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Book Reveals Picosso.s Humanity
And Proves Him a Great Artist

PICASSO'S PICASSOS. Text
and photographs by David
Douglas Duncan. (Har-
per's; s30-$24.95 until
December 3D.
Age cannot wither nor Gus
tom stale the infinite variety
of Pablo Picasso. Painter,
sculptor, printm a k er,
draughtsman supreme, he
more than any man mas
shaped the art of our CEN
tury and has therefore taught
all Of us alive In this cen
tury how to look and what to
see. He is 80 this year and
shows no sign at all of slack
ening in the furious artistic
energy that has bubbled up
steadily for so years to the
astonished delight of the
world. ...s
This new book by the Pho
tographer David Douglas
Duncan is the result Of a long
stay at Picasso's Villa La
California and is at once a
fitting tribute to the painter
and a source of Joy for the
rest of us. AS the title i'm
plies, the heart of the book is
over 100 beautifully done
color plates of the paintings
kept by the painter. In addi-
ton, there is a black and
white catalogue of the more
than 500 such paintings at
the villa. and a handful Of
remarkable color photos of
the old man himself. There
is also a text by Duncan and
like the one he wrote for his
book of the Kremlin's treas
ures, its embarraSsments can
be forgiven for the sake Of
the gorgeous pictures.
The paintings are far from
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PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meeting announcements
must be In the hands OF the
PTA Calendar editor BY
Wednesday of each meek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address
of meetings, as ipeH as meet
ing time and full name and
location OF organization.
DR.. Leonard M. Elstad, presi.
dent of Gallaudet College, will
speak on "The Open Door tt
Understanding" Wednesday al
the $3.50 pm. meeting of the
Gordon Junior High Schoo
Parent-Teacher Association
The meeting will be held in the
school auditorium, Thirty-fiftf
and T streets NV.
Other PTA groups scheduled
to meet this week, at 8 pm. un.
less otherwise noted, are:
THURSDAY
Bowen-Delaware ave. and NJ st. s.w
FRIDAY
seaton-I st. between I'd and Sd
SITS. NV.
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modern art has begun. The
years between 1900 and 1907,
however. are completely miss
ing, which means that the
favorite Picasso of many Is
totally absent, the man of
the Blue and Rose pictures
just before Cubism.
The last five years of the
sos are most heavily repre-
sented. Duncan, quite prop
erly. links up the agonized
distortions and the dreamy
reveries both with the daily
news from the war in Spain.
A little sequence in the life
of the Minotaur-the man
beast - is followed from
wounds to healing and con-
tent, perhaps a parallel to
Picasso's feelings for Spain
and the transformation of
that personal agony into art.
The artists personal life is
inextricably bound up in the
beautifully tender portraits
of Marie Therese, of Dora
Maar and of Jacqueline
Roche, the present Nine. Pi-
casso. Animals, bits of still
life, interiors. all are trans
formed in the binding flash
of the painters vision and
in the creative act of max
ing something new on the
canvas. An instructive under
standing of childhood and a
laughing sympathy with its
awkwardness come through
in the pictures of Picasso's
daughter Paloma.
In short, Picasso's concerns
for the most part are those
of mankind: Distress over in
ternational catastrophe, love
for the family. delight in the
sudden revelation of beauty
in familiar scenes. The diff
ference is only that besides
being a warm and living per-
son, Picasso is also a great
artist. This handsome book
reveals the depth of both.
F. G.
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vibrate together as you look.
The paintings at the Pan
American could also be COM
pared to those of the Italian
contemporary, Giuseppe Ca
pogrossi, who covers his sur
faces with pronged shapes
that remind observers vari-
ouSly of forks or fingers and
that cluster into polygons
and other arrangements.
The Screen"
But actually the visual
reality most closely suggest
ed by Mr.. Polesello's work
is not in art at all, but In
the newspaper. If you look
sharply at any photo In to-
days Star. you will notice that
it is made up not of Mr..
Khrushchev promising the
moon, nor of lovely ladies
chatting at an embassy, de-
spite its superficial resem-
blance to such people. The
photo is made up of thou
sands of tiny dots, which
can, by coming close to-
gether, produce what looks
like a black surface, or, by
being relatively far apart,
produce what looks like
white. Since a photograph
itself is a record of light
and shadow, this screen Of
black dots serves very well
to reproduce q photograph.
