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, Mekas discerned not only an affinity to Victor Hugo and James Joyce, but also the very "essence and blood of our culture, the Great Society...
...Artists prosper," says Rickey, "but it becomes no clearer what art is. To present a Swedish roller bearing as art is at least as plausible as Warhol's presenting a commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art demonstrates, lies in subordinating the precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that...
...Warhol's style, on the other hand, is distinctly unexpressive and unindividual. As he associates his paintings to the familiar surroundings of his viewer--spatially and with the objects he represents--he also attempts to remove any sign of individual or personal involvement in production. The idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to random viewer. Some of his early pieces--like the dollar bills--are made with a rubber stamp, but more re- cently he has begun to reproduce his paintings with silk screen. For Warhol...
...Warhol paintings, because they lack any quality of illusion, or personal emotional involvement, are decorative rather than imaginative experiences for the viewer. But seen in this light, they demonstrate taste and skill. Their bright colors and attractive design put them in a class with Danish furniture or Florentine leather; they improve the visual quaity of our environment and perhaps they even stimulate an examination of everyday surroundings in terms of aesthetic values. They do not, however, intend to evoke the imaginative emotional response which is experienced through literature or traditional styles of painting...
...Warhol's art-work does not present itself as a challenge to the eclat of Da Vinci and Rembrandt. Rather than attempting to sweep the viewer into the inventive world of the artist, Warhol's painting is a creative attempt to bring a sense of color and design back into daily life