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Show Art's relationship to man explored latent in the relationships between man and painting, depending for its release on the openness of the former, the worth of the latter and some indefinable mutuality in both." The paintings require examination examina-tion to discover their character. The result is intense sensation. Eugene Berman creates an ex-traordianry ex-traordianry world drawn from observation, ob-servation, memory, relived themes and real interests in his works in Several important exhibits originating within the University Museum and prepared by the staff will reveal to other institutions following their exhibition here. Coming on Jan. 7 will be the art of Mr. Alex Katz, a New York painter of oils, collages and cutouts. cut-outs. Lends Institute The University will receive BY LESLIE FRIEDMAN Chronicle Staff Karl Benjamin, an artist of hard edge color abstraction and Eugene Berman, a painter who considers himself impossible to classify in a well defined category, have works on display until Jan. 3, 1971 in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition by Karl Benjamin Ben-jamin is part of a continuing process lo create "works of art that are pure formal, and har-monius har-monius quintessence." He attempts to create experiences other than mirror images of ourselves. our-selves. He docs this by expanding our knowledge of reality, shaping relationships between ourselves and the interior and the exterior worlds. Mr. Benjamin has said, "Thcry is. of course, a powerful emotion oil, watercolor, gouche, pen and ink. In Paris Mr. Berman said in Paris in 1964, "Since art is made of a thousand possibilities and contradictions, con-tradictions, one ought to abstain from the easy and general tendency ten-dency to catalog. ..the viable affirmations of our time and the directives one must follow. ..the artist must follow his inner voice and believe in the inevitability of his work." Mr. Berman is one of the most individual and beautiful of painters. The museum will organize and exhibit a major retrospection of his works from 196! in 1972. selections from the Lends Institute and the Fischbach Gallery which represents Mr. Katz. After the exhibition closes on Feb. 7, it will travel to the University of California in San Diego, then to Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul and finally to Wadsworth Anthcum in Hartford. On Feb. 14, a collection of 19th Century Prints will be on display. On March 19, the American Craftsmen's Council Southwest Region Exhibition will be hosted at the museum by the Utah Designer Craftsmen. On May 9, the Graduate Thesis Exhibition, prints by Tom S. Fricano and pottery by Marguerite Wildenhain will be exhibited. |
