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Mime Portraiture His Specialty |
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By Home News Staff Writer |
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Perth Amboy artist Kenneth Hari, who has earned a reputation as portraitist of the famous, has unveiled a new talent for mime portrayal in his exhibition of paintings and drawings at Barron Arts Center, 582 Rahway Ave. In the show, which closes Friday, the 31-year-old artist is exhibiting a graphite drawing, "Cynthia and Christopher in Mime" and oil portraits, "Cynthia in Mime" and Cristopher in Mime." The subjects of his mime portraits are the 24-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Dern of 1069 Blandford Ave., Avenel. Mrs. Dern commissioned the portraits after seeing a portrait Hari had done of the world-famous French mime, Marcel Marceau. In his new "mime phase," the artist seeks to reveal what he describes as the "other human being." "You get a different feeling of the personality in mime," he explained. "It's as if I were painting sculpture in three dimension and capturing the same quality of color and form in one dimension on canvas." He applies the makeup to the models for this innovative approach to portraiture. Hari believes he is the only practitioner of mime portraiture. The artist also is showing two oil portraits and a graphite drawing of reowned Bulgarian pianist Alexis Weissenburg. The Weissenberg portraits were commissioned by Mrs. Dern for the C.C. Dern Collection. One of the paintings will be exhibited at the Bulgarian Embassey in Washington and then will go to the National Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hari also is exhibiting a lithograph of the late novelist Ernest Hemingway and two graphite drawings of the late Pablo Casals. |
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