Million Dollar Exhibit Now Featured by Arts Festival
By Richard Koe
Emerald Reporter
The one million dollar art ex
hibit currently on display in the
gallery of the school of architec
ture and allied arts represents an
unusual opportunity to see what
has made contemporary art the
"most discussed and misunder
stood developments in our time,”
according to Andrew Vincent, pro
fessor of art.
Another attraction of the JJni
versity's Festival of Contemporary
Art, the display is a representative
selection of 30 paintings and eight
sculpture pieces obtained through
cooperation of the Portland Art
museum and its director, Thomas
Colt.
Colt made a recent trip to New
York where his personal knowl
edge of private collections and
dealers permitted the selection to
be made available. The exhibit will
continue through March 20.
Among the sculpture exhibition
pieces is “Woman’s Head" by
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and
sculptor Loaned by the Portland
Art museum, the work is an ex
am; i icasso's early attempts
i the cubist painting
ideas which he initiated to the
three dimensional medium.
his bronze piece was done in
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1909 when Picasso was engaged in
what has come to be known as
analytical cubiam—cubism which
“analyzes,” breaks up and takes
apart natural forms.
In the painting series, “The Kog
Lifts" by John Marin is typical of
the subject matter in which Marin
works extensively. A pioneer of
modem art in America, Marin
concentrates principally in water
color with landscape subjects.
KouauJt
"The Head” is one of two works
on display by George Rouault.
Rouault, born in Paris in 1871, is
ranked as an expressionist because
The million dollar art. exhibit
currently being displayed in the
gallery of the architecture school
h> open from 9 am. to ."> p.in.
.Monday through Sunday and
from 0 a.m. to 9p.m. on Tues
day and Thursday.
of the simplification of hm forms
and the intensity of his state
ments. Ranked with Picasso and
Matisse as one of the greats of
contemporary painting, Rouault s
works are considered deeply re
ligious and he himself is spoken
of as a man of great piety.
Max Beckman’s "The Mill’’ has
been proclaimed by critics as an
excellent example of his matin e
work. The heavy black outline is a
Beckman trade mark and the
powerful compositional scheme
rleo is characteristic of his paint
ing. Bookman, a native of Leipzig,
Germany, came to the states in
1917 and taught at Washington
university in St. Louis and Mills
college near Oakland, Calif., be
fore h*s death.
Modern
These are only a few of the
contemporary works r.ow on hie
play in the architecture gallery.
Works by such modem artists as
Cezanne, Kandinsky, Modrian,
Klee, Dali, Gorky, Calder and Ma
rini are also on exhibit. Period
ically, through the extent of the
exhibit, special gallery talks j>< r
-aimng to the exhibition will bu
given.
€> Campus Briefs
9 The last Cosmopolitan Club
meeting of winter ter m will take
place from 8 to 12 p.m. today at
Plymouth house. Refreshments
will be served.
q International Relations club,
which had scheduled a meeting for 4
last night, will hold it on Wednes
day instead. E. B. McNaughtonj
will speak at that time on "The
Economic Problems and Rehabili-I
tation of Japan.” The meeting will,
be held at 7:30 p.m. in the SU,J
with room number to be posted.
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