6B ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/The Charlotte Post Thursday, January 16, 1997 I Art exhibit has style, substance Continued from 5B Americans and the Mexican masses. Nonetheless, if “In the Spirit of Resistance” offered art that did nothing more than push emotional buttons or preach to the choir, it would be of limited interest. To merit extended viewing by a broader audience, it has to possess aesthetic quality. And it does. The exhibit opens with Alston’s limestone head of a woman, dated circa 1937. The planes of her face are broad and simplified, yet handled with distinctive subtlety. Hers is a t5rpe of noble, serene beau ty - large, wide-set eyes; full, sensitive lips; an unabashedly wide nose and strong chin. The hair that frames her face is given a nappy texture, thanks to painstaking stippling of the stone, yet falls straight, enhancing the form’s overall compactness. This type also appears in Alston’s “Lovers,” a circa 1947 pastel emd charcoal drawing on paper — which is aU sinuous line defining the interlocking shapes of a woman cradling a man to her bosom. Alston’s imagery becomes increasingly abstracted over the decades - but without los ing its emotional prmch. “His School Girl” from 1957 — paint ed in black-and-white • oil on canvas - employs rough, broad passages of paint and scratch ing to depict a young girl sur rounded by abstract, yet obvi ously menacing, shapes. In the case of Catlett, what is seen is not so much stylistic evolution as a fierce dedication to socially relevant images, forcefully articulated. Yet her two paintings and single litho graph in the show seem rudi mentary in light of her virtu- osic relief prints. Catlett’s feel for woodblock and hnocut especially is seen in “Bread for All,” a 1954 image of a sturdy little girl. The minute gouges in the linoleum block used to model Havens narrates multimedia CD By Ric Leyva THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Wildlife was never so perfectly tame. Environmental studies were never so much fun. “GeoSafari Animals” brings the great outdoors to the desk top for an in-home multimedia field trip you don’t need sun screen and a signed permis sion slip for. It’s a package tour for kids combining a trip to the zoo, an endangered species showcase, dog and pony shows, wildlife tracking, a reptile roundup and more. Shhh, don’t tell the kids. It’s also unabashed education. “GeoSafari Animals” (Educational Insights Interactive, CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh, $29.95, age 8-up) is a nonvio lent interactive quiz game the whole family can play. Narrated by musician and environmental activist Richie Havens, one of the game’s best features is the ability to select individual player names Havens will then insert during game play commentary. Among the more than 2,000 possible name selections, there is even a slew of common - and some not so common — nick names, ranging from stan dards like Bubba and Duke to oddities like Toastie and Gonzo. Speaking directly to active, individual young minds in their own language rather thsin talking down to them is the most important first step of any educational effort, said Havens, a living rock ‘n’ roll legend who also has founded a marine museum and a hands- on naturalism program for children. “The first thing you learn trying to reach them is that kids know some things infi nitely better than adults, like how to learn, and you better respect that,” Havens said. “As soon as you get that out of the way, then you as an adult can learn from just watching chil dren teach themselves, devouring everything you give them.” Havens, 55, who also narrat ed the earlier Educational Insights title “GeoSafari Multimedia, Vol. 1,” is perhaps best know for his stirring per formance at Woodstock in 1969. The silky throated rock bal- ladeer continues to perform year-round, including many environmental benefit shows and galas like President Clinton’s 1993 inauguration bash. In the 1970s, he co-founded the Northwinds Undersea See Havens Page 7B the girl’s face and hands pro vide an exciting contrast to the quick, springy lines of the wheat that grows in the back ground. Her bronze bust, titled “Pensive” and dated 1946, is another knockout. Representing a woman from the waist up, it is a radically simplified form embodying innumerable, complex and enigmatic qualities. It is easily the most equivo cal work by the artist on view and, arguably, the subtlest in an exhibition devoted to straight-ahead visual commu nication. SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS CAR RENTAL Holliday Auto Rentals, Inc. a/b/a Payless Car Rental Join the ‘Championship Club’ — Call for more Info! * 3 locations: 1931 Roosevelt Hwy., College Park, Ga 30337 (404) 768-2120 4204 Rental Car Rd. Charlotte, N.C. 28214 (704) 359-4640 1100 Jetport Rd. Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29577 (803) 448-3737 Bring this ad in for 10% discount on any rental. 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