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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, September 18, 1971
Page Two THE MICHiGAN DAILY Saturday, September 1 ~, 1971
art
William Collins presents color
on a color field background
By LARRY ADELSON
Through the end of the month,
Lantern Gallery (301 N. Main)
is showing paintings by William
Collins. Collins is a color-field
painter working with airbrushed
areas of subtly shifting colors
which stretch across his can-
vasses.
The gallery compares his work
with that of Rothko and Olitski,
and the comparison is probably
a useful one since it makes the
limitations of Collins' frequently
good paintings more apparent.
The similarity with Rothko is
at times virtually unavoidable,
that with Olitski is, to the re-
viewer, more obscure.
In either case, he differs in
two respects from them. The
first is in the quality of the
surface of his paintings which
are airbrushed and quite finely
finished. They contrast with
Olitski, who also uses an air-
brush but to spatter on rough-
textured and rich and vari-
colored areas of paint in con-
trast with Collins' smooth color
shifts. He differs from Rothko-
quite obviously since Rothko's
work was hand brushed and
quite honestly so. Being as sim-
ple as they are, and lacking the
perfect balance for, say, Albers,
his work suffers from the lack of
texture.
-Daily-Tom Gottlieb
Crowd hers Water
A mammoth crowd last night, turned out at Hill Aud. to hear blues singer Muddy Waters. When The
Daily went to press last night, Waters was just be ginning his set. (For a review of the concert, see
Sunday morning's art page).
Cody and the Airmen: A lot of
charisma and some fine music
They also differ in that the
areas of color drift across and
off of the canvas whereas Roth-
ko kept his quite within the
limits of the canvas and Olitski
plays an awareness of the edge
of the picture-plane against the
central areas. The result of this
is to dissipate the power that
could be generated if the areas
were defined.
Collins does, however, give us
one painting which is significant-
ly different from the others and
which does seem to escape the
above criticisms. This is a large,
grey, painting which has a
vaguely triangular 'cloud' 'loat-
Boy's school-fantasy?
LINDSAY ANDERSON'S
Tues., Sept. 21-
7 & 9:30 p.m.
auditorium a-angell hal
ann arbor film cooperative
ARM/Michigan Film Society
Jeon-Luc Godard's
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the Rolling Stones
Anne Wiazemsky
1968 color
TONIGHT
7:30 & 9:30 $1 cont.
NAT SCI AUD
SATURDAY 9/8
GU ILD
Saturday and Sunday
LA ST RA DA
by
FELLINI
Dir. FEDERICO FELLINI,
1956
With Anthony Q u i n n,
Guiletta M a s s i n a and
Richard Basehart. Quinn
buys Massina to be a
clown in his strong man
act on tour in Italy. Win-
ner of Academy Award
as Best Foreign Film.
ARCHITECTURE
AUDITORIUM
ing in it. The effect is lumines-
cent and atmospheric. While the
painting has a simplicity which
I feel that the art scene is now
moving away from, it does over-
come some of the faults of the
other paintings and holds a
promise for future work.
Please Follow Smokey's AE "..
ALWAYS hold
matches till cold
BE sure to
drown all fires-
CAREFUL to
crush all
SMOKEYmke
Eastern Michigan
University
presents
Mary Iravers
with Livingston, Taylor
SATURDAY,
Sept. 18, 1911
8:30 p.m .
BOWEN FIELD HOUSE
Tickets: 3.50, 2.50, 1.50
Available-:
U. of M. Ticket Service
Eastern's McKenny Union
All JL Hudson Stores
Tickets also available at
Michigan Union
Classifieds
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recording "Sympathy for
Devil"
the
Anne Wiazemsky
a young Maoist French actress,
playing Eve Democracy
"To be a revolutionary
intellectual
it is necessary, finally, to cease
being an intellectual at all?"
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TONIGHT
7:30 & 9:30
$1
ARM/Mich. Film Society
Jean-Luc
GODARD
is the single most important
force keeping the art of film
alive."
-Pauline Kael
"A movie experience of major
importance."
-Canby, N.Y. Times
ROLLING STONES
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 18
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MORE
APPLAUSE FROM THE CRITICS
By ANITA CRONE
and JIM IRWIN
Well, there they were, back
again, doing it again - without
even trying. They were wig-
gling, gyrating, vibrating with
the audience, recreating, recall-
ing flashing hallucinations of
Elvis Presley at his best and
funnier than Elvis's funniest.
Glorious with feeling, hilarious
ecstasy, the Lost Planet Airman
"now Ref ound in their good o1'
home and haven, Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
Commander Cody played like
they had never left the town,
like never before. The audience
stomped like never before. This
was the crowd they were created
for, that created them in the
coffeehouses, and bars of their
}home. They were back, the audi-
ence was back, too. Romping,
-raving, stomping, h owlIin g,
-screaming, halleliula. Back
again? Timeless.
