Letting pain of Vietnam take shape

Letting pain of Vietnam take shape

(EXCERPT) By MARY LOUISE SCHUMACHER mschumacher@journalsentinel.com

Last Updated: Nov. 1, 2003

In his poem "Ashes of Soldiers," Walt Whitman contemplates the raging
psychological battles of soldiers who survive unspeakable war
experiences.

Ashes of Soldiers!

As I muse, retrospective, murmuring a chant in thought,

Lo! the war resumes - again to my sense your shapes,

And again the advance of armies . . .

While in the art world the term retrospective describes a substantial
exhibit of an artist's oeuvre, Whitman's use is equally apt in the
case of painter Ron Bitticks, whose retrospective exhibit is now on
view at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

The show, spanning about 30 years of work, lays open a haunting nar...

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