Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 90

Hi i 5F ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Sunday, May 22, 1955 TJPCOMING art events: Creative arts classes of the YWCA will display thdr work from 3 to 5 today in the patio of the Clinton Avenue North building. The public is invited to see workshops in operation during the afternoon. Vendome Galleries, 140 East Ave. will show paintings of Ralph Avery, Stanley J. Gordon, Milton W.

Holm and Carl Peters from 10 to 5:30 daily, including Sundays from today through June 15. Rochester Art Club will hold its annual meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Woodside and will see Clifford Ulp's color slides of paintable subjects around Rochester. Edna Weeks Smith wil demonstrate oil painting for members at Women's University FOR SALE SUMMER HOME AND GUEST HOUSE One of the most lovely spots on Lake Ontario. Cement sea wall, over 500-ft.

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WW SB? 1 Four Art Events This Week KMC 1 nil I Ik P7VV 1 to PL Bl I STREET SCENE-While building Mas razed In Third Ward, John W. Atterbury found subject for "Plymouth Avenue Abstract," honorable mention winner in water color section of the 1955 Finger Lakes Exhibition. 1 Lakes show Is Largi Eyeful "Tony" at Charlotte iRPlTPh Ptl Flfl -j-X Appliances says -1 fl i'llLpSCMKO)) I i id id 4L hcrJ hell 4j 4iJ MfPT lrVI(fi)f 1 I Mm 1 i Pi Li i milCO 725 By JEAN WALRATH VISIT0RS to the Fincr Lakes Exhibition of '55 will see the biggest show ever i held of the work of Kochester area painters, sculptors and artist-craftsmen five galler-. ies crammed with outpourings of creative expression. They also will see more watercolors than have been evident 'in several years and more of them in the traditional style of transparent water-colors.

The exhibit is at the Memorial Art Gallery. The visitors also will view an exceptional number of new-; comers among the exhibitors many names that can be, traced to the postwar immigration of talented Europeans as well as to the increasing horde of erstwhile Sunday painters who have turned to serious work, and to the ever widening group of young painters who are growing up. Many will regard the decora- tive arts section as the finest part of" the show, particularly the pottery, tile enamel and textile entries. There also are some newcomers among the furniture makers and among the silversmiths. The show jury was reported- ly impressed with the decora-i' tive arts but also with the vast and impressive collection of oils.

Indeed it is vast and a varied to a degree that is be- wildering. The wondrous work- ings of a jury are reflected In a range extending from the most carefully detailed privi- tives and traditional paintings to one huge abstract that com- municates nothing except a mastery of slapdash, with what 1 looks suspiciously like a i paucity of paint and color sense. Nevertheless, in between is a plethora of arresting canvases in abstract, expressionists, realistic and primitive approaches. The trend away from abstraction is noticeable In the jury's selection. We understand that there are only half as many pure abstractions this year as last year.

Converse-' however, the number of purely realistic entries also has shrunk. It appears that mora individualism has come into the show, but that is merely an impression to be comfirmed or disrupted, on closer and far more leisurely examination. Svetozar Radacowic's prize-winning oil, "Copenhagen Port," which captured two awards, is a mist of blues, but nevertheless a composition of decidedly recognizable objects. It's a painting that reflects what seems to be the present-day attitude of the show jury a preoccupation with unusual textures and techniques with a leaning to the expres-sionistic rather than abstract handling of the subject. Space permits only a word about some of the prizewinners Frans Wildenhain's richly pleasant tilemosaics, Richard Wakamoto's attractive, substantial, cleanly designed oak chair; Arlene Murdoch's blue enamel-on-copper bowl decoration of black figure outlines; Edwin Hamilton's fine tilemosaic, "The Angel Chalcos Engraving," Winifred Lansing's tender sculpture of a child's head, "Tear," and Laurence Schmeckbier's powerful woodcarving, "Cumaesan Sybil," and John E.

Stoller's color-on-black watercolors and Ronnie Solbert's oil, "The Meting," which is not only a meeting of two figures but PRIZEWINNER "Young Girl" by Horace Clark took award for oils at Finger Lakes. ing pieces are not among the prizewinners. HERE'S A NEW and noteworthy look of the future to this year's show of student work at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Bevier Building. The exhibition hall has been re-arranged to show development of the students' work along parallel lines of commercial design and fine art, from the first year through the bachelor of science degree course, in the fourth year. The work of the eight degree students, arranged in a separate gallery, is an impressive summing-up of the art and skills that go into the education of a young, man or woman who is fitted for a career in designing the products Americans will buy and use for practical purposes or visual enjoyment.

Each has a thesis project. For one it is the design of new packaging; for another the design and building of a drafting table; for a third, the illustration of a children's book; for another, the design of a stage set, and another an advertising promotional campaign. The collection of articles that make up the exhibit panel for each student, contains not only materials relating to his specialty, but also to his other attainments, oil painting, poster design, craftsmanship, etc. In the undergraduate section are displayed commercial art designs and drawings and paintings and ceramic sculpture. What the students at RIT are doing in the field of art is exciting for its excellence and its prophesy.

It should be particularly interesting- to industralists of tha Rochester area. It should be noted, also, that the art students of RIT are represented in the current Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery. "Art in Science," a display of the original paintings which were reproduced' for a series of magazine covers and later for portfolios for collectors, will be shown the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences from now through the month of June. Among the artists an! illustrators represented are Walter Murch, Stanley MelLzoff, John Langley Howard, Rudolph Freund, Antonio Frasconi, Bernarda Bry-son and David Stone Martin. Following the Rochester Museum showing, the paintings will be displayed at the Corning Glass Center.

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I Playwrights Pick Pair for Musical NEW Y)RK, May 14 W-The Playwrights' Company has commissioned Jerome Moross, composer, and Edward Eager, librettist and lyricist, to pre-pare an original musical comedy for production in 1956. "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" is the title of the project, which will have a Civil War background. Moross composed the music for last season's prire musical, "The Golden Apple." Eager, incidentally, has fashiored a new book and lyrics for the production of "The Merry Widow" which will opn the season for St. John Terrell's musical tnt in Lambertville, N.J., in 4. 95 NOW as Me II LV7 Phi'c.

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