Show The Herald JournalAfterhours Thursday October Growing interest in primitive art is spreading Frederick M Winship and save the last two sections for later as they are more UPI Senior Editor peripheral - The MOMA show will travel to the Detroit Institute of Arts 19 1985 and to the Feb Dallas Museum of Art June NEW YORK (UPI) The new season has turned out to be a celebration of primitive art n with a major museum shows in New York including a landmark exhibition linking tribal and 20th century works at the Museum of Modern 27-M- ay half-dose- 23-Se- pt of primitive Washington’s National Gold” through March 17 Center for African Art — "African Masterpieces from the Musee de rHomme” through Jan 22 travels to the National Museum of African Art tern of fascination with primitive art on the part of museum personnel and art lovers in general "It’s been in the air” explained Sylvia Williams director of the African collection at the Smithsonian Insitu-tio- n “It didn’t just happen overnight “There has been an intensifying interest on the part of the public which is traveling more and is more curious about other cultures Also scholarship has improved So all of these things Art” which runs through Jan 15 provides an analysis of the influence of tribal art of Africa Oceania and North America on modern art It was five years in the planning and is the most art: Metropolitan Museum — “Te Maori Maori Art from New Zealand” through Jan 6 American Museum of Natural History — “Asante: Kingdom of Museum of African Art will get into the act later this month with another special exhibit Curators for all these shows deny any collusion but there is a design to the emerging pat- have begun to converge and you have a sort of awakening" MOMA's “Primitivism in 20th 1 Other current museum shows Art Century 18 1984— 5 (Washington) April 9 11-Ju- ne Institute — “Beauty by Design: the Aesthetics of African Adornment” African-America- n through Jan 5 Museum of the American Indian — “Out of the Mists: Northwest Coast Arf” at the IBM Gallery through Dec 29 Animal An example of the influence of primitive art is the exaggerated nose Picasso molded the bronze portrait bust of his mistress Marie Terese Walter in 1931 so that she on resembles a Nimba mask from Guinea which Picasso owned They can be seen at the "Primitivism in 20th Century Art" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Answers th when African objects became relevant and full of interest” Rubin said “But tribal art did not in itself turn the history of art around” scholarly presentation of Western However Picasso’s first view primitive art ever mounted in of primitive art came as a the United States It also is the centerpiece of a revelation that European art exhib- had lost its primordial sense of cluster of chance-relate- d g as a magical its organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Ameri- enterprise Rubin recalled that Picasso can Museum of Natural Histoonce told him: "In that monew Manhattan’s for Center ry African Art the African-America- n ment I realized what painting Institute and the was all about” Picasso began to collect Museum of the American Indian Tied in with the shows are primitive objects as did other artists — Braque lectures seminars films con- avant-gard- e Brancusi Matisse Derain certs and even the visit of an African king Otumfuo Opoku Nolde Matta Epstein and Max Ernst The holes in Henry Ware II of Asante (Ghana) 20th “Primitivism in Century Moore’s sculptures and Art" underwritten by Philip Giacometti’s elongated bronzes while Morris is attracting the largest are African inspired crowds to MOMA since the 1980 American painter Marsden Picasso retrospective Picasso Hartley was influenced by plays a major role in the Plains Indian art he saw on current show since his revolu- display in Berlin The Cubists and Fauvists tionary canvas "Les De- were particulary drawn to moiselles d’ Avignon” (1907) was one of the first European highly schematic abstract Afcanvases to show an the influ- rican art while the Surrealists ence of abstracted sculpture — found inspiration for their fantasies in Oceanic and American specifically Fang tribal masks MOMA curator William Indian art particularly the Rubin who organized the show Northwest Coast people and the The use of found notes that Picasso and other Eskimos Parisian artists had begun objects assemblages and accumulations tribal artists producing conceptual and also influencedbyWestern artists 1906 a abstract art by year before Picasso first saw African image-makin- and Oceanic art at the Trocadero Ethnographic Museum (now the Musee de l’Homme) while he was completing “Demoiselles" “Radical changes in 20th century art already had begun : A perfect example of influence is the exaggerated nose Picasso molded on the portrait bust of his mistress Marie Therese Walter in 1931 so that she closely resembles a Nimba mask from Guinea that Picasso owned Less easy to pinpoint is the inspiration for Miro’s paintings with figures similar to Eskimo masks painted before the artist ever had seen Eskimo art The large show is divided into four sections — concepts history affinities and contemporary explorations — and spreads over several floors making it difficult to digest in one visit Ideally the visitor should see the first two sections which are basic to the theme of the show by Dr Roger Johnson NUTRITION AND AGE When a dog reaches an age of 10 to 12 years its nutritional requirements change because of changing body processes and of course the decrease in exercise In general more meat and more diet supplements such as vitamins are needed while fewer starchy foods and carbohydrates are required Instead of being fed all it wants the dog should be given limited quantities of nourishing food each day It can still be given tidbits but not many fattening delica-cie- s Extra fat tissue on an older dog hastens its and puts added stress on weakening organs Older pets like humans require fewer calories as their 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