Still Coming with Ca A Aid BY MILTON S. FOX er use nature as a point of technology could be guilty of departure for abstract composi- them. And to those circum- tions or copy her photographi- stances he has responded with cally with or without surrealist characteristic vehemence — for overtones. Rosenberg by con- he is entirely unlike those trast wishes to represent the painters who seem to create forces of nature. His interest is their landscapes or abstractions not in the configuration of an solely for the purpose of with- individual hill or the shape of drawing into them. Instead, he a single tree, but in the vibra- has boldly faced the facts of tion of light in the autumn life, as he has faced the facts woods, the slanting drive of of nature. Depression, mechani- rain, or the eerie effects of zation, tyranny and brutality — moonlight. There is little vari- the outrages and violences and ety of place but much of mood. dark moods of nature do. And Rosenberg uses many techni- in some of his pictures, not- ques to differentiate these ably those done after the trip moods: pastel to convey the op- to the Ardennes, there is a pressive moment just before savage contrast of moods in a the break of a storm, irregular grim marriage of , youthful dabs of pure color to represent death and springtime youth. . autumn leaves, pulverized mica Note this about Rosenberg's mixed into the pigment to sug- art: how remarkably he uses gest the glitter of snow. . . . It his repertory of technical is his search both for vividness means according to the subje and for intimacy which deter- and mood of the work. W. mines the personal quality of Constable, who recently reti Rosenberg's art. That quality as curator of painting at B has brought him recognition by ton's Museum of Fine Arts, sa American museums, some in a catalog for the Rosenberg twenty of which include his show at Wildenstein's in 1947 paintings in their permanent that this painter "the world is collections." a comple la re- Today the artist's works are sultin • m vast unde ing not only in museums, but also 1110 ents of which man h• in many private collections, em- is equally a conse e. bassies, colleges, libraries, hos e is always striving to, xpress pitals. Nobody—and least of an underlying unity behind the Rosenberg himself—knows visible world — not a comfort- nany or where they all ar able, har •nious unify, but that s been an extraordi ily of a d o lific painter, and a ge ous tempes . Through purchase • gift sugge an- t of the country's reat tic f his , since the thing eums — the Metrop tan, see is always interpreted • Museum of Fine A in ten s of a personal c on oston, the Cleveland Mus of the pattern ence. It of Art, the Fogg, the Smithso ovides an essent- ian Institution (which holds art ial link connecting the very un- for the National Gallery of Art varied types of work he has Ameri- in Washington until it becomes produced. The series of litho- y and most eligible for - inclusion), and graphs inspired by the slump landscapists eith- others, have acquired his work; that rocked the United States; and the list of regional collec- the paintings of Pittsburgh wit- tion where he is represented is' nessing the triumph of what he impressive. A few names at calls 'Troilism' in man's affairs; random: the Joslyn Memorial the 'Atomism' paintings here Art Museum of Omaha, the Nel- exhibited, foreshadowing what son Gallery-Atkins Museum of may be man's future in the grip Kansas City, the Walker Art of yet greater powers, are in Center of Minneapolis, the essence cut from the same kind Georgia Museum of Art in of cloth as the paintings made Specializing In Athens, Georgia, Smith, Dow- in the Adirondacks. ." doin, Tel-Aviv, Brandeis, and Business Machines This is also noted by Cha Harvard colleges, among others. C. Cunningham, direct he I have said earlier that Rosen- liemingtenRand Wadsworth Athe , in an- berg has always remained at- AUTHORIZED SALES—SERV10E other of the s exhibition tached to the world around him, catalogs: "E in a fundament- whether in the north woods or ally trag painting . . he 16844 SCHAEFER in Israel. But he does not let cannot ist a tulip r two us forget that this world in- DI 1-0661 the eground • t show his 741 2 W. McNICHOLS RD. cludes also some crimes against fait in tomorr 's sprin t humanity so vast and gruesome tim Rosenber eed UN 4-8727 that only an age of refined ro nticist and Set as wa called by th nguished, jus etired director of the 4") Clev -NievitiMark d Museum of Art • • Liam C OMPANY a . The point is, simply, that Rosenberg is an artist, with the SALE PRICED instinctive painter's gift for somehow being able to distill $ 1 9 S5 q. what he sees and feels, and Yd. then transmuting it into pig- ment. But pigment to which he $ 14 95 gives magic life and spirit, and Value uncommon richness, for he is a colorist primarily. No man has ever given himself more wholeheartedly to art; when he isn't "promoting" American art with his customary zeal and re- sourcefulness (he calls this his "unfinished business"), he is usually to be found in his studio surrounded by canvases await- ing his touch. You'll love wiggling your his plus pile, all ool carpet! But don't .1 . It is therefore finally right nkle-d • • , elegant it of the • R as that he' should appear before us as it • luxurious! The same d- se eep ou th loating feel.- as an artist, painting and fight- ing, also mean • g 0 our carpe • nd the WAL- ing for art in our world, and DORF's sk• woven, thick 3-pl rn gives you a especially in our own country practical, c ree carpet. where now so many are ready We have a limited a this all-wool carpet in to ignore that art has freed ••i sand an on sale now at $10.95 a square man from physical confinement yar long before the first sputnik beeped its way across the sky. James Rosenberg has been painting for almost fifty years. For at least ten years now he has been a professional artist in the sense that he has given most of the working day (and many, many working nights) to thinking, studying, supporting, and creating art. This astonish- ing man, who was a gifted amateur during the remote era of the William Howard Taft presidency, turned professiOnal at the age of seventy. And though his work has changed much since the early pictures reproduced in this book, he has never painted better than in these last few years, with a boldness and vigor, a technique and a vision which are still arresting despite the fact that most of his work is within what Sunday newspaper critics call "accepted idioms." He has always remained at- tached to the world around him, a painter "for 'whom the visible world exists." It is refreshing in this day when so much paint- ing is disturbing, self-mutilated (cutting away so many of the attractions which, historically, painters have offered us), or just plain sterile (however stylish it may be), to come upon the frank, direct, and accom- plished landscapes of a man who is awed by mou storms, encha and falling by the "T majority of Rosenberg's wo are landscapes," wrote J Midge, director of the li• t Mi is in- on to 1.11111113•11•1111•11r Don iss Our Special CARPET 'S es Off' —Nvutflikorcpriir C OMPAN Y Call to have carpet samples brought to your home. Free estimates and decorator ad- vice upon request. 7324 WEST 7 MILE Near Livernois UN 1-7980 .1.1111111111 ■ 11110 ■ Radio Free Europe maintains a news bureau in the United States and ten others in Europe. Roughly 50 per cent of RFE's programming consists of news and news analysis. Immigration into Israel, showing recent upsurge, passed the million mark as the New Year begins. 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