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Sacrifice Strokes

The Hofmann composed
frenzy of paint, the Kline
composition of a dozen great
black strokes on a big white
space, the Gottlieb familiar
hazy circle lowering above
another haZy circle, are all
three valid enough and GER
tainly easy to look at. But
in this show, you realize that
in so limiting themselves the
three artists have tragically
sacrificed about nine tenths
of the possibilities of paint
ing for the sake of immedi-
ate impact.
A decade ago, it was ortho-
dox belief that such a sacri-
flee simply had to be made;
the true artist had no choice.
either because the atom had
been split, or because the
space age was dawning, or
because the cold war was de-
pressing.
This exhibition brilliantly
demonstrates the error Of
that orthodoxy and demon
strates as well that a wide
group of American painters
has never been taken in by
it.
Notable among the young
er heretics the show cele-
brates is WaShington's Theo-
dore Kliros, whose ID a r k
Flower is the outstanding
still life on view. The pic
ture was seen earlier this
year at his one man exhibi-
ton at the Bader Gallery.
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Urban Decay

The same is true Of Rob-
bert's Mallary's Broom e
Street." in reference to urban
decay. This object looks like
a fairly large hunk of wall
actually torn out of an urban
slum; for all one knows,
that's what it is; at any
rate, in this context, the sur
faces of paper and plaster
seem pathetic and moving,
a comment on human life,
not on the joy Of texture
and unusual materials.
On the other hand, the
three biggest names of alb
Stract eXpressionism in the
show do not stand up to the
competition. Franz Kline,
Hans Hofmann and Adolf
Gottlieb all look a lot bet
ter when they are surround
ed by incompetent immita-
tions of their own styles
than they do when those
styles are juxtaposed with
independent painters, as
they are here.
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Lees Gallery

Down in historic Alexan-
dria, the Lees Gallery is
showing about fifty paintings
by Is local painters, all stu
dents of Betty Pajak. along
with a large aSsemblage of
pottery by Richard Lafean.
Mr.. Lafean'S pots are ex-
pertly made and show a nice
use of glaze, particularly in
one three-headed large base
where the outside is un-
finished and the inside is
richly glazed. 1t looks as if
the piece had been turned
inside out.
Miss Pajak's students are
all masters of a kind of pro-
vincial abstract expression
ism and show great dexter
ity in composing uncomposed
pictures. There are far too
many and they're all too
much alike to make a good
show, but they do demon
strate that the painters are
enjoying themselves hugely.
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PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meetin @ announcements
must be in the hands of the
PTA Calendar editor by
Wednesday OF each lDeek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address
OF meetings, as yeL as meet
ing time and full name and
location OF organization.
Earl Funderburk. superin'
tendent of Fairfax Count!
schools, will discuss the count!
school system at the 8 pm
meeting tomorrow of the We,
yanoke Elementary School PTl
in Alexandria.
Other meetings scheduled fol
the week. at 8 pm. unless
otherwise noted. follow:
TOMORROW
Draper Elementary School.
TUESDAY
Bancroft, Janney. Takoma Park
Green Valley and Chillum Elemen
taries; Langley Junior High Gas pm
and Cardozo High.
THURSDAY
Bowen Elementary (3:l5 p.m) ant
Terrell Junior High.
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The Squares

The most purely intellec-
tual paintings, of course. are
distractions, a set Of squares
within squares by Josef AL
bers, an involved and fasci-
mating set of overlapping
rectangles by Ad Reinhardt,
a geometric optical trick by
Hannes Beckmann, in which
the point of view is doubled
and even tripled as you look.
But even geometry tends
to shade off into represen-
tation of visual reality or
spiritual reality, as in, re-
spectively, Helen Lundeberg's
Interior with Mirror" in
which crisp vertical color
contrasts startlingly reveal
themselves to be a wall, a
corridor, a frame and a look
ing-glass reflecting them all,
and I. Rice Pereira's "Seed
the Sky with Fire" in which
seemingly arbitrary vertical
forms and squares of tex
tured paint become an image
of mysterious presence float
ing above shore and sea,
against the sky.
A number of painters are
more or less deliberately
adopting the methods we
have learned to associate
with abstract expressionism
for purposes far older. Yeffe
Kimball's Blue Space Con-
cept," for example, both in
title, in its enormous size, in
the limitation to blue and
white, and in the deliberate
texturing. would at first
glance fit right into the old
mystique of the space cadets
who began abstract express
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Upstoirs Gallery