Essentially, Mr.. Pole
sello's paintings are such
screens, done In color and
without any image to come
through the dots. Neverthe-
less. vague forms do seem to
come through at times and
often the dots are arranged
in hexagonS which simmer
through the pattern with the
eye-holding attraction of
hexagonal tile laid In such a
way that you don't know If
you are looking into a hollow
or at a free standing figure.
Van Gogh's Ear
In the memory Of this OBJ
server, only one other painter
in recent years has employed
this fundamentally pointillist
technique to similar ends.
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evenly distributed over the
entire career. There are a few
from 1895 to 1900, in which
Picasso paid student homage
to an art tradition he was to
supplant. Then, abruptly,
there is a self-portrait of 1907
suggestive of nothing in pre-
vious art later than ROM
anesque frescoes and the
most exciting production in
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EDUCATION FORUM
By BENJAMIN FINE

have had some experience. AZ
ter that-well, there are several
places where you can apply.
The United States Office Of
Education conducts an ex-
change program for teachers.
The military services need
teachers abroad. And, incident
ally, our own Nation could use
many more teachers =
Question: / am a member
of an advisory council on
curriculum to the school board
in my city. We are undertak-
ing the study of acceleration
for bright students. Do you be-
lieve in skipping? Should q
talented boy or girl be per-
mitted to finish his IL years
of school in 10 years? Are we
giving our gifted enough at
tention? Some say that it isn't
democratic. What do you
think? -
Answer: You have flooded
me with a host Of questions,
all good. First, I do not be-
lieve in skipping, but I believe
in letting children advance at
their own speed. Each school
system, in my opinion, should
have a three track program
for gifted, average, and slow
children. Why shouldn't q
bright child go at his own
pace? Why should he be kept
back by the average or slow2
This is not skipping, it Is
merely permitting the talented
to work up to their capacity.
Let's break the lock-step of
education! A gifted youngster
might well finish his IL years
of elementary and high school
work in 10 years. And he would
be better for it. Another point:
I do not believe that we are
giving our gifted children
enough attention. They are the
forgotten generation. It's most
democratic to give them special
education.
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This was Salvador Dali. who.
perhaps five years ago, ex-
hibited an enormous canvas
covered uniformly with sil-
very disks, The disks shim-
mered and behind them was
glimpsed Raphael's Sistine
Madonna. Dali being Dali,
this was not enough: the
drape of the Madonna's veil
also formed Q gigantic hui
man ear. which, In the pro-
gram notes. was alleged to be
the ear cut off in Aries by
Vincent Van Gogh.
Mr.. Polesello operates
without reference to Rapha-
el, Van Gogh or Dali, but
in his control Of his dots
he exhibits something Of the
same virtuosity. The expert
ly matched colors - some
times orange shading into
magenta, both against blue,
and in one dazzling painting
a golden ochre against black
and white - can meSmerize
the eye as surely as water
running in a brook or the
wind turning leaves in a tree.
Decoration
But isn't this all essentially
decoration? It is indeed and
1t is to be hoped that Mr.,
Polesello goes on TO some Of
the other things art can do.
Even If he never does, he has
already created delight for
the eye by means Of intricate
planning and meticulous
craftsmanship.
Pole, Not POlesellO
AS long as we're talking
about the Pan American Un-
ion, it is high time some one
over there got hold Of a long
pole and adjusted the swivel
mounted ceiling lights. The
Polesello show is the fifth
in q row in which several
paintings hang in shadow
while brilliant circles illumi-
nate the walls above them.
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Question: Ny son is in his
senior year in high school. He
is a fair student but we feel
If he really buckled down he'd
do well. We insisted that he
take the college course, al
though he said he wants to
go into business. Yesterday he
informed us that he's going
to drop out, that he Is wasting
his time with chemistry, trigo-
nometry, Spanish and mon
sense like that" He doesn't en-
joy these subjects. We're heart
broken. Do you think it's wise
for a boy to drop out of high
school before he gets his di-
ploma? Won't he be handi-
capped in the business worldi
Answer: I think your boy
would make a terrible mistake
to leave high school, after
going this far. We have enough
evidence to know that persons
who don't get through high
school have q much harder
time getting a job. They get
paid less, and are the first to
be fired when any recession
sets in. Not everyone can &c
to college, but I believe that
everyone should at least finish
high school.
