Paintbrush & Sickle

He was used to finding Reds under the bed, but this was different. Last week Hearstling Columnist Paul Mallon took an off-duty peek beneath the crazy-quilt of modern art--and jumped. Said he, in an open letter to the boss (which was duly featured, without Mr. Hearst's reply, in the boss's papers):

"You, as a primary advocate of Americanism, should use all your resources in the press and magazine field to let the public get the facts. Today the public mind thinks of art in terms of medieval foreign masters. Our art is as good or better but it has not been similarly publicized. . . .

"Much modern art is psychologically Communistic. Picasso, who led this school, is a Communist. He gave eminence to the imaginative school of art in which the observer or buyer must imagine how well the artist conceived the painting, no matter how poorly he executed it or presented it. This is precisely the same process of the Communist political doctrine which requires the observer to imagine the non-existent beauties of a way of life which reality would disclose as far from sublime. It has blood on its hands."

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