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Rarely Seen FrenchPHOENIX, Page FiveEtchings On EAn exhibition of 80 etchings and drypoints from The Brooklyn Museum entitled The Etchers Of Paris: 1850-1900, opened in the Print Gallery on February 21 to ' remain on view through April 15. Included in the exhibition are many unfamiliar and rarely seen works by such French masters as Manet, Degas, Rodin, Pissarro, Lepere, Meryon, and Cassatt, and offering the viewer an opportunity to see yet another aspect of their work. Admission is free.During the 18th century, original etching was little practiced ahd less understood. Etchings and engravings were primarily done byprofessional etchers whose dry and mannered techniques were put to the task of producing portrait engravings and prints of works in other media.In the early 19th century, it was the painters, rather than the professional etchers, who were responsible for the revival of interest in this art, the future of which they felt to be in danger. The center of the revival was Barbizon, the first famous artist%u2019s colony founded in the 1820%u2019s in a small village on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. Many of the painters spent long periods at Barbizon, carrying their copper plates into the fields to record impressions of nature at first hand. Daubigny, Jacque, Legros, Corot and Millet produced landscapesTry-Outs SetOn Monday, March 12, 7:30 P.M. in the Francis White Room at the Unitarian Church, 50 Monroe Place, there will be try-outs for anyone interested in acting in a program for the benefit of the Heights and Hill Community Council. The program, %u2018%u2018Comedy Quartet,%u201d will take place on April 13 and 14, 8:30 p.m. at the church. The directors are all experienced w :%u2018 h the Heights Player- 1 Off-off Broadway. Anyone interested in trying their skill on stage and backstage is invited to come.and scenes of peasant life imbued with the strength and nobility these artists felt was characteristic of those who lived close to the earth.Later in the city of Paris, Charles Meryon produced etchings whose somber and mysterious qualities made them much more than routine city views, due to his ability to fill them with light. %u201cThe whole problem of etching,%u201d wrote Victor Hugo, %u201cis that of the light and shade...M. Meryon solves them magnificently.%u201d Followers of Meryon such as Maxime Lalanne, also turned to the city as subject and in 1850, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire %u2018discovered%u2019 a valid new theme for art in the personality of the city.By the 1860%u2019s and %u201970%u2019s, etching had become a popular midium sought after for its own qualities. Cadart, the publisher, formed a French Etching Club in New York City in 1886. The Societe des Aquafortistes, founded in 1862 by artist-critic Felix Bracquemond, boasted such members as Manet, Daumier, Whistler, Degas, Pissarro, Legros, and Courbet, most of whom at that time were beginning their careers, and all of whom were later to become illustrious names in French painting. Together they had the courage to experiment with new techniques as well as the desire to see the art of engraving flourish once again.The Etchers Of Paris: 1850-1900, vividly illustrates how paintersFine FilmsContinued from Page 4outrageously funny. Our favorite character is still the A-rab, who serves as Putney%u2019s arm-waving, jive-talking Jiminy conscience.All in all, %u201cMarjoe%u201d and %u201cPutney Swope%u201d are just two examples of the fine features shown consistently by,the Heights Cinema, a place that more residents of the area should note well.%u2014GINA LEBOWITZCRAZYWe're not. But we do sell records 8. 8track tapes at 75 per cent less than listprices. We sell record company overruns. CLOSED Monday Friday. OPENONLY EVER Y SATURDAY 10-5 andSUNDAY 10-5. Located out of the way at163-8th Street - Corner 3 Ave. Brooklyn.Record & TapeWarehouseWilliam H. Van VleckWINES & FINE SPIRITSRecommended by116MontagueSt.Lowest DiscountLiquor Pricesin tfieState ofNew YorkDelivery:MA 5-5444and sculptors in the late 19th century made prints with a fresh, spontaneous disregard for the rules of technique bringing to the medium the impress of personality and a variety of individual concerns. In contrast to Mary Cassatt, whose swift lines and sweeping strokes were due to her working directly from the model, it is interesting to see Manet%u2019s deliberate attempts to copy his own paintings over and over on the plates, giving the compositions a studied quality. Pissarro, whose first etchings were influenced by Corot and Millet, went on to use aquatint, learning to heighten the tones, vary the values and obtain from the copper plate the same variety of greys that he achieved on his canvases. Lepere enjoyed the flexibility