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University Daily Kansan, September 24, 1982
Mexican pictures depict two views
By MATT BARTEL Staff Reporter
People who enjoy photography will have a chance to take a good look at differing views of another culture starting this Sunday at Spencer Art, the curator of photography said Wednesday.
"Photographs of Mexico," an exhibition of 50 photographs depicting the people, landscapes and culture of Mexico, will be shown for six weeks in the White Gallery, said Thomas Southall, assistant professor of Art History and curator of photography for the museum.
Southall said the photographs were the work of two noted photographers, American Paul Strand and Mexican Alvarrez Bravo.
THE STRAND PRINTS were taken in the early 1930s while Strand was working for a Mexican agency whose purpose was to promote social awareness and political change, said Douderouf, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese who helped organize the exhibit.
He said the predominant mood of Strand's work was somber, depicting the nature of the war. The scene was set in the middle of a field.
"They represent an outsider's view of Mexico." Southall said. "They're a direct,
straightforward approach . . . photographs as
photographs, not as imitations of paintings."
stany of the portraits of Mexican people were taken with an angle-finder, a device that enabled Strand to take a photograph while pointing his camera in another direction, an approach that Southall said was valuable in getting truly candid shots.
In 1894, Strand's commission expired and he returned to the United States with his prints and made "The Wave," a film about Mexico that will be shown at Spencer in October, Dordoff said.
By contrast, Southhall said, the Alvarez Bravo prints represented a deeper, more complex approach.
"He had a better awareness of the different people and cultures that make up Mexico," he said. "There's also less glorification of the subjects than the Strand prints."
ALVAREZ BRAVO SOUGHT to use his photographs as art, Southall said, playing off themes such as love and death, and creating a richer imagery.
Southall said the show was timely because of the regional conference on Latin American studies would be held here in October.
"It's just a rare opportunity to come see photographs by two prominent 20th-century photographers," Southall said.
Thomas Southall, curator of photography at Spencer Museum of Art, and Betsy Wright, graduate student in art history, hang a
print for "Photographs of Mexico," an exhibit that opens Sunday at Spencer.
Area artists exhibit art in Plaza Fair
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
Art fans will have the opportunity to see everything from carrot paintings by the award-winning "Carrot Man" and miniature ceramic diners, to traditional water color paintings and art works by two Lawrence residents this weekend at the Plaza Fine Arts
The 51st Plaza Fine Arts Fair will be open from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, from noon to 10 p.m. tomorrow and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The fair will be in a different location from last year's show, Katherine Hickerson and Tuesday of April and Tuesday of
ALTHOUGH THE SHOW will have only two more exhibitions than it did last year, it has been moved to the 400 and 500 blocks of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania Street to provide more room for the show.
"We are hoping to have more space," she said.
"It is one of the perks of having a successful
The wider blocks at the opposite end of the Country Club Plaza will make it easier for the estimated crowd of 90,000 to see the exhibits, Rickbone said.
Two of the exhibit booths will be occupied by Lawrence artists.
Ron Hinton, KU alumnus, will exhibit metal designs at the Plaza show for the third year.
ANOTHER LAWRENCE RESIDENT will exhibit at the Plaza Fair.
His show, titled "Metal Forms and Images," will consist of jewelry, enameled forms, and photo etching—a method of etching images into metal.
Robert Zerwekh, associate dean of the School of Engineering, will exhibit still life oil paintings. Zerwekh said that he had been painting since 1980 and is now working in the Upper Center and Ward Parkway Shopping Center.
Plaza show. I enjoyed it. It's special because it is one of the oldest art shows in the country," he said.
Hinton said that he enjoyed it, too.
"It's a good opportunity to exhibit work in the Kansas City area," Hinton said. "There are not a lot of galleries in Lawrence that show my kind of work. There is a festival atmosphere. It is a lot of
THE FAIR PROVIDES a chance for the artists to make money, too.
"This is the second time I've exhibited at the
"I usually come home from the fair with many commissions for Christmas." Hinton said.
Rickbone said that she could not estimate how much money artists made at the show because the organizers of the fair did not keep records, but that they must sell enough because artists from all over the country submitted their works to the fair.
"They expect to do well and that's why they come so far," she said.
Also, all of the commissions are not realized the day of the fair, she said.
