PageTwo 'THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, March 1, 1969
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Program Informationj665-6240
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By ROBERT LYTLE
The Michigan Museum of Art
presently has an exhibition of
contemporary piints on loan un-
til March 16 from the Winston
collection in Detroit. It is an
exciting, stimulating exhibition
with works by Andy Warhol,
R o b e r .t" Rauschenberg, Max
Ernst and some twenty other
artists.
In the course of the twen-
tieth century, artists have 7e-
lentlessly explored the pos-
sibilfties of painting. More than
the poets, novelists or drama-
tists, the modern artists 'iave
consistently challenged tradi-
tional ways of viewing the world
and have sought new forms to
express their vision and under-
standing. -Starting with Manet
and continuing through to Andy
Warhol and Barnett Newman,
they have violated every rule
and convention in their attempt
to define, not only the picto e
. plane,, but another reality en-
tirely. Today, there are no rules,
no conventions left and the ar-
tistls free to use whatever 'orms
necassa ry to express his vision.
The exhibit in the Alumni Me-
morial Hall is a startling ex-
ample of the depth and com-
plexity of that vision.
I say startling because I was
unprepared for what I even-
tually found: it is one think to
talk about new ways of seeing,
but to actually see in new ways
is'a different matter.
I had walked around the ex-
hibit, looking briefly at etch
work and trying to understand
what each one was about. I must
admit that my mind was not
on the prints before me---I was
thinking about the article I had
to write. I ended up with Bai -
nett Newman's work, The ,1o-
ment. It is a piece of plexiglass
about six inches wide and Three
feet tall. The center is light blue
and is bordered on either sidle
by a band of darker blue. I
liked it . . it was pretty.
unpretentious . . . I liked the
way it just seemed to go on arid
on . . . I realized that the length
was arbitrary, but . . . then I
looked at the title again: "The
Moment."
It was like realizing the sleep-
ing pill you took an hour ago
was not a sleeping pill at all--
but some heavy amphetamine:
my thoughts were speeding over
that "Moment." So I started all
over again, knowing I had miss-
ed it all the first time through.
I learned in History of Art
272 (a great course if Diane
Kirkpatrick is teaching it.
I don't know about anyone
else) that Robert Rauschenberg
is one of the most. important
and influential of the Pop ar-
tists, but I never really knew
why. "Accident" and the "Stunt
Man" prints provided the an-
swer. I had thought I under-
stood Allen D'Archangelo's un-
titled work the first time
around. But now, the more I
looked at it, the more confused
and bewildered I became. But
also delighted and entranced.
So it went with virtually all of
the prints. One or two remained
closed, but most of them open-
ed as I stepped back and lept
into them. They ceased to be
merely prints and became ideas,
perspectives----whole worlds
themselves.
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It is important to understand
why I missed so much the first
time. Basically it's because I
felt I could understand the pic-
tures without taking the time
to get into them. "Yeah, um .
cubist, perhaps futurists in-
fluence . . . um, concerned with
interplay of color planes . ."
But that's not it at all. Modern
art . is deceptively simple; it
often takes time and patience
to understand and appreciate
what the artist has done. Be-
cause the artist is often con-
cerned, not with showing new
things but with new ways of
seeing old things, it also re-
quires an open, inquring mind.
So it's there in that little
room, in the Art Museum . . . all
those new ways of seeing, all
those questions . . at least until
the 16th of March. You
shouldn't miss it.
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