Over in historic George
town, on the other hand,
John A. Steele, a Washing
ton man. not only enjoys
himself but offers much for
you to enjoy too in his first
one-man show now at the
Upstairs Gallery.
His technique, based on
something called Swedish
putty" eludes this observer,
but the material is really i'm
material to the enjoyment Of
his images of common Klee.
Owls and frogs appear and
disappear in the generally
small painting. The frogs
have q habit of becoming ac-
tive little blobs with the
shape of the amoeba and the
personality of an impish
small boy. Yet the stuff is
not cute. 1t is amusing
sometimes mysterious, al
ways attractive and expertly
conceived and drawn.
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ART NOTES

An end and a beginning
will be jointly celebrated
starting April 18 at the
Gres Gallery. The gallery it.
self is going out of business
and the final show on the
premises opens that day,
paintings by Wojciech Fan
gor, a Polish painter now
touring the United States
under the auspices of the
Institute of Contemporary
Arts. The Institute itself will
be beginning what will hope
fully be an important series
of exhibitions to augment its
familiar and excellent work
in bringing foreign artists
to Washington and America.
Professor Fangor will be in
town for the opening.
The Smithsonian's Travel
ing Exhibition Service. which
carries on most Of its work
out of town, this week has
two shows in town. It's
Eskimo Graphic Arts" opens
today at the Jewish Com
munity Center; Autographs
by Fantin-Latour" opens to-
day at the Barnett Alden
Gallery.
A travelling retrospective
from the American Fedora
tion Of Arts, the sculpture of
Jose de Creeft, opens Tues
day at Howard University.
Gallery openings include:
Monday. 5 pm. to 7::30 pm,
Tony Bader at the Franz Ba-
der Gallery; Tuesday, Karl
Priebe at the Henri Gallery;
Monday. Richard Schmid at
the /. F. A. Gallery; Tuesday.
Marilee Shapiro at Associat-
ed Artists Gallery; current.
Else Steyaert at the Wash
ington Gallery of Art; Mar
celle Stoianovich at the Fam
tasy Gallery; Sally Osburn
at Dyer Brothers Gallery,
Arlington.
Washington artist Clare
Ferriter is having a one
woman show of her paint
ings at the University Of
Puerto Rico: Washington
artist Nan Hoover has a
drawing in the National
Drawing and Print Exhibi-
tion at Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio.
American University to-
day opens its faculty exhibi-
ton at the new Watkins GAL
lery.
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intellectual Strain

The Koch painting would
have been particularly often
sive to the novelty seekers of
the 'fifties because. both in
the way it is itself put to-
gether and in its overt state
ment about the painting pro-
fession, it shows that profess
sion as work of the intel
lect. The intellect was pop
ularly supposed to be the
death of art during that
decade.
This intellectual strain
proceeds all through the
show at Richmond, yet is
never cold or ingenious or
inhuman, or whatever the
anti intellectuals feared
when they decreed that art
could only issue from the
emotions or, even better if
less comprehensibly, from the
ViScera,
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BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

RICHMOND, Va.-Ever since its foundation, just
25 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been
noted for its Imagination 1t has applied that quality
survey Of contemporary American painting and the
suit is of the most satisfying such exhibitions to be
in any museum in many years.
AS with the museums installations knights armo
Farberge baubles and Egyptian mummies the Virginia
imagination evident in the hanging of the American
One Of the few art to understand the possibilities
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By LESLIE ]. MASON
Professor Of Education, Universit,

VI COAtucth NalllOEuAA
Most people are impatient
for their children. They want
them to get ahead quickly in
school-and even before they
start school. This impatience
is reflected in some of the let
tiers I receive:
Dear DR.. Mason:
My son will be s years old in
February, but he won't be able
to go to school until Septem-
Der. He is a bright boy and ]
would like to teach him things
he would learn in the first
grade. Can you help?
Mrs. c. S., Elizabeth City, N. C
If you find out what is taught
in the first grade in your
schools, please use it as a guide
Of what NOT to teach your son
There are so many interest;
that can be developed, it would
be a shame to concentrate or
the things he will have to dc
over again.
You might find it useful tt
talk to a kindergarten teacher
about preschool training or tall
to the librarian at the public
library. Find picture books fol
him to look at and spend time
reading to him. Take him OF
excursions to help him learn al
much as he can about the com
munity and the people in it.
Dear DR.. Mason:
Should I start studying with
the easiest homework assign.
ment or the hardest? This ha'
bothered me for a long time
because sometimes I spend 81
much time on one subject tina
I'm tired before I start the next
Barbara,
DalhouSie, New Brunswick.
The hardest subject shoult
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Little Louvre

