Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1951 — Page 8
‘Art Is for Everyone’
Offers Deft Handling
Of Difficult Field
"ART IS FOR EVERYONE." By Martha § mpson. New York, Mec-| PT
Graw-Hill, $3.50.
By HENRY BUTLER
MARTHA SIMPSON'S “Art Is for Everyone’ is an ex-| ample of the best: kindof popular writing in a difficult field. Miss Simpson's discussion of art .vis-a-vis the laym
avoids the .simple-explanatio
popular magazines. It avoids also the Jargon and pedantry. .e LY ¥
"of too many experts. The problem she starts with is an old one: What is art, and what are its aims? It seems to me she has done a better job with that tough’&ssignment than any other recent writer
I've read. I recall no other discussion of the whole matter of “representative” and “abstract”
trends that seemed so clear and persuasive, n MISS SIMPSON, herself an artist of wide experience, reminds us how. easily laymen mistake the shadow for the substance—how
readily they judge a painting for its resemblance to nature rather than for its emotional content. Without getting too far involved
” n
Martha Simpson
in the ‘profound philosophical problem of appearance and real-| ity, she nevertheless makes clear| to lay readers that the problem is|
ence.
fundamental to our entire srt Wa rm Story
+ A painting is not the object,"THE SALT BOX." B
painted. That may seem too ob-| vious for statement, and yet it's a| source of a great deal of confu-| sfon in the lay attitude toward)
art. etal elisa
"LET'S TAKE an example Miss, Simpson doesn’t use—an example
here in Indiana. A nice sentimental autumn landscape painted in Brown County may be easily illentifiable as representing this or that orchard, hillside or woodland stream. From a scientific view-| point, however. it is just as much an abstraction as the
portion of the total reality. None
of us could grasp all the reality Warm, in that scene (biological, geologi-|{Whose very eccentricities make cal, botanical, and soon). The/them plausible. Here is a book |
1
(usually sugar-coated tales but-| [tressed by conclusions gathered on the author's latest trip to an analyst.
{first book concerns her early days /in her native Nova Scotia. Her| \three sisters and older brother are near orphans, their mother having died and their father, a wildest| Sentleman,” spends his time in Kandinsky. It “abstracts” from British Columbia seeking wealth the actual Brown County scene a|and being a gentleman.
n kind of. thing you find"
in children’s art now is: better understood to be profoundly revealing —more significant, in fact, than the most facile conventional work done by ‘sophisticated’ adults who have sold their own youthful creativity down the river:
There is a time, Miss Simpson reminds us, when ‘most of us cease forever to be artists and unfortunately cease forever to he interested in art. We want to conform, we want to be accepted, and the opinions ard value judgments of those around us become important to us.” n n IT'S THE POINT, she admits elsewhere, at which the baneful
influence lot commercialism is
most operative. Most of us simply,
give up trying to be creative, falling back on cheap, ready-made substitutes for our own originality. And in her capsule biogra-
|phies of imaginary “typical” art- scientific here is your book: “How
among About the Weather,” by Robert other things, the not always con-'mMoore Fisher.
ists, she makes clear,
sistent correlation of ‘talent and success. .
Her tactful persuasiveness is
Weather Bureau of New York, especially apparent in her treat- manages very neatly to bring the
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The author, chief of the U. S.
ment of us philistines. She doesn’t|complexities of weather forécast-
think it’s funny that we should ing into terms that the ordinary prefer Norman Rockwell to Pi-|reader can understand. It is, in casso. She thinks it’s sad. And|fact, for the-lay reader. Do not confuse the book with “Watch helpful program for extending our Out For the Weather” which tells how weather shapes your moods Some 24 pages of well-chosen and emations? E. P,
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'Salt Box’
y Jan Hilliard. New York, Norton, $3. :
By HAMPTON McKENNEY CHILDHOOD reminiscences are
Not so with Jan Hilliard, whose
“The Salt Box” is replete with entertaining characters
painter, if he’s trained in -the|that recalls vividly the joys of | Brown County tradition, probably “the good old days” and what at |
will suffuse his design with athe time seemed ma
pleasant, nostalgic, hazy quality of feeling as easy to grasp as the music of Carrie Jacobs Bond. The emotion, however hackneyed, in any work of art is a major ingredient, Even when art is deliberately made a kind of color photography, like a homely or humorous scene on a Saturday Evening Post cover, it still has only fragmentary value as a record of reality. Feeling -—the artist's feeling — is more important than representation, even-in-the-most obviousart. » “ = FOR MOST of us laymen, art can be arranged on a kind of sliding scale of intelligibility with| someone like Norman Rockwell at one end and someone like Picasso at the other. Progress in appreciation generally is from the obvious to the less and less obvious, as in poetry or music. Miss Simpson's book is concerned with how that progress may be accelerated. Her discussion of children’s drawing and painting compresses a good deal of knowledge into brief space. One point I'd never run across before i= her statement that children all over the world learn to draw and paint in certain fairly uniform patterns of progress. Oriental or Occidental, a child will go through certain predictable stages of artistic progress as he learns to express his experience in the symbols of art. ” ” ” AT NO TIME in the process, Miss Simpson tells us, is representation more important than feeling. What the child draws and paints is what he feels about life. If he chooses to symbolize the human hand as a circle completely surrounded by numerous
fingers, that’s because the hand
seems a grasping device. What adults used to consider “naive”
jor catas-
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