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Different attitudes toward feline character dominate the local gallery scene this week. At the Paul Schuster Gallery, Claire Johnson Wiest shows her Blue Cats in playful moods. A fine watercolor technique removes many of her studies from the category of calendar art. The light touch and subtle color effects remind us of the animal's Eastern derivations. For those patrons of the Poets Theater doing between-act viewing this exhibit will be a mild diversion but aelurophiles may find it more exciting...
...long-pent-up subconscious yearning to do fanciful things, and once started, it seemed to sweep onward like a flooded stream; there was no stopping it." An example of Burchfield's new-found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene shows Little Beaver Creek, Burchfield's boyhood swimming hole, capturing with almost Van Gogh-like intensity his own feeling of "the ineffable peace of a quiet summer day in those far-off times. All things seem to look at and yearn toward...
With age the animal grew fat, and kicked. "Portrait painting," he would burst out, "is a pimp's profession." He amused himself increasingly with watercolor landscapes, to which he gave a wet, soft and unconvincing glisten. .During World War I, Sargent sketched and painted at the front-an act of courage and enterprise which nevertheless achieved little. He had visited the U.S. on occasion, and never relinquished his U.S. citizenship. Toward the end he accepted a corn-mission to design murals for the rotunda and entrance hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which he hoped would...
...shopping expedition in Windsor, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of Mummy herself, caparisoned in the full-dress uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, sitting sidesaddle on a chestnut horse named Winston. Among the little Princess' selections: a watercolor showing her namesake, Queen Anne, attending the Ascot Races some 250 years...
...Hara has a very defined, personalized style. He breaks his surfaces up into translucent shafts of color, using the new plastic tempra and ordinary watercolor to create a feeling of volume within the colors. The birds, clowns, and moody figures that fill his pictures are heavily outlined, sometimes in black, indicating an obvious debt to Roualt--and to stained glass. (See cut). A clever use of color tonalities, like the monochromatic combinations in "Persuasion" adds to the force of the artist's expression...