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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT S um m er k. O penings ucsb art exhibitions Perhaps it’s the gloom of this June begin. weather, but I feel uninspired by the three To the viewers already familiar with the art exhibits that opened on campus artist, “ Works On Paper” is an interesting yesterday. How can you explain the still document on the development of Matisse’s emptiness of not something you don’t like, style. The Renoir bronze works achieve but of something that is just rather — dull? similarity in showing the familiarity of Realizing the tremendous significance of Renoir’s work with his model Renee Jolivet. the names Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri The eyes, lips, bottom-heavy stance and Matisse only reminds me of a print that broad hips of the larger-than-lifesize statue hangs above a friend’s couch. One-third of it “ Venus Victrix” are classically, if almost m m is comprised of five black lines making the boringly emphatic of Renoir’s more im portant works. The sculpture is significant S > s figure of a woman’s backside and the only thing on the right side of the drawing is the of Renoir’s three-dimensional move in his 1 ®Sgg artist’s signature — Picasso. Would the later life. It is difficult, however, to separate drawing have any real merit without that the hands of the artist with the idea in this I signature? exhibit, for Renoir’s hand is not alive in the I Renoir: Five Major Works and Henri flat pitted surface of “ Venus,” nor the rest Matisse: Works On Paper and Bronzes is a m m W B a m of this exhibit which was executed under his k m M â two-fold achievement and disappointment direction of Richard Guino because of the for the University Art Museum. It’s a great artist’s crippling arthritis. Pr^S;-s:ÎWîf:'.-''-'î privilege, both academically and leisurely, Also on campus at the Women’s Center W Ê m Ê m m Ë m ¡¡Ill s , V 'O '' j£Sv ; to have works of two of this century’s Gallery is the bronze, wood and marble masters on exhibit here at UCSB. But the sculptures of the Los Angeles-based artist, works that ore here signify not solely the Tara Potterveld. Ani-mater: generating life ! difficulty in borrowing important works, but is an interesting study in a variety of the lack of funding and support that one of sculpture textures. Though much of the the few accredited UC art museums suffers subject matter is the simplistic depiction of from. peasantry, the mythical quality is charming The significance of “ Matisse: Works on in some of the characters like “ Frog Paper” in part shows the process of Mother,” which has frogs crawling out of Matisse’s draftsmanship. Specifically, the the back of a bored seated woman, sym squeezing out of space and enlargement of bolizing birth, or “ Buddhist Snake Mother,” the interior backgrounds with detailed in which cobras similarly crawl out of the graphic-like patterning, see the shift in the back of an Indian woman gesturing a * 't&gjioEiii lithograph “ Grand Nu Au F^uteuil” (1925). blessing. >.<<Dag What is frustratingly important in this work is the illustration of the exemplary Fauvist The College of Creative Studies also concern that appears in Matisse’s paintings. opened an exhibit yesterday featuring the The disappointment comes in seeing it in large fruit and vegetable paintings of lec black and white and not in the brash colors turer Tim Schiffer. Don’t ask what it all of Matisse’s representative trademark of means because the walls will echo back the the post-impressionist period he helped flatness of rotten vegetation. by Laurie L. McCullough above: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Venus Victrix" (1915-16), piaster cast: right: Henri Matisse's lithograph "Jeune Femme Au Bouguat Fleurs" (1923); below: Tara Potterveld's bronze "Frog Mother" M pM l photography by Jennifer Ellis-Nolte ¡ ■ i 2A Wednesday, June 22,1988 Daily Nexus dream. Almost every teenage boy fantasizes about losing his WHO’S BIG NOW? virginity to an older woman, and through the Hanks character the males in the audience get to relive their youthful dreams., (By contemporary standards though, no studio would make a film about a 12-year-old girl who is transformed into a woman and then loses her virginity to an adult male, and is there some sort of Freudian significance to the title?). And if they could live their lives over, maybe, as does the younger side of the Hanks’ character, they would like computers more. 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