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lENTIl USC' BY JANET LEE Robert Motherwell, American abstractionist painter, art critic, author, teacher, and editor will receive the University of South Carolina Award for Distinction in the Arts and deliver a lecture entitled "The Artist's Mind" at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Business Administration auditorium. Motherwell began his career with the study of philosophy at Homer's W Highlight BY JANET LEE Currently on display at the Columbia Museum of Art is. a collection of watercolors and drawings by the 19th century artist Winslow Homer, who developed the genre of landscape and episodic subjects with sensitive observation into a theme of the relationships of man to nature, and achieved an heroic expression that is one of the highest achievements of American Art. All of his watercolors. though small in scale, are monumental k and broad in concept and exhibit a I U.S.C. C Is Hav: (Ru Date: Monday, An lonors A Stanford University where he graduated in 1937. He continued his studies at Harvard where he developed an interest in art. A paper on Delacroix's journals led him to travel to France for further research. There he became intensely interested in the history of art as well as in his own painting. In 1940, Motherwell- enrolled at Columbia University to study art history under Meyer Shapiro who atercolors, Museum I freshness and immediacy of vision that owes to his direct approach of painting out-of-doors, face to face with the subject. One of the most engaging, im portant, and exciting exhibits to appear at the Museum this year, the Winslow Homer show must be ;een by all who are interested in art, and particularly in the development of American art. Also on display is a major exhibit )f South Carolina artist entitled 'Tidewater Artists." The show is >road and representative of a >rovincial area in many respects: ampus Bo ing A Pati .ssell House Pal kssorted Glassware rt Supplies Nylon Jacket ril15th - SWednesday.Apm bstract P introcuced him to the European abstract and surrealist painters then congregating in New York. Among them were, Duchamp, Mac Ernst, Mondrain, and Roberto Matta. Shapiro encouraged Motherwell to give up the scholarly pursuit of art history and to devote himself entirely to painting, and to this end Motherwell began work with Kurt Seligman, an outstanding surrealist draftsman and painter. Drawings )isplays a variety of styles and approaches are evident; there is "something for everyone"-ranging from the Sunday afternoon styles to the more sophisticated, if superficially understood "New York" ten dencies. Evidently, Southern artists are becoming more and more cognizant of the mainstreams, and through assiduous study and assimilation of current concepts in art, the talent exhibited in most Carolina artists' shows may develop . into a major and serious art. okstore oSale a io) -il 17th 9:00 -4:30 1inter Motherwell's first one-man show was in 1944 at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century Gallery in New York City. In 1948 he co-founded, with painters William Baziotes, David Hare, and Mark Rothko, the "Subjects of the Artists" art school in New York. He edited The Dada Painters and Poets, was co-editor with Harold Rosenberg of the Documents of Modern Art series and, with Ad Reinhardt, of Modern Artists in America. Of the act of painting Motherwell has said, "Fidelity to what occurs between oneself and the canvas, no matter how unexpected, becomes central...the major decisions in the process of painting are on the grounds of truth, not taste...it is only by giving oneself up com pletely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style." In 1951 Motherwell stated of his own generation that he thought of them as "an artistic resistance movement, or spiritual un derground. The thing we are always saying to each other is 'endure, just endure.' " Motherwell's best known works are among the series entitled Elegies to the Spanish Republic, begun in 1947, in which broad R massive forms (evidently related A to his experience with cut-outs) are a applied with flat black paint, t forming timeless and B monumentally emotional images. A These canvases, of which there are .. over a hundred, form the central body of Motherwell's work. Other pr familiar works .include his sti collages, the Je t 'aime series - nE more-intimate in scale and more pe gestural in style, and his latest St "Open" series, centering on are themes of the wall and the window. in Motherwell has had one-man P, shows throughout the world. He Sc has been included in every major ~ exhibition of American Ab- r stractionism, and his work is at collected in the Museum of Modern C, Art, N.Y.; The Whitney Museum of " American Art, N.Y.; and the-Tate p. Gallery, London, England. SI PSIDERI TUESD) 5 P.M. TILL STUDENT SIRLOIN STE AK CHOICE SIRLOIN SERVED OR FRENCH FRIES THREE LOC) 548 Knox Abbott Bush River Road, 4510 Devine s.treet. n ernat ona ly known guitarist Charlie Byrd, a - bove, will team with Richard Phillips, musician-in residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission, to present a concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 17 in the Russell House's Golden Spur. The Concert is free to the general public. Cultural Happenings Distinguished American poet Dbert Lowell will receive the USC ward for Distinction in Literature id will read from his works night at 8:30 p.m. in the new usiness Administration uditorium. The public is invited ithout chare. e Meaia artist Derek Boschier will esent lectures and demon ations in Sloan College Wed sday afternoon. His. ap arance is sponsored by the udio area of the Art Department, d coordinated by Diana Sammet conjunction with British iinter-in-residence, Derek uthall. Dr. John Schnorrenburg, ofessor of Medieval art history the University of North rolina, will lecture on the tained Glass of Chartres" at 8 n. Wednesday in room 203 of an College. ISA CLOSING NIGH T 1.69 Ith student I.D. V'ITH BAKED POTATO .HOT BREAD ATIONS Drive, Cayce just off 1-26 East olumbia