European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday Brush with abstracts in Wiesbaden a Ijar artists mrs. Charles Woodford sometimes paints with humor. Mrs. W. E. Marshall look close and you la see female form in her pineapple. Abstract Art is More personal. It s a form reduced to its simplest is photos by Ted Rohde r Tymako Ann Reese staff writer absolutely fantastic a if any people paint these Davs Murii William Frankfurter an a top a Wiesbaden Germany wives painting class. Y it s a marvelous Hobby. Tometti Lonyou can always lose yourself in " g every year hundreds of military wives throughout up the Brush and palette ions of Hobby artists whose elude such notables As the Winston Churchill former Wesin Dwight p. Eisenhower and offs pne Hobby Painter who made Good Pilate grandma Moses. 6 Ine mrs. Frankfurter s students in of Evaden Are a Little different from other military wife artists thai Fialty la abstract painting. We Don t allow copy work in classes said mrs. Joseph Stiles who organized the class. The main ideas original creative thinking and paint during a recent showing of their work several students from Wiesbaden told what painting Means to them. Clark Jeffries who has five sons including three in College. Took up painting six years neighbor and i decided to take an Art course. I enjoyed it so much decided to keep it up. Even if you never become an artist taking such a course helps you appreciate other Art and of course nature and the world about us i be always been interested in Art Bat never Felt i had any Talent. I still May not but i sure enjoy it. Also i think husbands Are proud i their wives paint. They sometimes Are More critical than you like though knowing you can create something Means an awful mrs. Stiles Mother of two boys Orie Robert 8, also paints oils and this Spring took first and second in Theus Jefe arts and crafts show oils i. Vision paints every night from 9 sometimes 3 i be gone through realism to abstract. Abstract is much harder to do than it looks. That s the secret. Tomake your abstract look simple when it s finished. People look at abstract Art and say that s easy. Anyone can do it. Well it s simply not True. When i was doing realistic paintings my family thought they were great. No that i m doing. Abstractions they think i be lost my marbles. But when my children get older maybe it will Dawn on them that their mom in t an old Fuddy Duddy. Mbs.-.0. W. E. Marshall Mother Ozone daughter has been painting my year. The always been inhere Winit since i can remember. But Ivy want to take time from my family Dubij. My daughter got in High school. � family is very kind on my work a like my realistic tilings and they Ujj appreciate my abstracts u n 1111 to out what i m trying to do. Nannt anyone can learn 1 f in off them. It does t Appe Alto a lot of Mem. Us Ash � pie. They Don t understand an like abstracts. Everyone sees because of past environment. No � people tee the same Way. Seeing 1personal experience and abstracts a More personal Art. Mrs. Charles Woodford Mujer of five children All of whom j has been dabbling in the ail new can remember Irit Sharr instructor in William Frankfurter left discusses abstract by or Joseph Stiles. Mrs. Clark think All husbands Are proud if their wives of pm i think everybody should less. The smell of turpentine �.--sick. That s what happens o in band so i paint n the attic jew room. It s a Good Hobby Ana y a. Fulfs new
