The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 62

F-4 TEMPO 2 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Sunday, September 1 5. 1 985 THE SHY'S THE LHYJIl To The Exciting Careers Awaiting Our Travel Tourism Grads! AIRLIXES STEAMSHIP IMS Tri-State's Only regionally accredited travel program! Your Training our Excellent Placement Assistance An Unbeatable SOUTHERN OHIO COLLEGE 1055 Laidlaw Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45237 Cincinnati (513) 242-3791 ftp I want more information about: (circle) 1 Microcomputer Spec. TravelTourism Word Processing RadioTV Broadcasting ADDRESS Computer Programming Fashion Merchandising IIP: CITY Business Administration Secretarial I'll PHONE Management Opticianry Medical Assisting Financial Aid Accounting Marketing Real Estate Mgmt. DayNtte Classes tit ACCREDITED BY NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE SCHOOLS 79-02 0655-48 INCA Graduate Placement Assistance PAUL CHIDLAW'S colorful "Paintings and Graphics" is on exhibit at the art museum at Miami University in Oxford. The Cincinnati EnquirerCal Kowal Sophisticated Miami U.

Shows Chidlaw's 'Happy' Art venmgs them to show these secret Art r- lour horse and carriage await to IN THE passage between the small gallery and the large one, the museum has hung some of Chidlaw's choices as his best works, including "Boogie Woogie" and "Unto a Different Dawn," escort you from your motorcar to our hostess who will present a long stemmed red rose to each lovely lady attending. Candlelight Buffets Featuring white glove service, 8-10 p.m. Thursday, September 19, Prime Rib Hors d'oeuvres Friday, September 20, Seafood Extravaganza Saturday, September 21, English Cut New York Steak which is also featured on the poster for the exhibition. The large gallery, with its high ceilings and large windows, is alive with the artist's newest and most line and dance in sophisticated style at Cristy's elegant new lounge. While you're here, enter our Pennies From Heaven Contest! Guess the number of pennies in the jar at Cristy's main bar, and you could win a round trip weekend for two at the Orlando Marriott Hotel in Orlando, Florida plus win the pennies! Prizes awarded September 29.

For Sophisticated Fun, There's No Single Place Like It! BY OWEN FINDSEN The Cincinnati Enquirer If it were possible, Paul Chid-law would buy the Miami University Art Museum. "My paintings Look marvelous in this place," he said. Others certainly would invest in the purchase, judging from the many people at the opening of Chidlaw's Miami exhibit last Sunday who commented that the museum never looked so good as it does with Chidlaw's paintings in it. I- Without a doubt, the art museum at Miami in Oxford is the most beautiful exhibition space in our part of the country, as many Cincinnatians are discovering for the first time when they go to see the Chidlaw show. And museum director-David Berreth is pleased triat the exhibition is introducing so many new people to the museum.

"That was one reason we did the exhibition," Berreth said. "We were aware that Paul has a tremendous following and we hoped they would follow him up here to Oxford." More important, Berreth said, was high time that Chidlaw's paintings were seen in a museum." PAUL CHIDLAW is Cincinnati's master painter. At 85, he is the height of his career. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, and he worked in Paris during the years when that city was producing some of the most Important art of this century. Chidlaw returned to Cincinnati to Join the faculty of the Art Academy, and after his retirement he taught privately in the Rookwood studio that had been the room where the artists of Rookwood brought Chidlaw's art to our attention," Berreth said.

"He invited me down to Paul's studio, and when I saw the volume and the overall quality of his work I took some slides of his paintings back to Oxford and showed them to the staff. We all felt the quality and we could see no reason that no museum in Cincinnati had given him a show." "WE FEEL that part of our responsibility as a museum is to provide proper exposure for artists of the region who have not had proper attention before," Berreth said. "We felt that Paul's way of painting, his working of brush and pigment, is something that is not being emphasized in art schools these days. It's a kind of traditional approach to abstraction, based on a recognizable image. We have artists on the faculty at Miami University who understand this approach and we felt that the students here would benefit from the exhibition." The exhibition is certainly the best presentation of Chidlaw's art ever, and a fine example of how an exhibition should be done.

The small gallery near the entrance of the museum includes paintings dating as far back as 1937. Also in the gallery are a series of monoprints, charming flower studies that show an aspect of Chidlaw's art known only to a few close friends. In the same category are the small paintings, some only the size of a post card, which the artist keeps tucked away but which are among the most thrilling of his paintings. Small though they may be in size, they are frequently very large in scale. It is a mark of Chidlaw's respect for the Miami Museum that he allowed had created their wares.

In 1977 Chidlaw was invited by Edgecliff College, now of Xavier University, to use the carriage house on the campus as a studio, and was appointed artist-in-resi-dence. In 1979 Edgecliff awarded Chidlaw an honorary doctorate. Free from teaching duties, Chidlaw concentrated on painting, and his art became ever more free and colorful, attracting an enthusiastic following of collectors, who love to visit his studio on what was once the Emery estate. The atmosphere of the campus, the carriage house and the studio is that of a small village outside Paris and there, seven days a week, Chidlaw goes to paint. ROGER WILLIAMS, director of the Art Academy, is a regular visitor to the Chidlaw studio.

