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1 ?/ o Pre-Raj It was to Aestfietica's pleasant surprise to discover two PreRaphaelite paintings in the Columbia Museum of Arts' permanent collection. Although both of the works were executed considerably later than the bulk of PtVl.PanhoalifA nntnfiniffl nn/1 Ki? a * v AMipiiuvuw pdinviiigOy a 1.1 vi ujr an artist of no great significance historically or otherwise, they remain pleasing to both the eye and the mind. The artist I speak of is Evelyn de Morgan, an English artist who in her time attained moderate success in terms of both selling and exhibiting her work yet remains nnnnvmnnc in frho pnnfovf nf orf history. Had she been active fifty years earlier, she might at least have gained the association and thus the scorn so lavished upon the Pre-Raphaelites. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as it was first known, was formed in 1848 in London by a small group of seven artists and writers which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett win*.:*. m.? I?J ? miuaia. mc uup cajj^iiiucu as other artists began to rally to Raphaelite ideals,. which were fundamentally of a romantic and moralistic nature yet were also directed towards the increasing Movies from page 9 South Carolina. When Alan Rudolph's award-winning Remember My Name and Marjoe Gortner's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder failed to generate boxoffice heat in their New York engagements, Columbia gave the distribution rights back to their respective producers. Remember My Name has received a few playdates in the area (it played a week in Atlanta and Charlotte, and it opens Friday in Greenville), so it conceivably could play here before the end of the year. Hnlv fuin poronf filmo frnm Ortfh v/iiij Knv t wvi*v i? vm mvmi Century Fox have failed to receive a national release: Sunday Woman, starring Jacqueline Bisset, and The Devil Is A Woman, starring Glenda Jackson. Both were made in 1975 and played nowhere, to my knowledge, except New York. Two other Jackson films, Stevie and Hedda, have not been released here, nor have two films based on r ten plays of Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People, starring Steve McQueen, and A Doll's House, starring Jane Fonda. Two of the past three winners of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Black and White in Color, and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, have also avoided Columbia. American International's Sunrtyside, a gang movie starring Joey Travolta, played at a drive-in in Anderson but hasn't been seen 1 9 At A _ A ?? *mm eisewnere in u?e siaie. me snout, starring Alan Bates, and Once in Paris, starring Wayne Rogers, have played Atlanta, as have Luchino Visconti's The Innocent, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Jennifer O'Neill, and Claude Chabrol'8 Violette, starring Isabelle Huppert and Stephane Audran, but none of the four are scheduled to be released here. Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack were supposed to have opened in Columbia over the summer, but both were canceled and neither has been rescheduled. With a total of 24 first-run theatres now operating in Columbia, many of them showing such Karba&e as House of Crailea. Beyond the Door, Part Two, and the umpteenth reissue of Up In Smoke, is it too much to ask that some of the films I've mentioned be given a chance to prove themselves? Dhaelites academia of expression and instruction. Because of such concerns, the group found itself pressed between what the critic saw as regressive in form and style. The groups' shortlived existence was completely finished by 1860, yet the PreRahpaelite "style" continued to re emerge periodically. Which brings us back to Evelyn de Morgan and her two paintings at the Columbia Museum entitled "The Flower Goddess" and "The City of Light". The paintings are on display in the large Trustees Gallery along with numerous other collection pieces, and they unmistakeably stand out as possecive of a totally different sensibility. The fine delination of line, the flowing majestic treatment of the human form, the extreme exaggeration of detail; all characteristics of PreRahpaelitism in general, and all working towards the poetic and visual ideal personified of each given subject. Yet nnmistflkMhlv th#? mrvet striking thing about the two works is their utterly contemporary feel. Not so much in a specific "high art" context, but more in a graphic illustrative fashion, in an il^^HHil Mj 3SR' . :v>:j88a saKSi Mercouri and Burstyi J | Urgently needed people w I Medical Research. If you no I the past 2 weeks mono, you I week for 3 hours of your tir [J information. Mon. thru Fri I Serologicals I Suite 105 2719 I Columbia, i LADY ( 9 ANNE KLEIN X our price , t oncz jc/ a retail for $36 $ ALL-WEATHER CC $ OUR F J WOOL LINED S 7 OURF X BLENDED SKII I OURF y 2000 Blossom St. ANDLO v 1 block from Harden V Master Charge * Monday-Saturd almost commercial way, they are instantly seductive. The exageration of detail, for instance, undermines spacial depth, yet rather than destroying the realistic effect, the work is enhanced by making obvious the concerns for surface composition, illusionistic texture and bold colored areas. Pre-Raphaelitism has and will i continue to outlive critical and scholarly debasement, for it utilities such fundamentally human concerns for its appeal. The beautiful forms and colors, the _ii 1 ? t ? aiiegoricai suDject matter, tne , expressive faces, and above all else, the essence of mystery. If you enjoy these two de Morgan j paintings and wish to know more, I j suggest you pick-up James Har- I ding's The Pre-Raphaelites. It's | full of good reproductions and has | short essays on each of the major : artists involved in the movement. | I OTHER INTICEMENTS 1 Also offered from the permanent collection is a fine array of prints :?1?1 _ 1? - wmen mciuue a small oui gooa example of the graphic work of German artist Albrecht Durer. "The Great Horse" is as refined and as strikingly accurate as Durer's larger engravings and is worthy of your attention. There are also two nice prints by Russian artist Marc Chagall, and three very sensitive etchings by sweoisn artist Anders zorn. j n; 'Dream of Passion' 1111 " ith Mononucleosis to aid in w have or have had within | may qualify for $80.00 per ne. Call 254-6537 for more Laboratory Middleburg S.C. 29204 SutleTI EVAN PICONE X ws $22 { reg. $34 y )ATS LINED: Reg. $67 ? 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