that etching gave him to experiment with different drawing techniques and play with light and shade, while the sculptor Rodin was able to adapt his technique with the chisel to the etching needle. He would attack the plate almost as a piece of marble, beginning with heavy strokes to outline his forms and gradually decreasing the intensity as he went along, giving his engravings an extraordinary relief.Setting the tone for THE ETCHERS OF PARIS will be a slide show of old photographs of 19th century Paris and many of the artists represented in the exhibition. A check list will be available without charge.LECTURE: Love, sex and pornography. Fri., Mar. 2, 2 p.m., LIU Brooklyn Center, Humanities Bldg., 8th floor. (Free); OVERLOOKING THt BRIDGE: Friends of Colony-South5 Brooklyn Houses gathered last Friday night for an evening of : dining, dancing and gaming at the New York Plaza Club. Pictured are (left to right) Carolyn McCollum, benefit chairman, Mr, Bill Banks, Colony-South Brooklyn Houses Director, and Jane Van Cleve.At The Museum:Two Concerts In MarchMusic from the 17th to the 20th centuries for trio and quintet will be performed at Brooklyn College at two concerts in late February and early March. First on the agenda is the all-faculty Brooklyn College Trio, which will give a free lunchtime concert on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 12:15 p.m. in the college%u2019s Gershwin Theater, Campus Road and Hillel PL, near the Flatbush-Nostrand Ave. intersection, On the program is the Trio in B-Major (Opus 8) by Johannes Brahms and the Trio No. 1 (Opus 67) by Dimitri Shostakovich.The Dorian Woodwind Quintet, the college%u2019s quintet-in-residence, will give its second concert of the academic year on Saturdayevening, March 3, at 8 p.m., also in Gershwin Theater. Tickets are $2.00.On the quintet%u2019s program are works by Bach, Carter, Moss and ReichaSunday PoetsContinued from Page 4lectures on art history, and written for) Arts Magazine. Mr. Dorn has twice been vice president of The Poetry Society of America. He has been associate editor of three poetry anthologies published by New Orlando Publications and is currently working on a fourth.On the first Sunday of every month, actors rather than poets give the reading. On March 4, Robert Einenkel will read from the poetry of Kenneth Patchen.Emf tnCHAIRMAN GIVES THANKS forMID The chairman of the Midwinter Art Exhibit at Christ Church and Holy Family wishes to express his thanks to all the people who worked hard to make the weekiong Festival of the Arts a grand success. First mention goes to artists, craftsmen and :%u00abK%u00bb: photographers who exhibited their works. In the show itself, special mention goes to Leo and Dianne Dillon for their engineering of the small jewel of a gallery on the first floor: James Hughes, for his thoughtful invitational photographic show, must be particularly commended. Another highlight was the popular crafts room under the supervision of Liz Hill. I thank all performing artists and give a special vote of thanks to the four people who made information about the festival available. Without them there may well have been no artists to show their works, no broad public awareness of the festival and no sponsors to back the endeavor. I thank each and every person who attended the festival. I commend most highly the staff of PHOENIX and especially Corrine Coleman for her unprecedented coverage of our festival.f t IiHE0Sn8Hf tf tmHf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tmf tf tf tBmf t%u00a5f tf t%u00a5An alphabetized listing of credits follows:Art GalleriesDianne Dillon Leo Dillon A1 Henriques Muriel HenriquesExperimental FilmsJack Coddington MusiciansCrafts RoomLiz HillAnthony Coleman Quartet Bill & Brandi Hayden Mary Inwood E. C. Knieriem Kenny KrytelPhotography Gallery Dean Michener Ursala MildeJim HughesTheater.Till R%u2019n r'h c & T h e H piohTc;Players%u2019 Group Bal de TeteCafe ExhibitionistAnne Birbaum M. A. Laurie Rose MonteDanceMari De la Soudiere Pierce GeretyHonorary HostsDr. & Mrs. Luis QuirogaLightingPete Lopez Posters Liz HillTonio Salguero Lise WilliamsPublicityToo nrslsi *%u25a0u u o v p i mSalesIT n m K o v'/T tHelen WinshipFoodDernetre PolimerosEvelyn HughesTreasurerFlorence AdamsWINTERSHOWArtist ContactMary Lou ShahawySponsors ContactBarbara SpillerSpecial RecognitionPublic Relations & Committee CoordinatorM. A. (Gypsy) LaurieWorking CommitteeJoan Balaguer Arthur Bernhardt Sheila Charas Ed Christensen Albertji Haynes Amy Henriques Matthew Henrigues Oliver Kirkpatrick Fred Lewis George Polimeros Leonardo Ruggieri Mark Silva Donald Somerset Anita Walker Jeanne Winham Bill Winship Calib Winship Jaye YuleWilliam Pyles,Chairmanf tf tf tB%u00a5Bf tf tmf tBf if tmnmmf tf tnmf tf tnwf tf tB%u00a5f tf tf tf t%u00a5*%u2022%u00bbnf tf tf tB%u00a5 .