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THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, Pa., Monday, May 12, 1969 15 Three-Man Art Showing Opens at Lehigh [[image]] AT LEHIGH EXHIBIT - Peter Niesner (left), cultural attache of the Austrian Embassy in Washington, and Prof. Francis J. Quirk (right), chat with artist Robert Reid of New York City during opening of three-man art show in the Lehigh University Alumni Memorial. Reid's painting, entitled "6 Figures With Large Rock," is at right. The late Austrian painter and sculptor, Siegfried Charoux - whose works are now on exhibit at Lehigh University - fled his country for the West as Hitler rose to power, and his oils, watercolors and drawings reflect the quiet torture of a displaced person. New York painter Robert Reid's 14 college paintings, and 12 drawings by Californian Edith Carlson are also being shown in the Alumni Memorial galleries through June 8. Charoux, who died in 1967, demonstrates his strong defense of nature and life, though he himself did not enjoy much of either. In eight maquettes, the subject is people - but there are significant omissions in the works which reflect powerful observations. "Judge," a study of a bronze monument commissioned by the English government that is located in the square fronting the Royal Courts in London, has no heart or face. Just as in "Man Reading," there is nothing written on the pages. Charoux, a friend of G. B. Shaw, Churchill, Lady Astor and others in England during his last years, shows another facet, however, in his drawings, washes and watercolors. Linial, rhythmic areas show poetic outbursts and masterly brushwork. Frequently also his gouches acquire a sculpturesque character by overlaying color and carving brushstrokes. Robert Reid's paintings are based on the imagery of numbers, which he calls figures. Whether they are Arabic, Roman, Babylonian or Greek is unimportant because it is the emphasis on time, death and other measurable statistics that is his subject. He seems to find the figure symbol wholly oblivious to the gathering of people. "Six figures With Large Rock" and "Figures Seen From Sea No. 1" are organized heiroglyphics and hence more timeless than would be a scenic picture. The small "Figures on the Beach" and "Beach House With 3 Figures" are versions of the monumental "Beach House With Figures P.M." and "Figures Falling" on a theme of the man as a individual and hence a universal figure. Edith Carlson chooses black and white texture drawings to provoke, and her titles imply the metaphysics of space as the "Space Line," "Above Dark" and "Beginning of Things." The exhibition hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, 2-5 p.m. Sundays and 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Arthritis Unit to Honor Pair Two outstanding arthritis campaign volunteers will be honored by the Lehigh County Unit, Arthritis Foundation, at a dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Lehigh Country Club. Their names are being withheld temporarily. Mrs. Harold Schatz, executive director, said the dinner will be attended by members of the board and the city, borough and township leaders of the annual arthritis campaign. Partly, the dinner will be a kickoff for the Lehigh County residential drive. Some 2,000 workers are poised for the house-to-house solicitation which is scheduled to start Thursday, May 15. ADVERTISEMENT FIX BROKEN DENTURES AT HOME IN MINUTES Amazing new Quik-Fix repairs broken plates, fills in cracks and replaces teeth like new. Fast! Easy to use! No special tools needed. No costly dental bills. Works every time or your money back. Accept no substitutes, always ask for BRIMMS QUIK-FIX Denture Repair Kit At All Drug Stores GET YOUR UGI
