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Friday, August 31, 1979
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Colette Bangert
Landscapes inspire local artist
The motivation behind Colette Bangert's intricate paintings has been her obsession with trees, grass and the openness of the Kansas plains.
By TONI WOOD Staff Reporter
Bangert, 729 Illinois St., has been painting landscapes all her life. Her artwork is included in *12 collections* in the country and abroad, and in galleries from New York City to Canada.
One of her paintings, "Blue Winded-Out Leaves," will be featured on posters for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Mo. The posters may be $10 each and $25 for an autographed print.
The featured painting is a landscape, like all Bangert's work.
Bangest said her paintings began as areas of color, usually water-dried acrylic paint applied with a rag to a white background. The thin paint gives a watercolor effect.
THEN BANGERT goes through what she calls a "see and define process," that involves painting with black, strokes—some in loose and some straight—on top of the colors.
"The elements of my work are often repetitive, like leaves, trees, grass, fields and the days of the seasons," she said.
Together the tiny lines form an overall design and feeling. There is a certain satisfaction in walking closer to examine the lines, like examining a blade of grass,
Her work during the 1980s was much different from her more recent paintings. Her works featured themes with tiny black lines, the colors were murky and the work came across as dark
"I was totally inside myself, protecting myself," she said.
Dr. Nana Mahono, impassioned document on South Africa's controversial policy of Aparthid, photographed by the University of the country. Discussion will follow the film. Cosponsored by the KJ committee on South Africa.
"Sometimes I'm very surprised," she said. "There's no way to know quite what I'm getting
"The paintings come in series. They are a cluster of formal ideas that relate to each other. Each one is a study for the next one."
In 1957, Bangert graduated from the John Heron Art Institute in Indianapolis after completing five years of studio work. She was a faculty member at arts degree in 1964 from Boston University.
THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT during the late 1960s had an effect on her work, she said. Women artists had trouble knowing whether their work had not been
Bangert said she stayed in close contact with other regional artists and was an active member of the Kansas City Artist's Coalition and the Women's S cause for Art.
In this way, Bangert said, she has painted a "landlace" series of meadows scenes, a tree series, several paintings of grass and her impressions of wind.
"There's not much isolation any more,
unless you choose it," she said
then stepping back to see the whole painting, like taking in an entire meadow.
She said artists no longer had to be in New York to be close to the professionals
In the area, Bangert's work is being handled by two galleries: the 7 East 7 Gallery in Lawrence and the Lawrence Gallery in Kansas City. Mo.
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In a studio on the second floor of her house, Bangert works on her pieces every day.
"That's one of the things I learned at Herron Art Institute," she said, "Unless I mired, it gives me great joy.
"Sometimes, my work isn't going well, but I still do it. It's like being depressed — real growth comes from off-times."
Friday, Aug. 31
THE BIG FIX
1978
Thursday, Sept. 6
South Africa:
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acknowledged because they were women or because the work was not good.
"I tried to make my work as clear as I could," she said.
Colette works out the design, Jeff programs it and works out the design. She draws a dress in color or black and white. She many people had trouble distinguishing the computer art from her.
Dir. Lirw Milestone, with Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney JB, Boole Steele, Charles Bickford, Aaron Coplan's the short novel by John Steinbeck.
THE CONFORMIST
Her more recent paintings certainly look clearer, with fresher colors and stronger feelings projecting through the designs made with the black lines.
Hangert and her husband, Jef, began experimenting with computer art during the 1980s. Since moving to Lausanne in 1994, he has collaborated KU Companion center, where jef is supervisor of graphics.
Her paintings also will be on display through Sept. 16 with the regional summer invitational show at the Nelson Gallery Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo.
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