"Many artists will get commissions from the show. When someone picks up your card at a show you never know where it might lead five to seven months later," Rickbone said.
UNLIKE MANY ART SHOWS, the Plaza show does not take a percentage of the artist's sales, she said. First, an artist pays a $10 nonrefundable entrance fee. If he is selected to buy an exhibit, he must pay exhibitor's fee of $75 and is required by law to pay Missouri sales tax on sales.
The two Lawrence artists will be part of the show comprising works from 145 artists exhibiting ceramics, fibers and watercolors. Not all of the works are serious, however, Rickbone
"There will be a lot of humor in some of the works," she said, "but it all goes back to basic geometry and geometric shapes — squares, rectangles and parallelogram."
One of the paintings in the show is of floating toast, she said.
The Plaza art fair is a jury show, Rickbone said. Exhibitors for the art show are selected by a panel of four judges, she said.
To enter the show, each artist submitted six slides. Five of them were examples of the artist's works and the other was a plan for the both that will be set up at the fair.
There is not a quota for local artists, Rickbone said.
"The jury sees the slides without knowing whether the artist is female or male; black, Oriental or Caucasian; local or from out of town," she said.
THIS YEAR, 600 artists came from 27 states, including Oregon, Florida and New Mexico, to compete for space to exhibit at the Plaza Fair, Rickbone said.
The content of the shows changes every year, Rickbone said.
"Each year's exhibits are predicated by the elder the lury receives." she said.
There are no plans to expand the show, Rickbone said.
Rocky said,
"If anything it will probably become smaller," she said. "We're not after numbers. We want quality."
There will be much more to do at the fair besides view exhibits, Rickbone said.
The UMKC Conservatory of Music will provide madrigal singers and jazz and opera music.
The Miller-Marley Entertainers, a group of singers and dancers from ages 6-23, will perform half-hour shows including classical and Broadway show numbers.
way show numbers.
The combination of art, music, dancing and the Plaza location make the show attractive to visitors and exhibitors alike.
"Word of mouth is the best advertising."
Rickhone said
Children's play stresses aging
This time, Dorothy knows she is not in Kansas.
Kansas does not have Rock People and Wheelers, creatures with wheels for hands
Such creatures are what Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry encounter in the play "Gmaw of Oz: A Tale of Time." The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will perform the children's play at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the University Theatre.
"The play deals with a young person's perception of time, older people and the so-called generation gap," Jed Davis, professor of sociology and director of the series, said Wednesday.
"In this version of the Oz story, Uncle Henry is old and crippled. The plot deals with Dorothy coming to grips with her feelings about him and seeing his worth as a person."
Children have a different view of anybody over 30 years old, Davis said. Old age is an indifference.
Robert McGraw, Hutchinson freshman who plays Uncle Henry, said the production was "one of the best I've ever seen."
Playing a 72-year-old was very difficult, he
said, because he was in a wheelchair all of the time.
Susan Zeder, professional playwright,
adapted the story from a novel in Lyman
She has subtitled the play "A Tale of Time"; because the passage of time is the central theme.
While Dorothy and her uncle are temporarily separated, a fish leaps into Dorothy's hand and deposits a magic key, Davis says. The key was delivered to Dorothy by a person of a mechanical man named Tic Toe.
He said that when Dorothy began to turn the dials on Tic Toc, days and nights passed quicky and Time, held in suspense for many years in Oz, started again.
The script takes on much deeper dimensions than the simple fantasy adventure story for younger children with which most people are familiar, Davis said. The spirit of adventure is still present, but Dorothy still has to cope with a series of strange characters and occurrences as she tries to find a way back to Kansas and a return to her normal life.
This is the first time the Theatre for Young People has produced the O2 story.
TODAY
On campus
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Summertown Room of the Kansas Union.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at 8:30 p.m. in
Lindley Hall, if the sky is clear.
MENAHME PRESSLER, Beauux Arts Trio pianist, will have master classes, open to the public for observation, at 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. at Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
SUNDAY
PRAYER will be at 10 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministers Center.
SUPPER will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Eugene Christian Ministries Center.
CENTENNIAL KANSAS RIVER REGATTA will be at 1 p.m. at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets.
FRISBEE CONTEST will be at 1 p.m. at South Park.
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