ARTS The Michigan Daily Friday, June 17, 1988 Page 8 Exhibit peeks at Picasso's prints BY LA UREN SHAPIR O one of the most transcending figures essentially taken the same format it is easy to see why, as skulls align in Art. The collection begins with a from the cubist print except his themselves with black pitchers while YOU have to give them credit. sense of realism which seems almost etching is lighter and drawn to two nudes lightly parade across a In its current exhibit the University too tame for the eccentric master. perspective with realistic shapes, lithograph. Museum of Art manages to present Picasso's etchings and lines are con- figures and forms. When one While this exhibit is small, one of the largest names in art upon trolled and filtered with expressions compares the two prints, Faberman has done an excellent job two of the smallest gallery walls in of sorrow in "The Frugal Repast" immediately the fragments of the in choosing and organizing the the museum. From the Museum's and joy in "Three Friends". cubist piece fall into place. For prints. Six decades of Picasso's work extensive collection of Picasso instance, the bearded painter who have been well represented. This drawings, etchings, and prints, In an interesting and effective dominates the realistic interior seems exhibit gives everyone a taste of 60 Curator of Western Art Dr. Hillay contrast, Faherman has presented so have evolved from the unique magnificent years in the life of Faberman has organized an excellent two interior prints which were almost amoebic shape in the center Picasso. exhibit on Picasso which traces his completed within a year of one of the cubist piece. development throughout the 20th another. In the first, Picasso has On the next wall prints with PICASSO PRINTS will be on century. infiltrated the print with cubist circular shapes and seemingly exhibit at the University Museum of When carefully examined, features and shapes. The placement romantic tones are interlocked in a Art through June 30. The Museum's compared and contrasted, the ten of figures is hardly distinguishable coordination of traditional themes of hours are 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday - Picasso works in this exhibit reveal the from the background of the print. love and death. Faberman describes Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Femme Au Fauteuil No. 4 depth of genius which made Picasso In the second work, Picasso has this wall as "The Erotic Wall," and Sunday. First Annual Meltdown: A redhot blues scorcher BY TODD SHANKER like a sizzling flash of Bayou Lightning. 0 NE of the more obscure "A female by the name of Koko predictions by 16th century Taylor doth also come that evening. 'astrologist Nostradamus has just Her tremulous, whiskey-charged recently been divulged. After blues shouts shall kick, punch and foreseeing everything from the De- scream like a honky-tonk bar-room pression to John Kennedy's assas- brawl. 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