Abstract

Art

The article presents information about various artists, the exhibitions of whose works are presently running in various art galleries of the U.S. One would have expected Henry Moore's drawings to be good, knowing his sculpture, but who could have imagined how wonderful they would be, how delicate the color and the line! One of the few things that can be said for this war is that it has forced him to draw. Max Ernst's current show lacks evidence of his usually fertile imagination. The pictures are monotonously repetitious, and their smooth tubular shapes somehow suggest that they should be sold under the counter like rubber goods. Some of these items of Herbert Matter are straightforward photographs, some are surrealist in spirit, and some a mixture of the two, but all are excellent-dear, direct, and with a sense of poetry to ensnare the onlooker.