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Light Patterns, Naturalism Mark of French Baroque Art
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE—Charles Jacques Sterling at the humanities lecture. Sterling, curator of the Paris Museum, gave the Humanities Lecture last night in Fraser Hall.
The use of bright color, light patterns and a stress on naturalism were the main characteristics of French Baroque art in the 17th century.
These were the features attributed to it by Charles Jacques Sterling, curator of paintings at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the Humanities lecture last night.
A PAINTING that has an horizon lost in the sky, or one that is characterized by scenes with movement or disorder is typically Baroque, said Mr. Sterling.
He said the classical art of the period was characterized by deliberate organization and limitation of the scene by the painter.
Mr. Sterling described Georges LaTour as one of the greatest of the French Baroque painters of the 17th century.
The daylight scenes made use of a very bright, white light and rich colors, Mr. Sterling said. They depicted scenes and people naturally, without idealizing them.
HE SAID LaTOUR'S paintings could be divided into two groups, those depicting daylight scenes and those depicting night scenes.
The great masterpiece of LaTour, he said, was a daylight painting of a blind beggar with a severe linear style emphasizing the ferocity of his expression.
LIGHT IS ESSENTIAL to La-Tour's night scenes, said Mr. Sterling. He illustrated this point by showing a painting of Christ helping Joseph and holding a light. The light falls on their faces, which are close together, and the difference between their ages is emphasized, explained Mr. Sterling.
Mr. Sterling said differences between the styles of Dutch and Spanish painters and French painters were evident in the paintings of peasants.
He used slides of paintings to illustrate the differences pointing out that the Dutch and Spanish tended to characterize the peasants in their paintings with a kind of animal vitality.
THE FRENCH SCHOOL did not, he said. Instead the peasant was shown with an air of dignity.
In the area of still life paintings.
Mr. Sterling compared the French, Flemish and Soanish schools.
The Flemish painters included objects representing all five senses, he said. Their work was very precise. Objects such as flowers might have been chiseled out of metal.
The French painters used fewer objects in their still life paintings and did not use such precise detailed lines, he said. They also made use of light from a window or some other source to illuminate the objects in the picture.
The Spanish painters stressed light in their pictures even more than the French, Mr. Sterling said. They used a harsh illumination in their pictures to surprise the viewer with its realism.
Two Safe After Jet Bomber Crash
HURLEY, Wis. —(UPI)— Two of a B47 jet bomber's four crewmen parachuted to safety today moments before it crashed "in a ball of flames" in the desolate gile flowage near Hurley.
The shattered body of a third crew member was found at the crash scene. An intensive air and ground search was launched for the fourth crewman, who was presumed to be dead.
It was the second crash in this area in a little more than two months of a B47 from the 40th bomb wing at Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kan. Four men were killed in the first crash.
Both planes were on mock bombing runs.
One of the survivors was the pilot, Capt. Frank F. Mead III, of Orange, Calif.
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Goldwater Would Use Troops In Cuba Only as Last Resort
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —(UPI)— Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona would send U. S. troops into Cuba as a last resort but would be reluctant to take similar action in Laos.
the conservative leader, speaking yesterday at Harvard's Sanders Theatre and the Boston College law school forum, said Latin America would applaud an invasion of Cuba by the United States.
He said the Latin-American countries are fearful of the Communist domination of Cuba and the apparent attitude of weakness on the part of this country.
"We waited for it (the Cuban situation) to take care of itself. We didn't want to be bullies. I would back troops if necessary, but that is a last step," he said.
"We have not yet tried a complete embargo or a blockade," he added.
The Republican Senator indicated he was against sending a U. S. force into Laos.
"I don't know how many American boys I want to risk for people who won't fight to help themselves." he said.
Barley Abroad
PORTLAND, Ore. — (UPI) — The largest single grain shipment in U.S. maritime history recently left Portland for Poland under the U.S. government's program to supply surplus grain to other nations. Cargill, Inc., whose elevators handled the shipment, said that it involved 1,774,000 bushels of barley.
He said he did favor more technical and heavy material support for that country, however.
Priests Recalled
VILLANOVA, Pa. — (UPI) — Eighteen priests were recalled from Cuba today at the request of Fidel Castro's government, the Roman Catholic Augustinian order announced.
The Very Rev. James A. Donnellon, O.S.A., Provinicial of the Augustinian province of St. Thomas of Villanova, said he knows the Cuban people served by these Augustian priests "share our regrets and sadness at this turn of events."
He said the priests, nine of them Americans, "Were forced to leave by an edict of government that the Cuban people themselves do not control." He said he wanted to assure the Cuban populace, "We shall return as soon as Cuba becomes an independent nation. Let us pray that day comes soon."
The order disclosed that one of the American priests, Rev John I. McNiff, 56, Media, Pa., was arrested during the recent rebel invasion. It said he is "believed to have been released and will return with the others."
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