Spencer show portrays social, political conflicts
By Bryce J. Tacha
Kanshan staff writer
Beyond closed doors at the Spermium Museum of Art, portraits of singer frustration and fear hang on the gallery walls.
When the doors open Sunday,
the 14-weeks "Committee to Open Print," col
lection will illustrate the fine line
the separates art, politics and society
said Pal Falker. Sponsor curatoria
gallery walls When the
dissident in society
file.
Organized by theme, the works
focus on categories such as war
race, sex and class struggle. Walter
said.
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the exhibition, which will be on display through May 29, was organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was voted one of the best exhibitions in 1979 by the American Art Critics Association like this has been before, "Father said," the response is going to go on how people react to the intention of the rinks.
One print shows a girl of Veteran-
ese woman and a child of Young girl on a country road. Another shows the U.S. Capitol road. Another shows Shaun steaked on the grass. The berries were excited by hot sunlight.
but not exploitative.
"The artists all feel their art has a specific purpose," she said. "The intention of the artist is to change things, not to give a blanket statement about the world is more." Andrew Stevens, a curator at the Ellipson Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the exhibition was increasingly moving.
- we collection: very powerful.
- it is emotional draining. Everyone
  is sensitively drained. Everyone
  must not agree with you. People
  may not agree with every
  thing they see but that the purpose
  of the exhibit, to show how there is
A lot of the artists are interested with providing an action, he said. "They want to convince people to do something. It isn't exactly professional, but it is certainly opinionated."
"The Human Relations Portfolio" portrays the three young civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964. The silkscreen print is part of the "Committe to Print" exhibition, which will open Sunday.
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Woodcut
prints tell narratives
By Bryce J. Tache
Kansas staff writer
Thursday, March 22, 1990/University Daily Nansan
Local festival features
Countries and themes affect sea are the countries and themes found in Richard Berman's woodcut prints, which will be on display at the Spencer Museum of Art from Sunday to May 20.
The exhibition of 40 prints was organized by Andrew Steven, curator of the Elythean Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Berman really tends to work with printmaking. "Stevens said, 'This print imply a narrative that is related to kinds of fiction, such as detective fiction or nautical fiction.' Stevens said Berman's art was more subject than most. "What really has struck me while doing research for the exhibit is that so many people approach the pieces as things that remind them of other things." he said. "I think Berman wants to catch you in the act of making a story, of fitting the art to your own memories."
"The very style makes you aware that this is friction. You can't help but get sucked into lying to discover what the facts are. The thing is you finally face the fact that it's only fiction."
Stevens compared Baskman's ideas to those found in comic books and television
Jewish music, exhibits
"Man Overboard" depicts Richard Bosman's disaster theme.
ar. Spencer curatorial
stern, agreed She said that Bess
man's work had indeed伤视 his
work but that it was of comic book
morality.
"Somehow there this sense of
xaggerated violence or intense em-
perial experience in the prints," she said. "He is often compared with thir
By Bryce J. Tachi
mediality
there's here, in some sense,
"Somehow there is this sense of mediality."
Bryan said that was a universal appeal to Bosman's prints.
"It seems that he is very passionate
interest that is universal."
Twenty local artists will contribute their talents at an art show and participate in community center, gv Highland Drive.
The festival, readings will feature music, poetry readings and exhibits of art ceramics and wood carvings created by KC and local artists. The festival will be held at 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 10.
President or architecture, organized the event. I think it will be a cultural event for the Jews. Art is a cultural people who than anything else. In wha- many people think in terms of attempting to divide, art unifies. "Culturally," Jews are a very
"The writing of eunice vume is a traditional Jewish custom," he said. "A person writes his philosophy of life, what he has learned and what thoughts and moral lessons he wishes to pass from one generation to the next." Priemman said he would selections by Jewish people living during the Jewish civil war and by Jews in the United States and Israel in the Israeli Community. Priemman will say Hebrew always have theological part. "Art also presents a cultural part of art that presents a broad perspective of Jewish life." Aimie Leachz, associate professor of English, will conduct a poetry reading.
diverse themes. There are some themes such as the Holocaust theme that, with the Jewish artist can tackle with greater freedom. Paul Freidman, professor of communication studies, will read介
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