The Little Louvre Art Gal
lery, also in historic George
town, is a lot more little than
it is Louvre. 1t is currently
showing a dozen paintings by
CoStas LaSkaris, a Greek
Canadian who executes out
door scenes of country and
town with complete compe-
tence and no life. He is least
impressive with a reclining
nude totally devoid of feel
ing for either anatomy or
flesh, and at his best in a
view of the Greek Coast.
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Far Out GuIuxies
But IL ioesr,t Ifu,

But it doesn't. If you have
any experience at all in look
ing at astronomical photog-
raphy. the large painting is
clearly a representation of
the galaxies beyond our own.
The picture is really COM
posed of what astronomers
call "galactic clouds" and it's
a very impressive work.
Charles Sheeler, the old
master of the geometry of
nature. is represented by a
lovely painting of Sun,
Rocks and Trees" in which
deep purple shadows are as
real as light and rock.
In the context Of the ex-
hibition, some of the far out
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of controlled light, the Vir-
ginia Museum has achieved
absolute control here. Only
the paintings are lighted.
There is no general illumi-
nation and the light on the
art is precisely shaped to the
edges of each work.
Furthermore, the walls on
which the show is hung are
arranged in a kind of maze,
so that the visitor sees only
a few paintings at a time.
The point Of all this is not
dramatic effect but an imagi-
native system for helping the
visitor see the paintings.
Evening star., 1962-04-01

a certain grimness in all his
work, which is augmented
considerably when you recog-
nize a skull or a dead body
midst the encircling gloom.
For this viewer the liveli-
est and most attractive piece
was q small "Piranomaquia"
the title word adopted from
Tauromachia and those
frightful little fish reputed to
strip the flesh from your
bones in minutes if you fall
overheard. The tiny mon
sters crowd the picture and
every mark in the paint
seems the mark of a tooth.
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
Seventeenth street and New York
avenue NV. Daily. 10 an. to 4:30
pm; Saturday. o am. to 4:30 pm:
Sunday and holidays. 2 to 8 pm;
closed Monday
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH L.
BRARY AND COLLECTION. 1908
Thirty-second street NV. Daily.
to pm: closed Monday. Closed
Indefinitely
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive S.W
Daily, 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue al
Tenth street NV. Daily. o am. &C
4:30 pm.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue at Sixth street
NV. Daily, 10 am. to p.m.i
Sunday. 2 pm. to 10 pm.
PHILIPS COLLECTION, 1912 Twenty
to 8 pm: Monday. II am. tc
10 pm; Sunday. 2 to 2 pm.
Evening star., 1962-04-01
EDUCATION
FORUM
By BENJAMIN FINE

She's better off at home, with
her mother. But kindergarten
is important. Studies have
found that children adjust bet
ter when they enter first grade
if they have attended kinder
garten. Many school systems do
not have a kindergarten pro-
gram, mainly for reasons Of
economy. In my opinion this
is poor economy. Your child
will benefit from her pre-school
experience. But I'd wait until
she is two years older.
Some bright children can
benefit from kindergarten at
age 4. But most school systems
will not admit them until they
are at least Az or 5 years old.
That would permit the child
to be in kindergarten for one
year before entering first grade.
Question: My older son, who
is 3, takes great delight in
hearing stories read. AS a sort
of game, l frequently question
him concerning his under
standing of the chief incidents
in them, and his replies indicate
a comprehension of the ideas
presented. He seems to have a
good vocabulary for a child his
age. How important is such
reading aloud to the vocabu-
larry development Of a child?
Answer: Even at age 3, chill
dren enjoy being read to, and
absorb much of what they
hear. OF course, your child
doesn't understand the exact
meaning of each word. But
he gains great delight out Of
hearing you read to him and
even greater joy at being near
you. Sometimes parents are
amazed at the way these little
tots appear to understand what
is being read. After you've read
a story to a child several times,
woe be unto you if you skip
a sentence, or even a word!
The child will admonish you
and say: Daddy, you skipped
line!"
To answer your question
specifically: Reading out loud
to youngsters is important for
vocabulary development. You
can't begin reading too early.
I have seen babies less than a
year old listen attentively and
happily, as mother or dad
read stories or poems to them.
Did they understand what was
being read? Probably not. Is
it valuable? Decidedly! There
would be fewer poor readers
among our children if more
parents did what you are
doing. AS a father of four
daughters, I know that it's lots
Of fun for dad. too.
Evening star., 1962-04-01
Work of John Koch

