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Thursday, April 20,1978
University Daily Kansan
Show features profs art
Bv SARAH ILES
Reviewer
It isn't unusual that the 7E7 Gallery is exhibiting the works of two KU professors.
What is unusual is that only one of those two is a fine arts instructor. The other is an associate professor of mechanical engineering.
employees as instructors instructor, Vernon Brejcha,
is an assistant professor of design in charge
of the architecture department.
*the gossip showdown* The second instructor is Robert Zerwekh
The second instructor is Robert Zerwekk.
Zerwekk said that he had been painting trume-loeil (French for "fool the oil") still lives since 1971, finishing perhaps a dozen works a year, which vary from four by six inches to two by three feet square.
He said he had been surrounded by art from an early age—both his mother and grandmother are artists. The only art class he has taken, however, was an art history survey course he attended several years ago.
SOME REMARKABLY professional paintings have emerged from Zerwek's hobby. Tromped'ei the style of painting pursued by Vermeer in the 17th century and more recently by the photo-realists. He requires painstaking reproduction of reality and obliteration of any sign of the artist's hand. It is a style that involves scrutiny and criticism, challenging the visual art form that espouses the glorious illusion of his master hide his brushstrokes as carefully as he imitates the glaze on a crystal goblet.
IF ANYTHING stands in the way of Zerwek's success, it is in his melodrama, which is too strong in a few of the paintings. This fault, fortunately, is more apparent in his earlier works, such as "Portrait of M," a portrait of his wife holding a skull in front of a candle-lit mirror, than it is in his recent work.
Zerwek is skilled in this style. His surfaces are smooth and the objects in his paintwork—he is fond of fruit, eggs, books and skulls—are believable, although the space is a little shallow. He has a fine sense of color and composition.
Zerweik's best painting is "Homage to Ida." Ida is his grandmother who paints. A watch, a ribbon, a magnifying glass, a postage stamp and a photograph of Ida herself are painted against a velvety maroon background. The lettering on the
Performance by quartet called sellout
Sunday's performance of the Amadeus String Quartet has been declared a sellout by Raymond Stuhl, professor emeritus of performance.
Only a few student tickets remain, and virtually all of the general admission tickets are gone.
The Amadeus String Quartet will appear in concert at 3:30 p.m. in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets, if you wish, can be general admission and $3 student admission.
Stuh, coordinator for the University of Kansas Chamber Music Series, said this was the biggest sellout in the history of the Chamber and Concert Series performances
"As far as adult tickets go, I think we could have sold the half twice," he said.
The University Theatre has a seating capacity of 1,188.
Stuhl said the quartet was one of the most famous ones in the world. The group organized in London 30 years ago and has never changed its personnel.
A waiting list has been started at the box office in Murphy Hall so people wanting to purchase tickets may obtain them as they are returned through cancellations or returned tickets.
KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: UNIVERSITY COUNCIL meets at 3:30 in 108 Blake. A SPANISH HONORS BANQUET will be at 6 in the Centennial Room of the Kansas University. SUA BRIDGE will meet at 6:30 in Partors A and B of the Union. The GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL will meet at 7 in Kansas Room of the University. HIELLET meets at 8 in the Union. Bettenhoff meets at 9 in the DENT RECITAL at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall. The KU BALLOONING ASSOCIATION will meet at 8:15 in Cork 2 of the Union.
TOMORROS: BLACK STUDENT CAREER DAY lasts all day in the Union. SOCIAL WORK DAY lasts all day in the Union's Woodruff Auditorium. The University is now open from noon to 9 in Learned Hall, Roger Urich, professor at Western Michigan University, will speak about "The Control of Human Behavior: A Change in Perspective," at 2:30 in 209 Haworth, in a VISTING SCHOLAR DANCE CLUB meets at 7:30 in 7 on the Union's Parsons and B. The KUFK DANCE Club meets at 7:30 at Potter Pavilion.
Correction
The Kansas incorrectly reported in a front page story yesterday that Doug Messer, assistant athletic director, had requested a change in the student seating area at basketball games. Messer had requested that the student seating area at football games.
KANSAN Review
stamp, although only one-sixteenth of an inch high, is clear. The objects are interlocked in harmony that rests in every inch of the acre, and leads the eave from object to object.
BRECHA IS showing hand-blown glass vases, wall hangings and small sculptures. The vases, which are about seven to twelve inches high, all are variations of a ginger-jar shape. Brecha said that it was typical for him to use one shape constantly until he was tired of it. He has used the ginger-jar shape for about one year.
The pieces in this show, although extremely well-made, are not equal in quality to those Brejchači we made, but rather the pauple-welike in his work, in many cases were muddy and lacked the brilliance glass is capable of displaying. The greens were silly and some of the purples were too dark.
Vase #30 is made of translucent glass sparked with pyric reds and oranges. Although it is of the same basic ginger-jar shape, its size and proportion lend it a refinement and lightness some of the other vases lack.
Two pieces were worth particular notice, though.
BRECHA PLAYED a trick with piece #2, a ladie-like object of milky blue and white glass which he said was inspired by the water dippers used in his youth. To insure that the piece would be appreciated as art, and not used for mundane purposes,
Breech put a ridge in the bottom of the ladle's bowl. Water can enter the bowl but it won't sink.
The Breycha-Zerewek show should be an encouragement to part-time painters striving for the skill which Zerewek is obtaining, a reminder that good artists, such as Breycha, do not always turn out work on par with their skills.
WASHINGTON | UPDT The Senate voted yesterday overwhelmingly for a bill to encourage more competition among U.S. airlines by limiting the government's right to decide where and when they may fly and how much they may charge.
Senate votes to boost airline competition
The legislation, viewed as a step toward decertification of the airline industry, was introduced on 18 December.
Before passage, the Senate rejected two amendments that would have denied in-
deny any aid to pilots and others who might lose their jobs in the event of an airline bankruptcy. It also voted 48-43 against an amendment by Sen. Edward Zorsink, D-Neb, that would have given laid-off airline workers priority in hiring by other airlines.
come guarantees to pilots and other airline personnel who might be laid off as a result of tougher competition for routes and passengers.
By a vote of 85-7, the Senate killed an amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Uttah, to
WOMEN AND Spirituality
a workshop for reflecting and searching with other women
Dr. Mary Collins, Dept. of Religious Studies
Sunday Apr. 23 7-9 pm Smith Hall Aud.
Monday Apr. 24 United Ministries 1204 Oread
Sessions at 9:00 am, 10:45, 2:00 pm
4:30 Closing Celebration
6:7:30 pm Supper ($1.50) and Rosy's Bar & Grill
Sponsored by Campus Ministry Women
Open to KU community
Registration fees students $1^@$ other $SS^@$
(admit to KU and KU conference)
c 1977 Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wis.
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