ABSTRACT
The character of an artist's fantasy cannot, in itself, guarantee the quality of his art, yet there are cases where the power of a highly personal fantasy so completely asserts itself as the dominant element in an artist's work that all other considerations are relegated to second place. The imagery of Mr. Richard Lindner art is dominated by female figures of an icy voluptuousness—figures whose exaggerated physical endowments answer to the needs of the most commonplace sexual wish fulfillment at the same time that the peculiarities of their various costumes hint at more specialized appetites. Mr. Lindner is a very expert handler of pictorial form and a draftsman of distinction, yet he holds our interest principally as an image-maker, and his images are not the sort that invite one to linger over whatever formal strategies have been invested in their realization.
