The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-30

OuCG mag uiuSCAI uil4uS.
Any fair minded person would
Plastics popped up with their invi
anonymity it was virtually impossi
statues from the hands OF undaunt
upon its throne and an impulse to
1t was said yesterday that Hezekiah
J. WHEREFORE, prominent citizen of
North Salem. N. Y, came out of the
show convinced that he was a goldfish
and demanding information as to
where he could find tadpole to play
with. That gives a rough notion of
the effect the exhibition was apt to
have upon some minds before the lat
est invitation to lunacy showed up.
Now, however, one would no more
accuse Edwin Booth Cheeseman's Nude
Girl at Window" land one of the
things that hits you where you try to
keep the answers to important puzzles
Is what a remarkable way these ladies
shown by the Independents have Of
sitting around in the public parks or
promenading down Fifth avenue with
out stitch) of being wild and nutty
after looking at Alas "Zeus Address
ing Nude With Knitted Gauntlets"
than one would so accuse William M.
Chase or John Sargent. And after
giving the once over to Ats "An
Undraped Auto Wreck in Elysium"
and recovering from the vertigo and
dizziness induced by that singular
composition one begins to comprehend
what these fellows are getting at
wild Women Mt Play.
AS the determined dame who was
dragging a perfectly hopeless and dis
couraged male with her through the
maze of galleries said: you've simply
gotta feel these things, Walterv' Take
A-56's "Wild Women at Play" Any
body might be forgiven the first time
for assuming at once that ASS had made
a remarkably faithful portrait OF a
mess of poached eggs. 1t Is only at
second glance that you get the feel Of
it and you realize that A-56 has put
over a whale of an idea. Virtually the
same thing may be said of A-37s dream
picture No. 16 in the Psycho-P Plastic
show. entitled Study of Little Alice
Hitting the Pipe"
You may want to know possibly why
the geniuses OF the new group conceal
under mechanical designations, like that
of submarine, names already glowing
with the splendor of fame 1t is because.
as a member OF the group pointed out
yesterday with rare patience (as great
minds instruct infancy or wrestle with
idiocy) the Psycho-Plastics hold that az
all aesthetic emotions and inspirations
have their origin not in the soul of the
artist or the beholder. but in the circum-
ambient ether that envelops their per-
ha ffcf If c1, txa
impersonal in his life work.
Consequently the Psycho-Plastics
have suppressed their names entirely
and arc known only by symbols identi-
fed by the head of the group and them
selves alone. In giving titles to their
pictures they have followed the same
idea. Tho titles that appear are not
the real titles These are secret. They
are titles which the artist changes from
time to time. This is merely one of the
devices by which the ultra-independ-
vulgar world of money.
yisfbt1ists and InvIsibiiists.
The group is really two groups. WISH
bilists and Invisibilists. The latter are
Just what their description of them
selves implies. Genius with them Is
carried to such height, is spun out to
such a tenuous thread that you can't
see their pictures at all. Get this clear.
the art OF the Visibles is space art
appealing to the eye through forms ex-
isting in space. The art Of the Invis-
ibilists is an ultra-dimensionai. tenn
pora1 spatial art, appealing not to sepa-
rate sense organs but the residue OF I'M
differentiated sensitivity. that is to say.
their art Is synaesthetic.
a1,at, Itx,-~
this it Is entirely possible that you
might muff what the boys and girls of
the group are getting at. and one hates
to pull bone in these highbrow resorts.
The Invisibilists do their stuff without
studio, paint, palette. brush. canvas or
model. They just sit and think ard
think And then they draw a square
upon sheet of paper and pin it upon
the wall and call 1t God Bless Our
Homebrew," and there you are.
or course the toughest part OF their
art is selling 1t because there are so
many dull and ordinary minds in the
world that not everybody can hook up
with the Invisbilists and get the feel Of
it right away. as the lady said to
Walter. and be ready to plank down
real money for sample Of IT,
The Psyche Piastics. both visibilists
and Invisbilsts, differ also from old
time and slavish art groups and schools
in that they reject all literature history.
archaeology, geology or folklore. They
just throw that silly old stuff into the
ashcan. With them everything. IL you
get what one means. Is internal SYM
bolism, the putting down in form, color.
shape or symbol of something that will
arouse the pure emotion of the thing
seen.
Internal realism protects the public
from the impure emotions too often.
alas aroused in their bosoms by the
debasing brutality OF the spectacle Of
the nude human figure. II Is held, too.
that emotions are motions in the human
organism and that these motions are
started going physically. the energy
evolving out OF the psychic ether which
envelopes the personality OF the artist.
Certainly no one should fail to see
AGES great study. Nude Shooting a
Mule" 1t renews ones belief in capt.
tai punishment.