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I "H'Y'V Sunday, Oct. 6, 1963 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Page 18-C Secret Weapon Unveiled At New Art Gallery; Batiks Are Electrifying artists Moving Day At Museum w. err '-tit 1 1 1 FIVE SHOWS clamor for this space. A new gallery, at Lorlng Andrews Ratter-mann, where paintings by Lucille Meyers Introduce It, needs to be the first chronicle. Mrs.

Meyers has, In fact, a claim that takes precedence over simple Inauguration. She has announced a "secret weapon" In her show, which consists of a French Riviera scene, "Beaulle The Riviera," made from crockery broken into pieces and put Into a kind of plaster, giving a collage effect, but also reproducing a shiny, Inviting French village. One can see, through the light, pottery colors, the allure of the 1 most famous playground, and If the French know more about play than everyone else It Is because they understand the artistry that play exacts. It Is no surprise that the French, who are the world's greatest artists, also v. -nip 'ih E.

A. Ruff At Tomar Revives Victorianism i .1 Trt i jet fVvct? provide subject material for all other artists. "Ohio Winter" and "Winter In New Hampshire" depict winter from different perspective and color, though the original scene provided by nature was the same. They are also similar In the raclness of line, the delicacy and grace of performance; and Mrs. Meyers, who Is able to create a natural order more interesting than most of us discover It to be, Is equally able to find an order where disorder Is more likely to be encountered among empty bottles, whose fluids once turned heads.

The paintings of the type "Up River," "Lighted Farm." "Still Life" and many others, have a tightly disciplined technique that alone makes possible the carefree effects. The soft, light colors that glint slyly or quickly, allied to technique, confer strength and resllence on disarming subject matter. ism; that it had nothing to flee, or indeed, to fear. Mr. Ruff's oils are the color of wines old wines, to be sure and they are all in cages.

He Imposes cages upon his lady, (whose eyes are larger than her head) In the form of background or he places her within a cage, like that bird of the 90s. Mr. Ruff's assemblages invoke antique fantasy through an apparently random collection of scraps, odds and ends, that he has polished up and soldered together so that one has the effect of a movie dissolve in which an entire era is telescoped and fragmented, with a certain melancholy that fracture presupposes, or with glee at its mortality. Tomar has opened its gallery cannily indeed, since it is my own view that Mr. Ruff's repertory actually is best placed in any modern system of decor, whether the very latest in design or in an antique evocation.

Schmidt Showing I shall reserve, until next Sunday, comment on the Edna Marie Schmidt showing at the University Club. It is very large In scope and in number of paintings. writers Flair House Resumes AFTER THE heady weeks of Mr. Angelo Ponce de Leon, Flair House has settled down to less spectacular conceits, In the exhibition of Janet Rappoport, whose oils and drawings have solid Intrigues of their own, whatever they may lack of spectacle. Mrs.

Rappoport has several views of the world shared by other artists, but she has an obstinacy of method to render them more or less her own. She has a developed sense of the poignant and the fleeting. Even In her lyrical, light moments, which are not very frequent in the present show, she veils them with a mesh of reluctance. Mrs. Rappoport's figures are transfixed with loneliness, a Kafkaesque world in which terror or resignation are the polar anchors of consciousness.

In concept and execution there is a counterpoint of texture and object, so that at any given point on the canvas one may find subtle surprises as the Interest shifts from the thing to its imaginative re-interpreta-tlon. It is, In a way, like musical texture, where a theme emerges clearly for a statement but Is only one part of a grand, controlling design. Through an unfortunate feeling of guilt about the month of October, I mistakenly said Mrs. Rappoport's show would occur In November. I apologize to the artist, to Flair House, and October.

Art Club Opens ROBERT FABE'S portrait of "Olga" invites you into the group showing that opens the Cincinnati Art Club season. It Is all drawing, mostly In black and white, and, in the case of "Olga," with a tint of pridp and a certain youthful female stateliness coupled with Inner passion. Elmer Ruff's drawing and collage, "I Here The Singing," is an amusing frontier nickelodeon decoration. Ahlers' "Satellite" is a flash of bronze. "View" by Larry Zlnk is a local church steeple with faithful birds flocking around it.

Fred Koch's "Reverie" (sold, dreamily) Is a combination nude and a dream. Vern Rader's "Head" is a convoluted, powerful setting, of collage and drawing the face impassive, chiseled and impervious to pain, the background fluted, whirling, a freak whirlwind of enveloping effects. Wilbur Adam has drawn Don Quixote unhorsed after his heroic combat with the fierce windmill; his nag Rozinante sprawled upside down, and Sancho Panza in fright on his donkey. Reginald Grooms' "Retired" sets a familiar scene old men ruminating on park benches waiting listlessly for the end of time. Phil Foster's "Vistas" plants the viewer outside a mansion with satellite buildings, firmly snipped shrubs and trees, all neat, solemn.