The newly renovated exhibition hall in the Art Academy is soon to be dedicated as the Chidlaw Gallery. "I spend most of my time around students, who are sure that they know all the answers," Williams said. "Then every so often I get a call -from Paul. He says he's just discovered something new, Just worked out a problem. He asks me if I can come over to the studio to see what he's working on.

"It's so refreshing for me. No one can tell a young artist anything, and yet here is Paul, a master painter at 85, still learning and knowing that there's always more to learn." Williams chartered a bus to take Art Academy students to the Miami museum for the opening. "It was Roger Williams who vivid works. "Paul's work is widely collected," Berreth said, "by people who know nothing about art and by people who know a great deal about art. It's quite a feat these days to be able to appeal to such a wide group.

Many of the artists today do work that is depressing. They bring you down. People who come to the exhibition keep using the phrase 'happy They actually lift you up." Color is everything here. This is a seductive art that is meant to be seen the way a musical composition is meant to be heard. Chidlaw composes, orchestrates, performs in color.

Many people put paint on canvas, but there are few who have any idea of how to orchestrate paint and make It into a visual symphony. Chidlaw is one of the few. Sadly, most artists don't even know that they don't know. "Paul Chidlaw: Paintings and Graphics" continues through Oct. 27 at the Miami University Art Museum, Ohio 27, Oxford, Ohio.

Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For information phone 529-2322. Adjacent to the Cincinnati Marriott 11320 Chester Road 772-1720 Owen Findsen is art critic for The Cincinnati Enquirer. Warhol 'continued from PAGE F-l why is his work so expensive?" pared to look at his art.

(CMTT MEMISffl Come celebrate our 1st Anniversary at our location at Rt. 125 and Ten Mile Road, Amelia! you attend a ball game and sit next to someone who doesn't understand the game? Do you wince every time he mistakes a foul ball for a home run? That's how some people feel when told a 3-year-old could make as good a picture as Warhol. Think about this. People danced in the streets on the day that Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's lifetime hitting record. They were not celebrating one isolated hit but a lifetime of achievement in the public eye.

With an artist such as Andy Warhol, we celebrate exactly the same thing. Warhol was a brand-new cultural phenomenon Just about the time Pete Rose made the big leagues. Some have been following Rose's career in sports all these years, others have been following Warhol's career. He's a part of our time. It's his name, not Rose's, that historians always connect with the '60s.

He has contributed to the way we see and the way we think. Sure, there's lots of hype and promotion surrounding him. So what? Are you ever irritated when For the same reason a famous actor gets paid more than an unknown actor for appearing in a motion picture. If you can't see any more in a Warhol print than a piece of paper with a photograph printed on it, then you shouldn't see more in a Rolls-Royce than a piece of steel with wheels under it. If Pete Rose's career, charisma and reputation don't impress you, you won't want to watch him bat.

If Warhol's career, charisma and reputation don't impress you, you're not pre- "But if it's so easy to do, why is he so famous for it?" Maybe because he was first. How many people can you name have crossed the Atlantic Ocean? Probably only Christoper 'Columbus by boat and Charles Lindbergh by air. The fact that ianyone in the world can do it today doesn't diminish the importance of those who came first. 'I "Oh, I get it. If you do it first, you get to be famous." The caller was a good deal happier now.

"But 1st ANNIVERSARY Vlelcomes CONCERT celebrate our JWI To To 44th Anniversary! Our Famous One Pound Plus T-Bone Porterhouse Steak with sauteed mushrooms Choice of potato Fabulous Super Salad Table Unlimited freshly baked bread with creamery butter Plus a glass of wine and anniversary cake i 1 0 GEORGE Oil A JONES ANDERSON Broun Derby a lV-; 'Fir i Fairfield 7245 Dixie Hwy. Rt. 4 Just North of I-Z75 16 50 Off Celebration continues through Sept. 26th! SPECIAL GUESTS THE FORSTR SISTERS 1 Roy's regular or large Roast Beef Limit four sandwiches with this coupon. Offer valid until September 30, ll)K5 at all participating Ry Rogers locations.

Not good in connection with any other offers: Roy Rogers fat Fcml ycm'R 'Wm Fat I a a ESI B3 E3B '5t fK 50 Off Roy's Bacon Cheeseburger Limit four sandw iches with this coupon. Offer valid until September l)SS at all participating Roy Rogers locations. Not good in connection with any other offers. Friday, October 4, 8 PM at Cincinnati Gardens All Scats Reserved $12.50 Available at Gardens Bex Office and all Ticketrens Charge by Phone 62 L1 1 10 Tickets Now On Sale! Roy Rogers Foil Fcvd IHhi 'R 'tikl To Fat We honor all maior credit cards. Brown Derby.

Inc 185 "i.