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Avinash Chandra Mohan Samant F. N, Souza Charles McCall Ivor Weiss
Seven Moons, 1961 Shiva and Shakti, 1964 Still Life, 1961 St. Michael's, Chester Square Boredom, 24 " 30 111.
Commonwealth Institute Commonwealth Institute. Commonwealth Institute 10 X 7 in. O'Hana Galleries
Indian Painting Now Indian Painting Now Indian Pa1nt1ng Now From his one-man exh1b1tion
Lent by Mr. Oswald Jones opening at the F. BA. Galleries
1 on 30 March

Stokes, were showing on successive floors of the the intensity of its colour in detail. Overall, the design,
Marlborough Fine Art Galleries. Like many members the total impact is of an additive tastefulness with a
of this group, what passion is revealed in the work modest submersion of self to the level of applier of
lies in its tiniest part, the application of the paint itself, pigment on the inspiration of a filtered knowledge
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rather than a clamant necessity.
Lawrence Gowing is already well-known as teacher
so it is not surprising that his paintings demonstrate
ideas based on principles not new. The abstraction
of tree-forms was developed to a degree by Mondrian
though the English artist is more concerned to show
how a pattern can be invented from the interior light
showing in a wood. 'Spareness and restraint' are the
1 dominant qualities recognised by his co-exhibitor.
Adrian Stokes has no didactic authority in his small
still lives and figure paintings. The grape of the scene
has been squeezed dry but where has all the juice
gone? The colour scheme of browns and violets
conveys the mist rather than the glaring sun and the
delicacy of tone often lacks the solid shadow. Here,
one feels, are a poet's pictures, a contemplative de­
tachment invests them without a 'purple passage'.
Across the road at the Marlborough New London
Gallery Bruce Lacey held an exhibition of his so-called
'sculptures'. The term is one that can be debated as
accurate although it is certain that they are objects
made in three dimensions and in one case the form of a
room with an aura of a murder scene. Generally the
appearance is of neo-Dada with electrically-powered
movement in artificial limbs, hands and torsos attached
to frameworks and cases where machinery is used
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