Don't you realize. by now
that it's not all your sons
fault? You say you insisted
that he take the college
preparatory course. Maybe he
is now letting out his resent
ment against you for forcing
him to take q program thai
he didn't want. It's too latC
now, but he might have beer
happier in a commercial or
vocational program. It's hare
to know how to advise oul
children, ist't it?
What to do now? Before he
leaves in mid-term. see if you
can get him to go to his schoo
guidance counselor. Or, il
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to eliminate the teacher, thus
saving future groups of chill
dren from an unfortunate ex-
perience.
Either way. the reports, II
accurate, are worthy Of every
ones attention. .E-ei
&SsS -.
Write Dr.. Mason IN care Of
The Epentn1 Star. He mill
discuss questions OF greatest
general interest In his column.
Tussdoy Ion Feature Pese): 70.
scores. -
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The outhoF, q Pulitzer Prize reporter
IS education editor Of the North
American Newspaper Alliance
Questions concerning education ono
career con be addressed 10 him
core Of The StuF. A stomped, self.
addressed return envelope mus
occompony eoch question.
nothing else will change his
mind, let him change to a
business course even at this
late date. That might keep him
in school. BY all means. try
your best to keep him from
dropping out. But nagging
won't help. Common sense
might. Its worth trying.
Question: 1 am a high school
freshman and am very much
interested in becoming a
teacher abroad. What colleges
should I apply to so that ]
would get a good training for
this career? I like to travel.
Answer: You have a laudable
goal, but your motive is ques-
tionable. I'm afraid that you
want to teach abroad because
as you say, you love to travel
1t doesn't matter: You can
still go abroad to teach. But
I want to give you a word OF
advice: Don't set your heart
on it at this early stage. You
have three more years of high
school, then four or perhaps
five years of college. Actually
you don't prepare to be a for
eign teacher. You should gel
a good education, and after
high school, go to a teachers
college. If you wish, you might
go to a liberal arts college
for four years, and spend YOU
fifth year in a school of edu-
cation.
After you get your teaching
certificate. get a job teaching
in this country. Most foreign
countries want teachers who
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Boder Gallery

There are quite a few
competent fnuralists In art
today. but there are almost
no free-lance muralists. Mu-
rails originate, for the most
part, with q man who owns
q wall. He either does or does
not have ideas about what
he wants on his wall, but he
does want something on it.
To Set 1t, he gets In touch
with a muralist. Out of dis
cusSions, sketches, submits
sions, reflections and revi-
sions, a final design is agreed
upon, a cartoon, often, made
first and the finished mural
executed according to plan.
Mitchell Jameson, of the
art faculty of the University
of Maryland. has painted a
mural on his own, without
a commission. Painted on
canvas. the work. PRONE
theus." is presently mounted
on a stretcher and is the
dominant item in a show of
the artists recent work at
the Bader Gallery.
Commissioned Murals
There is a healthy trend
today among corporations
erecting new buildings to
commission murals of we'll
known artists, thus giving
them the too rare opportuni-
ty TO work on a monumental
scale and at the same time
enriching the daily visual
lives Of people who work in
the buildings. Sometimes the
results are unhappy, as in
the Hans Hofmann mosaic
mural in a New York lobby.
Mosaic. while enduring. goes
against everything Hofmann
has achieved in his painting,
the careful laying of tesserae
being almost a mockery of
the artists joyous spontanei-
ty. Worse still. the Hofmann
mural is so placed as to be
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ART AND ARNsTs
Corcoron 1-Mon Shows
For Local Artists
By FRANK GETLEN
Star Art Critic

One Of the most useful services performed by Corcoran
Gallery OF Art is its series of shows for Washington
artists 1t is true that artist Washington need any
longer about getting wall space for exhibition The
problem now to keep out of the clutches house
managers resaurateurs and parking lot
propretorS all Of whom stand ready to enter
at the least sign of announcement anyone But
this is different from show in should also be
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

cORcORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily 10 am. to 4.30 pm:
Saturday, 0 am. TO 4.30 pm:
Sunday and holidays. 10 IS pm;
closed Monday. Through summer,
Jewels by Faberge.
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION, 1908
Thirty-second street NV. Daily,
TO 8 pm; closed Monday. Closed
July and August.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive SW.
Daily, 8 an 10 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION or FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily. 8 am. to 4:3O
pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY or ART, Con-
stttution avenue at Sixth street NV.