No more of those insane
.-screen projections of Playboy-
style mannikens flashing in the
. oggling faces of truck drivers
the myth that society had cre-
ated. No more of those distrac-
tions; just pure sensational
music that was a gas.
With the first strains of
electrified violin the audience
was electrified, both figuratively
and literally, climaxing with
Cody plinkity, plank, plunking
sounds old and new on the old
klavier, complete with hair
dangling in the dirty, now worn
with justice, piano keys.
Cody was back, too, singing
his song about being chased by a
cop in his Lincoln Continental
and the fiddler sawing out a
siren.
Billy C., as always, banging on
the guitar that was never either
tuned or plugged into the am-
plifier.
And the audience just ate
it up, loving it for every mo-
ment in the moment, what they
had always been waiting for, the
good '01 days. They gave it back,
too, all together now stamping,
shouting.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION!
Lindsay Anderson's
Tues., Sept. 21-
7 & 9:30 p.m.
auditorium a-angell hall
ann arbor film cooperative
JOIN THE REVOLUTION!
Lindsay Anderson's
Tues., Sept. 21-
7 & 9:30 p.m.
auditorium a-angell hall
ann arbor film cooperative
I almost fell out of my chair-
a backache contracted during
my vigil with Steve and John
now finally obliterated.
I didn't give a damn about the
chairs all lined up with no
room, or people stepping on my
feet (and nobody minded my
stepping on theirs, either.)
Cody and his Airmen was
contrasted by Steve and John,
obviously a beginning duo at-
tempting to play Blues. Unfor-
tunately for the two perform-
ers, it takes more than haphaz-
ard playing and telling the
crowd "that we're here to have
a good time and so are you" to
make a first or even second rate
performance.
The Blues is an involving
kind of music, and it is import-
ant that the audience as well
as the performer become in-
volved. This just didn't happen
with Steve and John.
They tried-they really did,
and at times they came reason-
ably close to success. Like the
harmonica playing of John. He
almost had it. But it was lost,
as they went on and on in the
same basic blues progression, al-
ways in the same key, and al-
ways in a monotone, not only
vocal but instrumental as well.
There is the idea of what
a performer is there for. And
what kind of concessions a per-
former must make to his audi-
ence. This reviewer feels that it
is important that a group re-
cognize the signs of boredom
and ennuie, as well as swelter-
ing heat, and get off the stage
when they achieve their peak.
In last night's performance both
heat and playing reached a peak
at 'the same time. Steve and
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Because it's my
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That's why.
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John just didn't do this. The
crowd didn't come to hear them,
and after about half an hour
the crowd had heard enough. It
was Cody they had come to
hear, and it was Cody who
made the evening worthwhile.
For those of you considering
going to hear Commander Cody
and his Lost Planet Airmen to-
night and Sunday at The Alley,
it is best to get there late.
-T T
Program Information 662-6264
DOORS OPEN 12:45
Shows at
1, 3, 5, 7, & 9:0 5
JULES VERNE
TAKESYOU OVER THE
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Roommate with
a Classified Ad
Not to
be missed!
An uncommonly beautiful and
evocative film by the master of mood and memory!"
-Archer Winsten, New York Post
"Fellini's best since 8,. A work of love! "
-Joseph Felmis, Newsday
it would be impossible to dislike a film so full of good
spirits, so full of love, a show that on occasion virtually
erupts with brilliance!.
-Vincent Canby, New York Times
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"A work of genius! A refreshment for all!"
Pat. & Victoria
Ga rvey
"One of the most powerful
sounds on the contemporary
folk scene."
--Judith Crist, New York
Levitt Pickman Film Corporation PWso4s
FEDERICO FELLINI
Technicolor' . (a
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FIFTH AVENUE AT LIRTY
11111 DOWNTOWN ANN ARBOR
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SAT., SUN.-2, 3:45, 5:30,,7:.15, 9:00
LATE Show SAT., 10:45
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7:00 & 9:05
75c
"lively and haunting"
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PAT & VICTORIA GARVEY
will give a workshop on
CONTEMPORARY SONG WRITING
SATURDAY, Sept. 18-2 p.m. at the ARK, 1421 Hill
50c for non-members
A U of M Folklore Society Production
SATURDAY & SUNDAY MATINEE AT 1 P.M. & 3 P.M.
The Wayside Theatre will show the immortal classic of nostalgia,
"National Velvet," with little Liz Taylor and Mickey Rooney.
ADoE theres
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Shown Daily at
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