Viking 1965

art With grimacing face-impressions, screaming carmen and dismal black smears, and order emerging from a chaotic background, the work of art- ists from an agitated continent splat- tered the ascetic White gallery and stirred the emotions of Portlanders who viewed the II Bi,enal Ameri,cana de Arte. t'or Portland State the Latin Ameri- can exhibit was an artistic coup with- out recent parallel. The tightly- budgeted Art Exhibition committee, advised by Katherine Corbett, opened the show before it was seen in Ameri- ca's wealthy art center, Babylon-on- the-Hudson. The show, which will return from New York to the west coast, was part of the committee's continual drive to bring good art to PSC. This year's program ranged from the classicism of Leonardo da Vinci through Rodin's transitional work to up-to-the-minute pop art from Los Angeles and San tr'rancisco. It[ew Spanish spatialism was pre- sented for the first time in the metro- politan area in a Spanish government- arranged exhibition of four modern Iberian painters. In another inter- national show etchings by Andre Zorn were displayed in conjunction with the celebration of Swedish month in Portland. The unusual mat-like tapestries, coarsely woven with broad stripes and Hebraic letters, in a showing by Tif- fany award winner Muriel Helfman of St. Louis, reflected the rebirth of inter- est in this ancient medium. Other exhibits included the Oregon Historical Society's Shi,p and Shortcut -memorabilia of the Portland harbor and the noble battleshrp Oregon-and, southwest Indian drawings from the Northern Arizona museum. **:5 ''"\t **, A {"* Ft* * * h" t I *"_*.