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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, February 26, 1948
New Trends Replace
Wartime Escapist Art
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amid newly-arrived crates containing oil paintings to be displayed
in the annual Nebraska Art Association exhibit which opens Sun
day in Morrill Hall. The show will feature contemporary art
from the western hemisphere.
BY rilVL MA HER
After ten years of selecting art
exhibits for Nebraska from gal
Jencs throughout the United
States, Dwight Kirsh, director of
the university art galleries, be
lieves that noticeable past trends
in American art have given way
10 new developments.
Shown in both the manner of
expression and in technique, these
movements are evident in the
forthcoming Nebraska Art Asso
ciation exhibit opening Sunday,
reo. z in the Morrill Hall gal
leries.
Because the body of American
ri is as carious as the person
alities mat make up its people,
fit is difficult to form any blank
et opinion of American art as
such," Kirsh said yesterday at
an interview. It is equally dif
ficult to organize the exhibit be
cause the art work does not nat
urally fall into any specific
categories.
"Before the last war, patterns
of art were related to events an
ticipatfng the military crisis. The
uneasiness of the people was re
flected in the work of the art
ists." Wartime art took the shape
either of gloominess or. escap
ism. Hence, the escapist revival
of mid-victorian art, romantic
tendencies, and surrealism ele
ments. This tendency was preva
lent in other fields of endeavor,
as well as artistic.
Since the war, art has changed
in iwo general ways. There is
less of the romantic psr.mUm
found in the pre-war art. More
aostraciions are found in the gal
leries IniS vear Whirh Mr Kirch
believes to be the artist's Hociro
to put order in the world oter
a world crisis. In this way, art
nas laKen a turn simn.ir in fv,t
or World War I. There has been
a "reincarnation of cubism,"
wnn the main difference twinn
that modern art is less cold, less
oci i Derate.
Mr. Kirsh believes that art nnur
is more vigorous mn
turous. Current expressionism is
strong and has more color and
experimentation than th nnVinni
cubist art. One weakness of early
American art, the failure to adopt
superior forms of technique used
DV t,ur0Deans. has hrn roma
aiea 10 some extent, Kirsh com
ments. Better use of color and
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