Evening star., 1961-09-17

Nh 1AONAL GALLEhI OF ART, Con.
stitution avenue at Sixth street NV
Daly; 10 am. to pm; Sunday
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1919 Twenty.
first street NV. Daily. Il am
to 8 pm; Monday II am. 10 IL
pm; Sunday to pm.
namely last year, the gallery
offers such associated serv-
ices as studio visits, art ORR
entation classes, child crea-
tivity classes and gallery
hopping, which, apparently,
refers to customers, not ar
fists. New this year is a por-
trait service.
Basically, however, a GAL
lery is its group of artists
and Associated is now show
ing an exhibition of its seven
people. There is a good deal
Of competence, no nonsense,
and several pictures and
sculptures worth anyone's
time.
"H0t" New Talent
Probably the hottest new
talent on view is that of Peter
Blanc. a Washington native
now practicing law in Penn
Sylvania. He has a series of
pictures related to war and
a couple of them succeed
completely in merging idea
and technique. He paints
freely, building forms in
SwirlS of color. War in his
work is more la gloire than
lie mud. Night Fight" places
a mounted man against four
on foot. The Spies" relies
on guys in action. suggested
rather than depicted in the
whorls of gaudy paint.
The hottest familiar talent
is that of Pietro Lazzari, we'll
known hereabouts as both
painter and sculptor. His best
work on view is a combina-
ton, flat pictures made of
manipulated concrete daubed
with color in the midst of
manipulation. That sounds
precious; the work isn't.
Nude on a Ting Horse" is
a monumental juxtaposition
of comparative anatomies.
Pageant" is a gay dance of
forms suggesting Carpaccio
but never precisely delin-
eated.
His strongest work is in
old-fashioned oil paint: I'm
aginary Portrait" is a picture
of social woman as preening
peacock, both ideas subli-
mated in firework abstrac-
ton against night dark.
Forms of Fluid Bronze
Harvey Moore has several
competent colored drawings
and some first rate small
sculpture. Formal Garden"
is an arrangement of fluid
bronze upright forms. HON.
age to Skopas" is a striking
piece: a torso sliced in two
and the front and back
showed sideways apart. Bird"
is poised on a wingtip and
the bones. blood system and
nerves are all suggested In
the rich working of the sur
face. His most ambitious
piece is THE Torso Is a Pup
pet House" openwork with
skin like armor plate and the
empty interior crossed by
Skeins and veins.
Lillian Goldman has per-
fected an abstract way with
sea and sand in several beach
pictures consisting of a few
smears of dark paint against
an overall ground suggest
ing sky and water. Jozef Pie
lage is particularly good in
a formal study. Studio Win
dow" Shade, Venetian blind
and trees without are played
against one another. Appar-
emily from the same window,
he looks down, in another
picture. through budding
tree branches to the colorful
geometry of cars on the
street.
A Toned Down Miro
Marilee Shapiro has sculp-
ture and painting on view
and the best is a painting,
Figures in Space" which re-
calls a touchdown Miro.
Dorothy Goldberg combines
poetry and painting in an
often disconcerting, OCCASION
ally stunning, manner. She
paints the lines of poetry
across assemblages of images
intended to relate somehow
to the verse. Her THE Com
les and Matthew Arnold"
works because the half-hid-
den images show up the hid
den pretensions of the emf
nent Victorian. Her clustered
nun for Hopkins is decent
Illustration. But Strip Teas
er and Robert Herrick" is
hopeless simply because Her.
rick in his lines beginning,
"A Sweet Disorder in the
Dress" is about 20 light years
more sophisticated than any
artist now alive. Comment is
impossible except from a
birthstone Puritan. Mrs.
Goldberg is not a birthstone
Puritan and her poem paint
ings are comment or they are
nothing.