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Still Modern, After 100 Years THE TM 911 Franklin Street Weekly Newspaper Michigan City, IN 46360 Volume 29, Number 5 Thursday, February 7, 2013 Still Modern, After 100 Years by Barbara Stodola Is it possible that 25 years have already gone by? Then 50? 100? Can it really be 100? Anniversary years, besides calling to mind the amazingly swift passage of time, give us the grand opportunity to re- fl ect on differences, often troubling differences, between how it was then and how it is now. In no case is the comparison more timely than with Mod- ern Art, which has chalked up important anniversaries these past few years. Here comes another – February 17, 2013, 100 years since the New York Armory Show opened and caught the American public off-guard by displaying the world’s most shocking art being produced, most of it straight from Europe. After this show, the American art world was never the same. Picasso’s bronze head (1909), now owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, shocked viewers with its harsh, angled features, rather than the softly polished marble typically used to sculpt female faces and fi gures. Picasso, Matisse, Duch- amp, Munch, Kandinsky – names now enshrined as leaders of the modern move- ment – were seen by many Americans for the fi rst time and the viewers were, pre- dictably, shocked. John Sloan’s “Sunday, Girls Drying Their Hair,” was representative of New York’s Ash Can School – so called because of the unrefi ned character of its subjects. Sloan, allied with Armory Show leaders, was Still Modern Continued on Page 2 at odds with New York’s academic painters. THE Page 2 February 7, 2013 THE 911 Franklin Street • Michigan City, IN 46360 219/879-0088 • FAX 219/879-8070 In Case Of Emergency, Dial e-mail: News/Articles - [email protected] email: Classifieds - [email protected] http://www.thebeacher.com/ PRINTED WITH Published and Printed by TM Trademark of American Soybean Association THE BEACHER BUSINESS PRINTERS Delivered weekly, free of charge to Birch Tree Farms, Duneland Beach, Grand Beach, Hidden 911 Shores, Long Beach, Michiana Shores, Michiana MI and Shoreland Hills. The Beacher is also delivered to public places in Michigan City, New Buffalo, LaPorte and Sheridan Beach. The Armory Show, for one thing, did not come William Merritt Chase’s into being with the blessings of respected collectors portrait of his or museums. A small group of moderately success- wife (1910) ful New York artists, working outside the academic was the type of painting mainstream – originally four, soon expanded to six- the Armory teen – banded together to form the Association of Show meant American Painters and Sculptors, for the purpose of to discredit, as “old- exhibiting non-academic art. Arthur Bowen Davies fashioned.” became president and Walt Kuhn secretary. They Chase, an acquired the 69th Regiment National Guard Ar- Indiana native who had risen mory for their exhibit, because it was the only place to academic large enough to prove their point. The Armory Show acclaim in hung for one month, then traveled briefl y to Chi- New York City, was cago and Boston. Not long afterward, the Associa- snubbed by tion of American Painters and Sculptors disbanded, Armory Show leaving its monumental achievement to history. organizers. Still Modern Continued from Page 1 Anybody who follows the contemporary art scene ever so slightly must realize that shock value has become so important a part of the experience that we doubt whether any values yet remain, in the year 2013, to be trampled. In this centennial year, I cannot help but wonder what it must have taken to shock the art-going public 100 years ago. Certainly not nudity. The paintings of Titian, Mi- chelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Ingres – ancient Greek and Roman deities, immortalized in stone – risque art photographs from the 1890s – whatever the medium or era, nude fi gures have been fair game. American audi- ences, though charged with prudishness and cultural backwardness, knew the difference between a masterpiece and a charade – or so they thought, until this Paul Cezanne’s “Woman With Rosary,” depicting an elderly peasant woman, had the highest price-tag: $48,000. It is now in the National challenge of 1913. Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Most amazing is the fact that the Armory Show happened at all. It started with no money, no home, no patronage, nothing but vision and determina- Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” (1912), the butt of tion, and evolved into a ground-breaking exhibit of many jokes, was described as more than 1,200 works of art – all within a whirl- “a dynamited suit of Japanese wind period of 14 months. armor” and “an explosion in a shingle factory.” It is now in the The new armory building on Lexington Avenue, Philadelphia Museum of Art. though totally unequipped for an art exhibition, THE February 7, 2013 Page 3 Cabinets • Carpet • Ceramic Tile • Wood • Countertops • Closets • Blinds Blinds... Blinds... & More Blinds... Incredible Deals on Name Brand The star of the Armory Show was French symbolist Odilon Redon, who sold 13 of his paintings. “Le Silence” (1911), bought by New York collector Lillie Bliss, is now at the Museum of Modern Art. Window Treatments... was transformed into a mammoth gallery with Save 50% on most styles... 