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...NETHERLANDS AT WAR: 1940-1 945 by Walter B. Maass. 264 pages. Abe-lard-Schuman...
Other exhibitors experiment with media to develop personal styles. Nikki Schuman uses water colors on unsized muslin to get blurred edges and indefinite forms. In a painting called "Seagulls," blues and greens and brown run over one another to create watery planes around and through two graceful human figures. In "Gross and Untitled," the blobby quality of paint seeping into fiber is used to depict two horrendously obese females in green bikinis...
While Miss Schuman tries for an illusion of depth, Jamie Smith actually builds out the canvas with pounds of acrylic paint. Smith's "Orpheus" is a light-flooded canvas reminiscent of Impressionism. Roughly textured yellow-greens make up a landscape with field and trees. David Brown uses elaborate surface treatment to an entirely different end. His "Life: Elaine" is a mannered portrait of a lady with classically abstracted features and gilt collar and background. It could be a painting of the sixteenth century. But there is a stylistically twentieth century figure off to one side, and a plastic coating makes...
...engaging personality and warm humor. During World War II, he was the radio voice of Free France in London and De Gaulle's chief public relations man. He served as a Deputy Foreign Minister from 1951 to 1954, and was a disciple of postwar Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, one of the pioneers of European economic integration. Maurice Schumann broke with De Gaulle in 1962, after the general rejected European political unity, but returned to the Gaullist fold three years later. As Foreign Minister, he is expected not to initiate any drastic changes in France's basic policy...
Poher was largely unknown to Frenchmen before the referendum battles, in spite of a 25-year public career. The son of a successful civil engineer, he won degrees in engineering, law and political science, became a protégé of Robert Schuman and served at sub-Cabinet level in several Fourth Republic governments before entering the Senate. Schuman converted him into a European unionist. Poher worked with the European Coal and Steel Community, later became a member of the European Parliament at Strasbourg. Last October he was elected Senate President, succeeding its longtime leader Gaston Monnerville, who had resigned...