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THIS WEEK
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961 E 18th Ave
CHRISTOPHER
PARKENING
Classical Guitar
'A Tribute to Segovia'
Mon., Oct. 9 8 p.m.
Silva Hall, Hult Center
$16. $14 Reserved Seats
$10. $8 Students / Seniors
”40 FAULTLESS
FINGERS”
Piano Quartet from Eugene
High School Class ol 1940
Tues.Oct. 10 8 pm.
S3 General Admission
$1 Students and Seniors
BENNETREiMER
^Guest Artist Seminar
A dialogue with one of
America's leading music
educators on music and
arts curriculum
Thurs., Oct. 12 8:30 p m
FREE Admission
PHILIP GLASS
Guest Artist Lecture
1 Pianist and avant-garde
composer Philip Glass
discusses his works
Fri., Oct. 13 3:30 p m
FREE Admission
For more information, call
686-3761 (Music School)
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University Museum to show artwork
by contemporary painter Alice Neel
H\ Mart 1.1 I
I diversity News Bureau
An exhibition <>| paintings by
Alii i* \cel .1 renow m il i on
11-injn ir.i r\ Amerh an artist, will
be nn display (>i t ' through
I It-i 1 ll .it I lie I'nivrrsilx Muse
um ut Art 1 I td Inlmscin I ..ini'
Ihe i xhibitiiin li-.itiirrs I'i
|i.iintinvts limn tin- i nllci turn ul
lmi.ith.in .mil Monika lir.nul ol
I ugene I lie i <u i vasses tin hull'
pnrlr.iitx, landsi .ipes .mil still
lile representing (nur (in .nil's
iif Ni'cl's long i .lu l l
IU tlie time nf Inn de.ilh in
PIH-1 Neel \\ .is ret iigllized a
line of \merii .i s luremnst i nil
temporary pnrlr.nl p.iinlers m
p. miters ill people .is she
pielei Ted In say In her last
years she p.mileil many well
known people m the .ul world
nn hiding Andy Warhol.
M.irisol .uni Iveil (.inniiis
f ur me penple .ire the fust
pielmse \eel said "M\ work
Is ,l mnimmenl In I lli'lll
An Hiding to l.arrv l ung
n glstl .11 lm till' I’llivel sitX Mil
sell 111 ul Alt \eel hoped In ex
press the spirit of hei times In
probing the psvt hology ul the
individual In reveal the unique
essem e ul ea( h ul hei sitters
\eel habitually refused to Work
on ( ommlssion so that she
( mild let.nil the freedom In
paint the tiutil as she saw it
Throughout the tilt veals ul
hei i aieei ill New N in k ( 11\
\eel •• most lli'(|Ui'llt sublet Is
h-abetta tin1 earliest work
in tin- exhibition. u.is painted
li\ Neel III PIJO sunn iifli-r she
11'i overed from .1 ncri mis
bieakdow n I In- i h 1 Id 111 the
painting is \i-i I s sim mill
daughter wliu hml 111M-11 si-|i
.ir.itnl (rum her ni<>1 ln-r .mil t.ik
i'll tu Havana In Neel's ( nil, 111
liiisb.mil .1 |Mintrr sin- had met
m ,iit si I11111I llrr lust daughter
had died nf diphtheria tun
\ ears ear I let
I’,Milled limn memorv
Is.ilielta is portr.ned as .1 tor
lorn dull I ike i n ature < Inti It
me a slutted animal I lie paint
I m; * V ml ml iy.es Nee Is uWll I eel
ing ut depression and luneli
ness Neel latei said ut the
painting “That's emotion in
its purest lurm
In PIT. Neel joined the easel
prii|eit ut tile Works Progress
Administration (IVPA|. whir li
prin iiled a small hut stearU III
1 nine dining the billow mg
eight years During this period
Neel painted brooding 1 11 v
si apes, un hiding Neu \oli
I enemi-nl Hai kyard. one ol
several unpeopled urban views
that bear resemhiaiu e to similar
si enes In I du aid I topper
Neel nun ed to Spanish I lar
fern m PUB with her neu
liner Jose Santiago, a Puerto
Kiiun uighli lull singer who
was the lather ol Isi• haul her
first sou Neel remained with
Santiago for only a feu years
hut lived in Harlem for a total
ol 2 > years painting the Puerto
( midt'W phulit
\rh\l \liir \rrl\ p.untmt; rntitlril |i>nnv Hrand onr rx.implr
<il hvr hrss stirious pict rs
Neel hoped to express the spirit of her
times by probing the psyc hology of the in
dividual to reveal the unique essence of
each of her sitters.