"Sand Castle" by John Gehring Is a cartoon of children in an imaginary tree castle by the sea, detailed with an encyclopedic eye for the precision of the child's demands upon environment, whether In dream or reality. Jack Mueller's "Distance Runner" relaxes temporarily, whereas the people below umbrellas in "Rainy Night" by Carl Zimmerman address themselves to the distance between the drops and shelter, as the lights ripple around them. "The Bent Twig" by Rit-tershofer suggests that the tree may not grow at all. Winston Price's "The First Senior Citizen" is a birthday party for Methuselah, whose age was not proof against the sardonic ritual of sentimental ceremony. George Caplto's "Study of A Girl" is prayerful, winning.

Ray Becker recreates "County Fair" down to the last stall and the last camera-stricken vulgarity. "Court House Georgetown" by Franklin suggests that Justice is serene there; and the old gaffer in charcoal by Colvin -Pyle is similarly resigned. Robert Hayes' "The Amate Tree, Mexico," looks like Spanish Moss in Florida. Jerome Costello has a boat "In For Repairs" (in dry dock). Horace Daughters' "Deserted" is a decrepit building.

Joseph Ebertz has drawn a gnarled tree in "Invictus." Mr. M. R. Rhoades has also been captured by boats, whereas Phil THE EXOTIC decorating house out on Observatory Road, Tomar, not to be outdone In the matter of an art gallery, has opened Its second floor to that purpose, with an exhibition by Mr. E.

A. Ruff whose purpose It Is to restore Victorianism and having restored it to have some fun with It. Mr. Ruff imparts a meticulous antique aura to miniature drawings and water-colors. The somewhat larger oils, and the assemblages constructed from the in-sides of old clocks, old radios, motors, do not so much reconstruct an older period as they suggest the antique view that future times (if such there be) may take of us.

Thus Ruff may, in this respect, be ahead of his time. Mr. Ruff has an idee fixe, like Berlioz, and it is identical with that of Berlioz, even though Berlioz did not originate it a woman. Mr. Ruff is not tumultuous, however.

He sees this lady, with her heart-shaped face, on a drape of velvet, with ruffles, spangles, with a now simpering face, now again, suffused, with self-pity, and sometimes he does not conceal a certain sympathy for her. But In general, he has the same view of Miss Idee Fixe as Max Beerbohm had of the entire English drama as it was fleeing Victorian At 1' lair House This painting by Janet Rappoport is one of a series on display at Flair House now. New Shows Cincinnati Art Museum Is now showing fall acquisitions, Monday-Saturday, 10 a. p. Sundays, 2-5 p.

m. No charge. Holiday House, 434B Springfield Pike, Wyoming, has an exhibition of enamel work by Miss Helen Worrall, art teacher at Reading Public School. Miss Worrall's work has been exhibited throughout the U. S.

and has been sold in New York by Georg Jensen. One week. Good Pesiffii, 4369 Reading Road, has an exhibition of Mexican handicrafts, jewelry, ceramics, papiermache, baskets, melalwork and paintings through October. Monday, 10 a. p.

Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a. p. m. Edna Marie Schmidt, University Club exhibition, not open to the public but if you know a member you can see the show. The Jewish Center, 1580 Summit Road, opens its fall season with works of Don Dennis, today through October 27.

Sunday-Thursday, 10 a. p. Friday, 10 a. p. m.

The Contemporary Art Center exhibition of American "Rya" rugs and hangings will be open to the public at the Taft Museum, same hours as Art Museum, October 8-November 3. The Liturgical Art Festival, Mt. St. Joseph College, Delhi, begins Monday Oct. 7, with all interested persons welcome.

Robert Rambusch, New York, artist and consultant, will speak on "Principles of Liturgical Art" tomorrow evening. Want Mention? Notice of art shows must be written in order to be used on this page, and must be received at least by Wednesday preceding the Sunday of publication. ADVERTISEMENT Authors! Ltiding book publiihor letki minuicrlpti of all typtit fiction, non-fiction, poolry. cnouriy no reilimu n.w uthon welcomed Send for froa booklet NR-65 Vantogo Preii, 120 W. 31 Now York I.

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T. Semple was an archeologist and Head of the U. C. Classics Department. His wife was Louise Taft Semple.) There are pieces of pottery from the 14th century B.

there are fragments showing Helen of Troy, Aphrodite and (maybe) Aeneas in a scene showing Helen being presented to Paris (her subsequent lover). A special collection of Japanese art will be shown for the first time. The Indian gallery has been benefited by the Semple collection, Including the Jain Shrine from the 17th century. A more precise account of some of the large, valuable collections now on display will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead. Jewish Center Fifty paintings, watercol-ors, collages and ink drawings by Don Dennis, will open the fall season of the Jewish Community Center 1580 Summit Road.

Mr. Dennis, who describes himself as a "representational artist," attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and has taught classes in College Hill. has a faded, circular "Cabala." A small boy laughing by Harland Johnson; a boozing lady guitar player with a clamoring child in counterpoint by Kendrick Bell; a horse by William O'Neill; a "Lady of 88 Years" by Charles W. Schlapp; "Third Street" Maysville by Harry Salzer; "Beggar Boy" by Emil J. Quayle and "Active Volcano" by Lee Greenwell complete the show.

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