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People who regard the University as a bastion of visual philistmism may be pleased to learn that Barbara Swan, for the past two years an Associate Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, has opened a one woman show at Boston's leading gallery...
...Miss Swan's drawings, paintings and lithographs can hardly be called cheerful. Many of her oils have a haunted, melancholy quality that she manages to combine with harsh coloring and still retain a certain grace and softness...
Indeed the family is a second of Mirski's favorite themes. Young children and protective fathers appear repeatedly. In one such scene, "Father and Children," a father holds one child on his shoulder and hugs a second to his chest. The vertically flowing streaks that Miss Swan uses so frequently run behind the figures in the form of thin, wavering lines...
...family scenes and her haunted faces appear to be direct opposites. The former produce a strong impression of personal security, while the latter represent people who seem alone and at odds with the world. Miss Swan herself might disagree with this. The musical scenes, which contain perhaps her most haunted faces, are purportedly attempts to "show the interaction of musician and listener." If this is true, the music must at least be in a minor...
...Nice Part. Some of the world premieres played during the week were clearly also swan songs-the one and only performance of some trail blazer's lapse into buffoonery. But the au courant audience had come to hear a conclave of the bizarre as well as the beautiful, and like buyers at a fall fashion showing in Paris, they cherished the new and outlandish for its own sake...