Mr.. Hayes came to his task
unhampered by such compul-
sions. You realize this with
a shock as you round the
first bend in the maze and
come face to face with Gard
ner Cox's superb portrait of
Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter. You also realize
what we've been missing due
to our institutional infatu-
alton with novelty for its
own sake.
This lesson continues
throughout the show. Near
the Cox, for example. is a
brilliantly painted essay on
painting by John Koch. "The
Studio - End of the Day"
Mr.. Koch is, on balance, per-
haps the most elegant and
finished traditional painter
working in America today
and all these qualifications
have disqualified him from
many major exhibitions of
the last decade and a half.
In theory painting itself is
supposed to have been the
one subject permitted in that
period, yet here is a major
work on that theme which
would not even have been
seriously considered by the
exhibition makers. The piece
brings together the begin
nings of an oil reclining
nude, the pencil sketch for
the oil. the model. dressing.
the bed on which she re-
clined and the painter him.
self, cleaning his brushes.
Within the picture there is
Evening star., 1962-04-01
SCIENCE
CALENDAR

This information is Sup
piled BY the Joint Committee
on Press Relations OF the
District of Columbia Council
on Engineering and Archi-
tectural Societies and the
Washington Academy of Sci
enceS.)
auim-10:30 am. lecture. National
Science Foundation Auditorium. 1851
uNEsSo"; pr. Victor KovSs: director
UNEsCo. Paris. Public.
Institute Of Radio EnEineers, Pro-
fessional Group on Electron Devicesl-
8 pm. dinner, Beef Treat Room, 18th
sna n katuHa aist0ry Stony nesfns nesh s. aSd
velopment and Applications X. D.
Smith, Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Tuesday
American Institute Of Mining, Metal
lgrEical and Petroleum Engineers
IWashington branchl-5:45 pm. din
Connecticut ave. NV. THE 1860 1851
Gait Conferences: Its implications for
the Minerals Industry; William A.
Botanical Society Of Washington-
& nm. meeting, auditorium. Plant In
dustry, Station, Beltsville. Nd. "Orna-
mentals-In Small Way; Drs. Neil
ricultural Research Service. Department
OF Agriculture; Public.
Institute Of Radio Engineers PRO
fesSional dIrnn2 grGup On .s Nuclear scisnces,m
PEPco auditorium, 10th and sts.
NV. Problems and Nuclear Instru-
mentation Associated with Satellite
Nasa Nss0rato5iss": MshS,,: DR.. George Ludwig
washington Society Of EnEineers-s
pm. meeting. John Wesley Powell audi
tortum, 217O Florida ave, NV. "Project
director Of Earth Sciences. program,
National Science Foundation.
Minerslcgical Society of the District
Of Collmbia-6:15 ?; m. dinner. Ham
msrs Restaurant, 416 10th st. NV: 8
scum. 10th st; and Constitution ave,
NV: Minerals Found at Meteorite
Craters Throughout the World; DR..
Edward c. T. Chao of the Geolosical
Society Of Fire Protection Engineers
| chesapeake Chapter)-6:30 pm, din
ner. Jimmy Comber's Restaurant. 2O59
University blvd, Adelphi. Md: $50
meeting, Fire Service Building, Uni
versity Of Maryland. "Fire Protection
Ensineers as Expert Witnesses": George
Prussing, consulting engineer Public
Entomologieal Society Of Washington
IS pm. meeting. Room 43. National
Museum, 10th ST. and Constitution ave
NV. The Net-Winged Midges": Dr. C.
p. Alexander, University Of Massa-
chuSetts.-Public.
! Research and Engineering MANAGE
ment Reundtable-7:30 pm meeting.
Brookings Institution auditorium. l775
Massachusetts ave. NV. implications
on Government r. and D. Programs
/ OF the Presidents Memorandum on
Conflicts Of Interest: panel discus
sion.-Public
Saturday
National Capital rs
meeting. Department Of Commerce
auditorium. l4th st. and Constitution
ave. NV. About Time" film OF the
Bell Telephone Co. science series.
Evening star., 1962-04-01

disease, instability or conflict.
The commission, sponsored
by the National Education As
sociation and the American AS
sociation of School Admins
traitors, set forth its views in
a report, Education and the
Disadvantage American"
The school must make every
effort to help the underpriv-
ileged child sense that educa-
tion has some meaning for him,
the report said, and it added
His learning activities should
be challenging, but if they are
beyond what he can accomplish
with reasonable effort, they be-
come meaningless Illustrations
Success encourages self.
respect, stimulating the pupil
to further progress and to q
higher level OF aspirations"
Text Revision Asked
The report noted that the
ability to read is basic to sue
cess in education, and con-
tinued:
1T is not uncommon for dis
advantaged children, If they
ccme from illiterate or semi
illiterate homes, TO reach school
age without learning what
reading is; no adult has ever
read anything to them. The
difficulty Of teaching them to
read is manifest.
One of the commissions sug-
gestionS was that reading
materials should take ac-
count of the backgrounds OF
Evening star., 1962-04-01
MASON ON EDUCATION
.PreschooI Training
Should Be Different

