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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fogg Museum. Now through April 30, Prints by Milton Avery. The uninitiated claim: "My 4-year-old can do better than that!" I'd like to see one try. An extraordinary exhibit closing on Tuesday. Hurry...
...This exhibit of Avery's work now at the Fogg Museum gathers together prints of all 60 of the images he produced between 1930 and 1955. Avery worked in the opposing techniques of woodcut and drypoint: in drypoint, the artist cuts into copper the line he wants to print, while in a woodcut he digs out what he doesn't. The results in each style are very different, but Avery has command of both techniques. He controls his line to model and shade, indicating the subtleties of mass and movement...
Frank Getlein, in the exhibit's excellent catalogue, contrasts Avery with Matisse: both are removed from Cubism and Surrealism, the dominating forces of early 20th century art, but, unlike Matisse, Avery neglects in his subject matter the process of artistic creation. "His art effaced itself before the importance of the subject." comments Getlein, "And the subject was not just the subject but the subject as containing and manifesting a kind of divine energy...
Color in Art, a major exhibition centered around theory, opens on Wednesday at the Fogg. A scientific exhibit at the Museum of Science, called Color Around Use, will be opening as a companion, and there will be colorful lectures through June...
...discussion of whether it was, say, a black minstrel with one leg or a white-bearded old man with a "seeing-eye tortoise" is pursued in tightly logical but ridiculous dialogue at which Robert Vaughn and Katherine McGrath, as a pair of entertainers just back from an exhibit of Magritte paintings, excel. It is, of course, a theatrical equivalent of Magritte's surrealism, a kind of trompe l'oe il of the stage, where the characters quibble with intense specificity about their own conflicting illusions...