2,400 running feet of exhibition space and special- ly-devised lighting. According to a pre-arranged Save on Professional Installation plan, the cavernous space was divided into eighteen Free Estimates and In-Home Measuring octagonal rooms made of canvas-covered panels. Sale ends soon… Do not pass up Paintings arrived from dozens of sources – art deal- ers, collectors, avant-garde artists from America these Incredible Duneland Deals… and from abroad – then had to be uncrated, affi xed to the walls, and labeled. One hundred and fi fty men Carpet... were employed to accomplish this feat. Their work was coordinated and completed within fi ve days. Carpet... The ambitious size and scope of this undertak- ing attracted plenty of news coverage, and soon & More Carpet... the Armory was packed to capacity with regular art patrons and just-plain-curious. In its New York You will get more carpet for less from Duneland showing, an estimated 70,000 visitors paid admis- Home. We will provide Basic Carpet installation for sion fees – a number far surpassed by Chicago at- 1 room or the entire House for just $97.00 for tendance fi gures of 188,650, due partly to free ad- basic carpet installation (see details below) when your mission days. In any case, the totals are staggering: purchase select Carpet Styles and up-grade your a quarter of a million Americans waiting in lines Carpet padding to Duneland Home Spill Guard Carpet to see the newest trends in art. Did they like what Padding… they saw? Not really. Basic Carpet Installation includes installation of new carpeting, Still Modern Continued on Page 3 and carpet padding only… You will be charged for the following services if needed… The services below are not included in the basic installation cost you will incur additional cost if these services are required.... Furniture Moving • Installation on Steps Removing of old carpeting and carpet padding... Installation of any Metal carpet bar... Sale ends soon so Hurry… do not take a pass on this Incredible deal… Arthur Bowen Davies’ Drawing (1911) of a fl irty young woman, though less outrageous than Matisse, was more revealing and seductive than academic New York portraits. THE Page 4 February 7, 2013 “La Danse a la Source” (1912) was painted by Francis Picabia, one of the French Cubists cited for the intellectual content and subtle colors of their work. Still Modern Continued from Page 3 Cubist paintings were so far out, so unrecogniz- able that they simply bewildered the viewers. Picas- so had one sculpted head based on Cubist principles and a few small paintings, but the leader of this movement was perceived to be Picabia. Duchamp’s futurist-leaning “Nude Descending A Staircase” American artist Stuart Davis, invited to participate, submitted “Babe La drew the most attention and the most jokes, largely Tour” (1912), a raucous and titillating off-stage scene. because of its provocative title. What saved the day was the positive reaction The severest criticism was directed at Henri from a new generation of artists who realized – as Matisse, whose nude fi gures were derided as “per- Davies, Kuhn and other progressives anticipated – fectly childish, crude and amateurish”…“essentially that art was heading down a new path. The Armory epileptic.” He was accused of choosing “the ugliest Show sounded a rousing wake-up call, and Ameri- models” and posing them “in the most grotesque can artists did not want to be left behind. and indecent poses.” Even Harriet Monroe, who In commemoration of this landmark event, the later converted to Modernism, wrote in the Chicago Art Institute of Chicago is featuring the works of Tribune of Matisse’s “hideous monstrosities.” Pablo Picasso, who had a special relationship with In other words, what critics saw, as well as the the city of Chicago. The exhibit will run from Febru- general public, did not conform to their notions of ary 20 thru May 12 and include special fi lms, dance Beauty. Modern art was doing the unthinkable, at- programs, a symposium and lectures – one of which, tacking long-established standards of Beauty. Crit- on March 28, is titled, “The 1913 Armory Show and ics described it as “revolutionary,” a term the public Chicago Collectors.” identifi ed with anarchy and bomb-throwing. It was The Beacher will cover the Picasso exhibit after it not only ugly but dangerous.
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