.:: The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 17, 1986 - Page 9 Kahn exhibition reveals monuments of old Europe r~ By Karen Josefsberg Enter the Museum of Art on State Street. Ascend the winding staircase to the Corridor Gallery. Approach the grey and black sign reading: "Albert Kahn Architectural Studies." Prepare to embark on a memorable journey. The corridor is filled with an assortment of Albert Kahn's astonishing works, or reactions, to a variety of interesting European monuments from his "student-year" abroad in1891. This extraordinary exhibit presents powerful drawings by Kahn, who is also the designer of many structures in Detroit and on the University campus. After receiving a traveling scholarship, Albert Kahn artist arrived in Europe, extremely poor, yet enthusiastic to begin recording his observations of the intriguing, ornamented edifices. The detailed drawings display superlative work - manship on both historical and art- historical levels. Kahn beautifully recorded monuments no longer in existence, and bountifully influ - enced later artists and designs. His innovative sketching represented structures in Europe shown in an impressive style. Most of the material is sketched in pencil, while several works make use of ink. The techniques and themes intertwine and evolve as Kahn excelled as an artist and man. His first few works record with boyish imagination; the elaborate, Gothic, and Renaissance decorations are implied in the Italian structures. But, the romance moves away from the works as Kahn himself matures. The development is evident through the designs. The wonderfully decorative designs in Germany demanded attention in the summer months. The structures he noted in July generate appeal, radiance, and historical importance. Products of a skilled creator's consistent, growing enthusiasm, are captured in these works. Kahn's repetitious patterns and interplays between lines and sur - faces fascilitate fascinating motifs. Overwhelming designs in France depict sensitive details which de - scribe Detroit homes like his own. While in Brittany, Kahn moved away from usual patterns to other methods of conveying works. After intense studies and sketching throughout Europe as a student, Kahn's growing abilities as an art - ist emerged. Later works developed out of his transition into a mature craftsman. Dramatic changes are expressed in chronological order in the exhibit, as he travels from Italy to France, Germany, and Belgium. The rust and black colored grease pencils used in the fall of1891 add heavy lines to Kahn's sketches., Prompted by a new awareness of his strengths as an artist, the shift symbolizes the growth as an artist and man. Kahn's confidence is (clearly conveyed through these sketches, as is his superior talent. 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'Their music-relies heavily on drum tracks and synthesisers, not piano and vocals. Actually, the pictured ivories and ebonies are hardly heard, just a lot of black and white plastic, and Turner's vocals are very unimpressive; a bunch of, "baby I want you"'s and an excess of t'oooh"'s and "aah"'s, but nothing special in terms of content, range, or style. Regardless of the initial diss - ,apointment and lack of concrete. Roses by the Dozen 20.00 - Sweetheart Roses by the Dozen 15.00 Arrangements available - Special order " Bud Vases 5.00 talent, Skipworth and Turner does serve a purpose, no matter how hard to pinpoint. It is slightly, above average dance music: standard dance music mixed with ever so vague jazz overtones. Superior to Rick James, but no where close to the Chip Moyer Trio, or anything else remotely jazz, Skipworth and Turner is something that slides onto WJZZ's format when a D. J., during a weaker moment, succumbs to mainstream preasure. 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