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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 6, 2000
performing arts
Tonight:
The Woolgatherer, 8 p.m. at Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. $4, students; $8, public; $7, senior citizens.
Friday;
**Donald Byrd's JazzTrain, B p.m. at the Lied Center, $10-$19.**
The Rape of Lucretia, 7:30 p.m. at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 964 Highway 40, $6.
Saturday:
Mandefest, 8 p.m. at Liberty Hall, 642
Massachusetts St., $10, all ages.
Spencer art exhibit captures feeling of jazz
The Rape of Lucretia, 7:30 p.m. at St.
Margaret's Episcopal Church, 964 Highway
40, $6.
Donald Byrd's 'JazzTrain,' 8 p.m., at the Lied Center, $10-$19.
Sunday:
- The Rape of Luretta, 7:30 p.m. at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 964 Highway 40, $6.
Monday:
University of Kansas Symphonic Band, 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center, $4 for students and senior citizens; $5 for the public.
Wednesday:
university Band and Concert Band concert;
7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center, $4 for students and senior citizens; $5 for the public.
By Paula Spreitzer Special to the Kansan
As musicians take the stage in the JazzTrain performance at the Lied Center, the Spencer Museum of Art also explores the spirit of jazz with its latest exhibit.
Henri Matisse's Jazz consists of 20 colorful images that Matisse created using paper cutouts, which were then reproduced using a stencil process and formed into a book in 1947. The exhibit opened April 1 and runs through May 21.
Stephen Goddard, the museum's senior curator, said that since the 1850s, Matisse's decoupages, which actually depict circus imagery, have become one of the visual representations of the musical form because they are so well-known.
"We tend to automatically equate the two," Goddard said. Goddard will lead a tour of the exhibit at the museum at 12:53 today in the North Balcony Gallery on the fourth floor.
Goddard explained that relating music to visual arts is part of a trend among 20th century artists, including Matisse and his contemporaries during the first part of the century, in which they crossed the boundaries of the senses. Artists mingled text, images and sound, so that one could "hear" color or "see" music, Goddard said.
While juxtaposing those different forms may not have been Matisse's primary goal, Goddard said Matisse was aware of the concept.
Something evident in Matisse's work is his attention to color and the way it operates with form. Rich hues of blue and purple contrast bright yellow and stark white in Matisse's images.
"His color choices are extremely thoughtful, so thoughtful that he didn't use colored paper," Goddard said. "He tinted paper to get the exact hues he wanted."
A method of stenciling, called pochoir, was used to reproduce Matisse's works because it allowed the use of ink similar to that which Matisse used to tint the paper. In the pochoir process, the stencil is placed on paper and a thick brush is used to apply the pigment.
Matisse's "The Horse, the Rider and the Clown"
Matisse created the images in 1942 when he was 73. After an illness confined him to bed, he pinned compositions of shapes cut out of paper to the wall of his bedroom. It was those images that became Jazz when his assistant translated them into lithographs using the pochoir method.
The images include some of the more challenging subjects that Matisse explored in his art. Unlike most of Matisse's previous works, *Jazz* wrestles with issues of mortality, Goddard said.
"It was a time in his life when his family was sick and he was experiencing difficulties from the Nazi Regime," Goddard said.
There may be some significance in the fact that Matisse uses the American concept of jazz for inspiration, Goddard said.
"One could at least ask whether his choice to evoke an American idiom after the closing of the horrendous World War II, in a word that's not necessarily English but transcultural, is significant," he said. "At the end of World War II, jazz evokes an ideal of freedom."
In conjunction with the exhibit, the art museum's lecture series, KU Perspectives, will bring in professors from
Matisse's "Icarus" Photos courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art
departments ranging from Art and Design to French and Italian to offer their take on Matisse's art, said Sally Hayden, director of public relations for the art museum.
Chuck Berg, theater and film professor and jazz musician, will speak at the next KU Perspectives at the museum at 3:03 p.m., Wednesday, April 12. He also will perform with his quartet at the museum at 7 p.m. May 4.
The "King of Swing" Dave Stephens and his Swing Orchestra
Sunday, April 9th, 2000 8-12 P.M. at The Dance Academy 1117 Mass.
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