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Deeply influenced by Rico Lebrun, Vester however differs radically from her teacher. She has inherited his interest in dimensional anatomy but such considerations are nullified by her own tendency to see in flat shapes and textures. Imagine a Lebrun figure arbitrarily cut from its paper so the figure becomes unclear. This shape, now independent, is mounted on paper and worked in polymer or soft collage material. The effect is softer, more comfortable, and design-like. It adapts itself well to such works as her illustrations for poems by Quasimodo in which the handsomeness of the page is more important than the specific illustrative material. Lebrun was an extremely powerful personality. We guess that Georgia Vester is still in process of sorting hers out from his.

William Wilson

Hans Holbein, the Younger. “Portrait of a Young Woman with a White Coif,” oil and tempera on panel, 4⅜" dia., 1514. Batch Bequest, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The painting is in thepermanent collection of the Museum, which will open its new buildings to the public early in April 1965.
Hans Holbein, the Younger. “Portrait of a Young Woman with a White Coif,” oil and tempera on panel, 4⅜" dia., 1514. Batch Bequest, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The painting is in thepermanent collection of the Museum, which will open its new buildings to the public early in April 1965.
February 1965
VOL. 3, NO. 5
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