The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Art in indianapolis
by ANTON SCHERRER

FOOTBALL coaches have different ways of kill
l. ing time between playing seasons Robert Carl
Cup Zuppke of Illinois paints pictures for in
stance So does Glenn Scobe (Pop) Warner of
Stanford.
Coach Elmer Layden of Notre Dame, doubt
will get around to painting, too, of these days
When he does it's dollars 10 doughnuts that his pic
lures will have of Zups weird color none OF
Pops tight drawing.
Our bunch is that they will be like those
of Emil jacques, whose one-man show is now on
view at the Eerron. Emil Jacques is dean of Notre
Danes Department of Fine Arts.
DROP. JACQUES, of Flemish origin, has been in
L. America since 1923-long enough to want to
paint it,
Heron habtues, aware of what to expect Of
painters out to do the American Scene, were puzzled
to find not sign of a silo or tumble down barn
cyclone cellar in any of the professors pictures
Perhaps, the American Scene has another side,
too The irony is that foreigners see it first.
What puzzled many even more were Prof.
jacques studies for set of murals designed for a
Western church. Technically they were painted
with passion for precision. Emotionally, they
rendered with little, if any, passion. At any rate,
they lacked the fervor and ardor of the great reli-
gious paintings the church sponsored.
Nevertheless they were such welcome depar-
ture from the kind of art" American church-goers
have been compelled to put up with, that many
people and especially architects - wondered
whether the church might not, after ALL be the
right track again.
MYTH Mrs. Chester Dale at one end of the con-
w troversy shouting that Pcasso is "a god"
and with Thomas Craven, at the other end Of the
line shouting just hard, if anything, that he
is "the Snowman of a cock-eyed cult, it isn't very
important perhaps, what anybody else thinks OF
the small collection of Pcassos on the walls of the
Heron this month
What is important is the fact that Picasso shows
signs of FORGETTING his apparently position
Nobody has been able to laugh that off.
Picasso began painting 35 years ago, began in
fuencing modern art almost Immediately. Gifted
with extraordinary technical ability and Spanish
Italian mental equipment he discovered at the very
start, that he could initiate anybodys painting He
began initiating Tououse-Lautrec and Daumier
drfted under the spell OF modern thought and tall
tabletalk into what his critics call his periods
Always changing his mental moods and STYLE he
developed his Blue Period his Red Period his Neo-
Antique Period his Negro Period and his Abstract
Period which itself mostly with the strange
behavior of warped guitars and dizzy geometricaI
shapes. At one time another, he became in
volved in objective painting and cubism chucked
beth to take up subjective painting and surrealss.
Nobody knows what he still has up his sleeve
Conservative critics concede Picassos ability as
a maker OF patterns, rate him below Matisse and
Cezanne Cautious collectors sense his dexterity OF
line buy his prints on that account Any estimate
of him, however, which considers him only as an
artist of technical ability must necessarily fall
short of the mark. If We may be allowed guess,
it is period personality possibly psychologist
cal phenomenon, that Picasso win be finally judged.