Art Exhibit

Art Exhibit

The art exhibit was in the Gordon Hightower Library. The exhibit was on Thursday, April 10, 2002 and lasted all day long and is still going on. There were not many paintings, but the two main painters were Marlin Adams and R. Defamore. Adams painted portraits of fruit and people. Defamore painted a series of paintings that were all similar but very different and dark such as "The Victim- Talking Hand and Screaming Heads" and "The Hero-To Tell Or Not To Tell".

Deafmore's paintings appear to all be etchings, which is a very hard technique. The technique is like that of Kathe Kollwitz's etching "March of the Weavers", from the "Weavers cycle." The paintings that Defamore painted were The Imposter- Things Aren't Always As They Appear", "The Victim- Talking Hand and Screaming Heads" and "The Hero-To Tell Or Not To Tell." The figures in these paintings are almost an exact replica of Erich Heckel's "Two Men at a table (To Dostoyevsky)." They are all dark looking males with suits and weird looks on their faces. The Imposter painting has a deformed man with wrinkled fingers and an old man in a painting behind him. The colors are mostly black and white and some hints of colors here and there. There is lots of emotion and anger. There are also characters at each of the bottom corners, which are starring at each other. The Hero painting has a man with his mouth tied up and a pendulum hanging from his neck and two spears pointed at his chest. The situation is inescapable and there is a man that is behind him and is trying to hear the man's noises.

Marlin Adams pictures are basic and don't really shoe any emotion or movement. I do not like pictures of normal people or vegetables because it is dull and boring. One of his paintings is of a white girl maybe 10 to 12 years old with no nature background. She has long hair and a burgundy dress on. The painting is from the chest and up and shows some light shadowing. Another on of Adams painting is of a bowl with two yellow onions, one red onion, and one piece of garlic. The bowl is on a table and the picture itself is somewhat small.

I really like seeing fellow student's art because it makes me feel that if they can do it so can I. The etchings were by far some of the coolest paintings I have seen. I like almost