wore i.onilv members. neigh
Inns ,ind friends \\ lien sin
unsn l p.nnling people, she ol
ten rei orded view s from her
window or oh|e< Is in hci np.irt
inenl
Kit .ms ami Dominii .ms uj her
nrli^lilmi lionti as v\ i• 11 as Imr
liirmls aiming I lit- pnlitu ai lati
a ais ami intHIrt tuais
\t’i■ I hail a sluing nnpalln
ini llit- limit'll lass til Ami'iii an
OOUBU TEE
PRESENTS
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF MAGIC
JOAN BAEZ
OCT. 22
HULT CENTER
SILVA HALL
RESERVED SEATS St 5 00 & $16 50
:ibie at ail Mult Center Outlets or call 687 5000 to c fwge by phone
I up Into
I hr Cold
M11 Irtv .111(1 took .m ,|( live Kill
111 leftist mi ii emeiils of the
1 *i ills Neel s compassion for
the poor always was expressed
through the portrayal of the
unique individual
'Puerto Ku an Madonna
painted in 1'» ill depir Is the
u de and train ol the suffering
man in I It I larlem one ot
Neel's earh masterpiei es Al
though the subject is tradition
al. it has none ol the serenity ol
the K.tphael Madonna or the
sentiment ol a Mar\ Cassatt
mother and elnld
Puerto Ku an tori painted
in Pi-Pi l\ pities Neel 's dark
portraits of the 10411s Neel's ti
uancial condition was at its
worst during the period alter
the termination ol the U PA
program and it would lie years
hetnre she rei Hived any < om
men i.d sin i ess A diffii lilt re
lationship with Sam Mrodv. a
photographer and filmmaker
and lather ol her son. I lartley
provided little i omtort or relief
from the demands ol two small
i hildren
Neel's fortunes improved in
the earh 1‘Mitls with the rei epit
ot the plt.i; Longview luuiula
lion Pun liase Award and with
mi reased requests to exhibit
hei work Pile popularity ol
photo realism and Pop Art i on
tributed to a new interest in
realism, although Neel disliked
both ot these styles because
they were not concerned yvith
human emotion
She had lightened her palette
even helore this period, marked
also by her move to a more spa
cious and brighter apartment
on the I pper West Side "Carol
brand yvith ( at. one ol Neel's
lew commissioned portraits, is
lightei m ( oloi .mil mood ll ,in
earliei w <irk■> 1',Hilled with
Wei's i harm trristii spniitanei
tv it her,dds ,i less troubled pe
nod in her Hie and earner
Wei’s works of the 1‘ltitls
tend to he brighter and lightei
She s.nd that I hanksgiv
was her answer to I’op Art re
terring to the ( an of Ajax on the
sitlehoard The llin kl\ painted
( upon defrosting in the sink
suggests in an amusing wax the
les,, sentimental side of a fami
Iv dinnei \eel often emplover)
this type ot skewed persper live
as an expressive dev it e
"lennv (fraud " is less expres
sionistit and more decorative
with airv juxtapositions ol
pati lies ol color with hare areas
ol i am as It is a portrait ol a
healthy pink i hooked i hlld
Ilia! contrasts markedly with
the still and sormwful
’' Isabella ' reflet ting the
change in Wei's own psycho
logit al state
Wei grew up in a small stilt
urb of Philadelphia and knew
since childhood that she want
ed to he an artist I ram 102 1 to
P12a. she attemied the I’llila
delpllia St hool ol I lesign foi
Women, now Moore (College of
Art, from which she received
an honorary doctoral degree in
1071
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