Daily, 10 am. to 5 pm: Sunday
70 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1891 Twenty
second street NV. Daily II am.
to 8 pm; Monday, IL an 10 10
pm; Sunday 2 to pm.
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Pan American Union

There are peope who stare
for hours at the vast ex-
panses of color in Mark
Rothko paintings, waiting
for the surface to come to
life. Such admirable patience
can get its reward at he
Pan American Union, now
showing 13 large paintings
and some monotype prints
by Rogelio Polesello, 22-year-
old artist from Argentina.
Whereas Rothko ordinarily
keeps his colors separate,
painting the top half of a
canvas in one color, the bot
tom half in another, Mr..
Polesello brings them to-.
gether. putting a pattern of
one color over a ground Of
another, so the base shines
through and the two colors
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in the Capital, there are few
commercial galleries that are
the real Mccoy in the sense
of paying their own way all
the way. Some are CT Cmbined
with other businesses, some
are artists co-operatives,
some are welcome tax-losses.
Very few are really self-sup-
porting.
This being so, the gallery
visitor is often at a loss as
to how seriously to take the
situation he finds. In a
money society, such as ours,
few Washington galleries
pass the ultimate test of
value. Hence, the Corcoran's
series is extremely valuable.
II provides another criterion,
the considered judgment Of
an art institution. That, too,
can be wildly fallible, as may
be seen in the basement of
the Metropolitan or on the
walls Of the Museum of
Modern Art, but at least it
is a place on which to stand
for the purpose of viewing
art.
Second Year
The Corcoran has just be-
gun the second year of this
series with an exhibition Of
the sculpture of Jose Ber-
mudez. Formerly known here
as q painter, he has recently
been working in metal,
= buffed polished, bent and
welded together.
There are three authentic
in-the-round pieces in the
small exhibition; the rest are
reliefs, including one free
standing piece which is a
two-sided relief. Relief sculp-
ture is as old as the hills
, and indeed was probably the
first form of sculpture in
the caves inside those hills.
In this century abstract
sculpture has also explored
this ancient idea and the
work Of Mr.. Bermudez fits
into q well-established mod
ern tradition.
The first thing that strikes
the eye about both the in
the-round pieces and the wall
pieces is that they are well
put together. In the weld
anschauung of much con-
temporary sculpture, the
welding itself is often mex
cJisably sloppy. Mr.. Bermudez
has taken the trouble to
learn how to do it. He has
done more than that. He
has seen some of the pos
sibilities in the process it
self. He has effects of tone
in the work that come from
the torch. 1t is also pleasant
to see a welder using clean,
strong metal instead Of spare
parts from old machines.
Mr.. Bermudez arranges his
pieces Of metal on a flat
surface, playing graceful low
arches Of planes against, for
example, sawed off segments
of tubes. The pieces are
mostly named for the signs
of the zodiac and the sculp-
tor is developing a restrained
color system out of copper
and steel.
The in-the-round pieces
are first rate examples of
the problem-solving geome-
try developed earlier in the
century by Lipschitz and
Kandinsky.
Silver Spring Mural
BY one Of those happy
condolences that are all too
rare in art, it has been an
nounced that Mr.. Bermudez
has been selected to execute
a mural in the lobby of a
new apartment building in
Silver Spring, Md. The mural
will be a steel relief sched-
uled for completion by May
1. Mr.. Bermudez was chosen
for the $500 commission by
a jury consisting Of Her
man Warner Williams. jr.,
director of the Corcoran;
Mrs. Adelyn D. Breeskin.
director of the Baltimore
Museum of Art, and Manuel
Baker, director of the IFA
Galleries here.
Pan American Union
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BY LESLIE J. MASON
Professor Of Education. University
Of Southern California

o. SOutnern Calhornia
Talk of teacher shortages
can stir up king -sized worries
in many parents. If good teach
ers are in short supply some
children must be getting along
with second best.
This suspicion is enough to
start some people on a witch
hunt, the WITCH" of course,
being the incompetent teacher.
They may be harder to find
than you might think.
Incompetence in teaching is
more a lack Of positive teach
ing techniques. abilities and at
titudes than the presence of a
single outstanding negative
factor. School administrators
are steadily eliminating those
few teachers whose faults are
self-evident.
In most cases, there Is no
instant way to recognize an
incompetent teacher. It takes
time and continuous observa- :
ton to discover weaknesses In
the positive pattern.
