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Wednesday, March 31, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Local Artists' Work Displayed at Watson
By WALTER LIETZEN
Kansan Staff Writer
The Art Library in Watson has found a way to bring the huge bare walls of the third floor lobby together. Paintingts from the museum can be displayed and give the bar-like lobby an art gallery appearance.
"It is even better than a gallery," said Edward A. Gauthier, teaching assistant at the Museum of Art, paintings are not as crowded as they would be in a gallery exhibit. This lets the walls serve as a second window.
Gauthier has studied at the Sorbonne university in Bordeaux, Orléans and Brest University. State University and Wayne State University in Detroit. He is a member of the Ph.D. faculty.
ON ENTERING the third floor baby toy Gatherer's hand in place "Have an art face in the painting is smiling and happy in the glass champagne bottle."
Looking past the happy smile you notice that the face is blank It has an animated, empty look
The index finger of his left hand is pointing down, signifying evil. The index finger of his other hand—if you have talked with the artist, you notice that he has two fingers pointing up, signifying good.
The background is done in strong emotional colors of red, orange and yellow, shades of shadows that make the major-domo stand out in the picture. Although he stands out from the background, he is still connected to it.
THE PAINTING is expressive of thought of the School of the New Renaissance Brotherhood which was started about three years ago by Howard A. State University in Detroit.
The New Renaissance asserts positive values that are not necessarily new but which assert ideological and timeless values. Gauthier's "Gray Center" expresses positive values. It is a killer graphic of the strong geometric progression from white to gray to black.
Landscape II by Gauthier is strong in emotional content. It pictures a landscape from another world in which the sky is red and yellow. It is a non-natural landscape of a different world.
IT'S EMOTIONAL and depicts violence with excitement set in the spectrum of color.
Ballet Theater To Play K. C.
This Weekend
The American Ballet Theater will play a three-performance engagement Friday and day at Kansas City's Music Hall.
The company will perform a repertoire program at 8 p.m. Friday. They will give two performances of "Swan Lake," at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. They will feature two separate cases.
Kansas City will be the final stop of a 14-city tour for the American Ballet Theatre. They have scheduled 6-week tours at the New York State Theater's Lincoln Center beginning June 29.
Contra striking with the emotional impact of Gauther's paintings are three pictures by Nan Hill. She graduated from State University with a degree in English. She is now working in the Art Library. She started painting after graduation and has been taught by Wendy Weinarding, notably Howard Wienarding.
Miss Hill paints in the style of the old masters, putting layer upon layer of paint on paper. Her "Mescalito in Kansas" has a soft musical quality Mescalito, a folk artist, seems to dominate the picture
THE PAINTING shows a tree in the middle of a field at midnight. The purple, blue and blue-green colors which show no evidence of fire are a mystical aura that seems to catch a black magic feeling.
Miss Hill said the inspiration for the painting came as she sat on the front porch of her home on a moonless evening morn greet over the horizon.
Martha Kehde, an Art Library assistant, said the art exhibit gave the library "a more visually pleasant environment."
She said the library hoped to include sculpture, weaving, ceramics, silver and other types of art work in future exhibits.
Record Reviews
By BION BEEBE Kansan Reviewer
Two recent albums demonstrate very well the opposite of the success of today's music. One of the albums represents the better part of popular music while the other album goes to the opposite side.
The quiet type of sound that seems to be replacing the loud, noisy music is demonstrated very well in "MacDonald and Giles" on the other hand. 'Fanny' is an example of yesterday's music.
"MacDonald and Giles" is a good album and illustrates the wide variety of talents its two band members have played. Donald plays guitar, piano, organ, saxophone, flute, clarinet and zither, and also sings. Michael Gilles plays drums and bass. David Wickham plays bottle, handdrawn, etc.) and sings.
Others who perform on the record are Peter Giles on bass and Michael Blakesey on piano and Michael Blakesey, who plays a frombone sol in one of his songs.
The album begins with a fairly long number called Suite in C. It I, the first song, and moods these two can create. It has a few background vocals but is mostly instrumental. And it has one really special song, which is a short song, "Is She Waiting?"
that captures the feeling of wistfulness and longing.
Side two is made up of one long song entitled "Birdman." It tells of a man who flying and finally does. There are special effects and weird music throughout this number. The sequence is especially pretty.
"Fanny," unfortunately, is not this type of album. After hearing the first song there is no need to listen to any more. All the songs are varied and the variety of the type of song they sing is not that good to begin with.
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The group is made up of four girls who appear from the picture on the cover to be sophomores or in high school. They sound like five-years ago they might have had a chance, but not today.
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