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Caen and Bath stone. His monolithic and rounded 'Movement' at the Hanover Gallery brought together
forms have the natural projections and hollows that we as fine a collection of works by contemporary artists
see in pebbles. knuckle bones and the consecutive interested in the subject as has been seen here to date.
curves of the human torso. Mostly of small size. their Calder's swaying antennae in cut-out metal respond to
proportions are monumental and contain in their all­ air and touch in the wayward fashion of a wild
round flow of volumes an integrated wholeness that stallion's tail; Pol Bury's metal sticks contain the one
fulfils the promise held out from each side. that moves when the current decides-in his case it
Marcelle van Caille. a Belgian artist who has lived in is the pause that contains the dramatic suspense.
London since 1954. also showed at the New Vision her Morellet's sphere of square-sectioned cross-angles is a
individual relief constructions in which she used felt. cellular satellite. Tinguely's passing scimitars are an
fibre glass and paint to create images of almost Arabian dance without music. Harry Kramer constructs
volcanic density and colour. Their coruscating surfaces wire creatures of elegance in which can be seen the
reflecting mineral colours bring the atmosphere of age­ centres of energy.
old caverns into a room with strange force. At the R.W.S. Galleries, the Society of Portrait
Enamels. under a real artistic control, have all the Sculptors held its twelfth annual exhibition-nothing
visual delight of a jewel and some of the sensual appeal flamboyant. yet some good works amid the mass of
of the best abstract paintings. Marit Aschan, exhibiting mediocrity. I liked Anthony Gray's Earl Attlee. Colin

her enamels at the Leicester Galleries, had early experi­ Walters· Jane, Michael Rizzello's Jamaican Girl.
ence as a painter and her concentration on the more Archibald Ziegler's Emanuel Levy. Laurence Bradshaw's
permanent art form seems a logical extension of her Hugh Macdiarmid and Franta Belsky's Charles Dawson.
small 'skyscapes· based on cloud formations seen from Two women artists held one-man shows of charm if
an aircraft that she was exhibiting some years ago. no great range. Lucette de la Fougere, a Frenchwoman
William Townsend, also at the Leicester Galleries. has living here. presented a refreshing variety of landscape,
travelled much in Canada and his oils and drawings still life and animal paintings at the new Artist's Own
shown here are the fruit of his last visit. Their bright Gallery. Dalia Antonina, a visitor from Rio de Janeiro.
flat colour conveys the feeling of the pure light of the hung high-keyed canvases at the Brazilian Information
North American hills and cities which are painted in a Centre. Boys, flowers, cockerels all reflected her zest
contrasting abstraction. and sympathy with things alive and bright. ■
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