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of New York art
two of a series.
by Joseph Glazer
One more thing about the
Picaaso Retrospective Exhibition
at the Muscumof Modem Art this
summer. The other New York
museums hare - accepted tile
challenge. They do compete. The
venerable Metropolitan has
assembled an exhibit of
impressionist paintings like in,
dreams: text-book examples of
almost every important painter of
the era—Renoirs. Pissaros,
Manets, Monets, Cezannes.,.
everybody. Anti at the ultra
modern Guggenheim, up the
street, the place was loaded with
what came next: Legers,
Lichtensteins, Kandinskys,
Gottliebs, Rauschenbergs,
Chagalls.
Don't be surprised, but the real
“far-out" ones stir the genes in my
Jewish soul. You can't mistake the
release, as from bondage, in the
splash of color displayed inside
Frank Lloyd Wright’s “flower
pot" structure. It’s as if once and
for all art has gotten rid of the
strictures of literal likenesses. It's
something like Father Abraham
suddenly breaking Terach's idols
and turning to the true God. The
post-impressionists at the
Guggenheim don’t have to deify
Caesar any more, the lords and
ladies in castles, or Secretary
Stalin on every square across
Russia. These artists are free. They
paint for the pure color of it, for
the joy of it, for the sake of
composition itself. No wonder
many Jews are in the group This is
home. In non-objective painting
there is, i think, this heeding of the
Second Commandment which
prophetically foresaw the potential
for blowing up human likenesses
into false gods.
i stood there meditating over a
Jackson Pollock. Once i saw this
artist doing an instant painting on
TV, dripping paint on a canvas,
smearing splotches here and there,
tying everything up with a few
stringy lines...making a picture. 1
felt myself suddenly thankful for
his daring comfortable work. Was
I seeing our bits and pieces of
random living framed like a
pattern? ^as Pollock suggesting
the possibility of meaning in
chaotic modern life? I greeted the
prospect with open arras.
And at the Metropolitan
Museum the crowds looked like on
High Holidays. Here the curator
was obviously trying to steal the
show. I remembered the classic
story of the merchant who put up a
big arrow over his door pointing
“Main Entrance" when his
neighbors were having their
annual sales. There were many
extras here too. The new glassed-in
wing is architecture itself, and in
one section of it there was
displayed the special exhibition
from the People’s Republic of
China—which soon will be
travelling to other American cities.
I saw myself smiling at the
legend explaining that this
venerable emperor had agreed to
sfeep In death only with the
assurance that his standing army-
more than seven thousand men—
he buried with him. At the Met, a
life-size grouping of a half-dozen
“substitute" terra-cotta warriors
and horses posed there “guarding"
him. standing in for the real live
ones who not too many years
earlier actually would have been
interred with him. This was about
the time when our.Abraham was
starting out for his historic trip to
Canaan. Human vanity dates back
that far.
Two French women given
‘Righteous Gentile’ award
NEW YORK (JTA)—The award of the "Righteous Gentile" was
presented last week to Jeanne Bonhomme of St. Etienne. France, and to
her late mother by the Consul General of Israel, Paul Kedar, at a
ceremony at the Consulate General of Israel.
Both women went to great lengths to hide several members of the
Schanzer family from the Nazis during World War II at risk to their own
lives. On presenting the award, Kedar compared these acts of courage to
a “small beacon of light in the abysmal darkness of Eurippc at that time."
He praised Mrs. Bonhomme and her mother for their moral inner
strength and deep conviction of the human spirit which rekindled the
hope of so many Jews who were aided by such demonstrations of
dedication to humanity.
Mrs. Bonhomme, speaking in French, spoke of other members of the
family who aided her in her task and asked that they be honored as well.
Bernard and Heniy Schanzer, twin brothers, and their sister Anna
Steinberg, each movingly paid tribute to the two womeft who saved their
lives and described the care and companion they received from them
despite the hardships involved.
The ceremony was attended by members of the Schanzer family and
representatives of survivors' organizations.