be second on the list rather
than first. An easier subject
will start your mind working
and get you into the mood for
study.
Try to budget your time so
that each subject receives some
Of your attention. A break of
four or five minutes between
subjects will help get rid Of the
tired feeling.
Dear DR.. Mason:
Our 14-year-old daughter
reads slowly and inaccurately.
Her vision is excellent. The
optician says it is likely she
has a reading problem often
found in left-handed persons,
We would greatly appreciate
your opinion.
H. ]. Colusa, Calf.
There are many causes for
slow reading, such as the form
ing of words with the lips or
in the throat, the listening to
each word as it is read or
merely the habit of reading
slowly.
People, however, are right
eyed or left-eyed just as they
are right or left-handed. Peo-
pie who are left-handed and
right-eyed sometimes have diff
ficulty with schoolwork. This
could be your daughters prob
lem.
You would be wise to take
her to a reading specialist or
clinic. And be sure to mention
your opticians remarks.
Have a question? Write to
DR.. Mason in care of The
EUening Star. He Dill dis
cuSs in his column those OF
most general interest.
Tuesdoy Ton Feature Pose):
Toke Your Time.
Evening star., 1962-04-01

Question: With today's en-
phasiS on speeding up the edu-
cational processes. am I wrong
in not standing over my chill
dren with a club? My bachelor
brother has reprimanded me for
not forcing my 9 and 10-year-
old children to study two hours
daily. Am I remiss? To what
extent should parents become
involved in their children's
studies? Is it better to leave
them alone?
Answer: You are right. Don't
stand over your children with
a club, or with anything else. I
have found that you can't force
children to study. or to learn. if
they don't want to. Many par
ents worry and nag themselves
and their children to death. To
no avail. Somehow. nagging
and punishment do not serve
any constructive purpose.
How, then, can you persuade
your youngsters that two hours
a day. or three hours, should
be devoted to study? Indeed,
that it is essential to keep up
with homework assignments?
have found that homes that set
a good cultural tone, in which
the parents show an interest in
their children's school work,
and put a high value on books
and on education, usually do
not have to nag.
You can become involved in
your children's studies by dis
cussing homework assignments
with them, visiting their school,
meeting with their teachers
joining the PTA. voting in
school board elections, and in
every other way showing ar
active and positive interest. But
when it comes to the question
Of standing over them every
minute of the day with a club
or interfering with their per-
sonal lives, I'd say don't do it,
Encourage your children tc
study. But don't force them
They will only resist and resent
you II you do.
Question: At what age should
children go to kindergarten:
Will this help them to be bet
ter prepared for elementary
school? I have a 2la-year-olc
daughter and I wonder how
soon I should start her in kin
dergarten. She is we'll behaved
and is intelligent.
Answer: I have found thai
the best age to send children
to kindergarten is from foul
to five. Your child is too youns
now. Even though she may be
well behaved, she just wonr
be ready to be on her own
Evening star., 1962-04-01
Experts Urge Revision
In SIum Child 7 eochinq
BY G. X. HODENFIELD
Associated Press Staff Writer

group of leading educators urged yesterday that the
public schools design educational plan especially tailored
for the children of the slums.
The Educational Policies Commission said the type OF
schooling suitable for most middecass children not appro-
pirate for those whose homes characterized by poverty
Evening star., 1962-04-01

"Amerieon Pointing, 1862" at the
Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts,
Richmond. through April IS. The
museum is on the boulevard at
Grove ovenue. From Washington:
Shirley Highway to U. S. ! to the
Petersburg turnpike. exit at bouIe-
word and drive southwest to Grove.
Closed on Monday. Open Sunday
2 pm. TO s pm. Other days, z pm.
to 6 pm. and 8 pm. to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1962-04-01
ART AND ARTISTS
Contemporary American Art
On Exhibition in Richmond

material makes a lot more
sense than it does when pre-
sented, as it has been up to
now, exclusively in the COM
pany of the far out. Gyorgy
Kepes is represented by ma
ture Patina," a complete alb
straction, heavily textured.
Here it becomes representa-
tional, even illusionistic. in
it's reference to the subject
of geological decay.
Evening star., 1962-04-01
McCIoy Gets Post

President Kennedy yesterday
named John J. McCloy chair
man Of the general advisory
committee to the United States
Arms Control and Disarma-
ment Agency.