Some Characteristics
1t is true that certain char
acteristics seem to be found
more often among outstand-
ing teachers than among the
less capable, but no one char
acteristic will divide the good
from the bad.
Most outstanding teachers
have superior intellectual abil-
tiles and have records Of out
standing school achievement,
but there are some very fine
teachers who did not make
honor societies in high school
and college.
Most outstanding teachers
are interested in music, paint
ing, literature and religion
but not all are interested in
all or even any Of these things.
Most outstanding teachers
come from families in which
their parents or other close rel
atives were teachers, but some
most certainly did not.
Most have had a background
in some form of child care.
They may have been camp
counselors, club leaders or may
be just baby sitters-their own
or someone else's-but many
fine teachers have had very
few such experiences.
Participate Actively
Most outstanding teachers
participate actively in the af-
fairs of groups and the COM
munity. Some, however, are rug
ged individualists who shun
any organized activities not di-
rectly related to their field.
Most comprehensive surveys
in recent years indicate there
are three qualities most likely
to differentiate strong fr m
weak teachers. These qualities
are all related directly to the
classroom atmosphere.
Strong teachers nearly al
ways demonstrate understand
ing, friendly classroom beha-
vior. They like children and
are interested in seeing them
make progress.
Strong teachers are respon-
sible and systematic in the op-
Grafton of their classrooms.
They realize that learning is
a task to be accomplished-for
both the students and the
teacher.
Strong teachers strive for a
stimulating and imaginative
classroom situation. They know
that learning thrives on Sus-
tanned interest.
How to Judge
If your son or daughter has
a teacher who seems to fit into
this pattern, rest assured. This
is an outstanding teacher. The
pattern describes an interested
and interesting person.
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u1lpOoSlUtc 70 see dS q WlOlc
or even as a developing con-
tinuity.
Mr.. Jameson, however, has
a muralist's experience
stretching back almost a
quarter of a century to his
working on the United States
Treasury art projects in Flor
ida and the Virgin Islands.
He has done murals for post
offices In Maryland and Ohio
and q recent mural is in the
Conference Room of the
Controller Generals suite In
the General Accounting Of
flee building here. The
experience tells in PRONE
theus." The paintings totally
organized, with an abstract
geometry pulling together
what looks like q cast Of thou
sands interpreting and pro-
longing into history the feat
Of the Greek mythic hero.
Pr0metheus
The central conception Of
Prometheus himself combines
the two achievements of the
hero: his stealing Of fire
from heaven and his accep-
tance Of punishment, chained
to a rock, pecked at by a
vulture.
The center of the mural is
a pillar Of fire, which is also
the trunk Of the hero's body.
Head thrown back, his
mouth is open in triumph
and horror. his arms cast up
in victory and surrender. The
hero is bounded by a great
circle, family suggesting Vi
truvian man. and the rest Of
the canvas is teeming with
animals, persons, architec-
ture and the starry night.
Variations on the Promethe-
an theme range from Adam
and Eve setting out from the
garden, to what looks like
modern man setting out into
space. In one section, tall
Troy burns in the distance.
In another we are almost on
top Of a dying horse. The
painter varies perspective
and point of view to perform
a substantial feat of synthe-
sizing the flow of history
with the meaning of q myth.
The mural will take repeated
study and this is one Of the
classic qualities of paintings
for public walls.
The gallery also contains
some large ink drawings and
half q dozen tempera paint
ings. The drawings seem
most closely related to the
feeling of the mural. The art
list draws figures from myths,
including those of modern
times. such as Ishmael, the
narrator of "Moby Dick"
and the Hungarian revolt
against the Soviet Army.
New Aspect
The latter, combined In
the title with Guernica, is
represented by a powerful
bull, stuck with bandilleros
but supreme over the pros
trate bodies of the Spanish
and Hungarians. In this and
other drawings. the artist i'm
merses his figures in a close
net Of black lines which ef-
fectively suggests the arteries
and veins of the blood
stream or the exposed nerves
Of the body.
The half dozen paintings
reveal a whole new aspect Of
the artist. Flower studies
from the Lily Ponds east Of
Washington, they combine
vivid color with strong pat
tern and glow with vegetable
life.
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Intensive courses; q GressI
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How TO Judge

If your son or daughter has
a teacher who seems to fit into
this pattern, rest assured. This
is an outstanding teacher. The
pattern describes an interested
and interesting person.