University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 6, 1976
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Lanyon's paintings a blend of animate and inanimate
By BILLCALVERT
Staff Writer
Giant ferrets crawling out of a chimney, an alligator reclining under a chair and a case full of awas all characterize the blend of wild animals and subjects in the paintings of Ellen Layon.
Lanyon, a painter and printmaker from Chicago, gave a lecture and slide show about her artwork yesterday afternoon in addition to a crowd of about 150 people.
Lanyon said that before 1968, she painted conventional depictions of people. When she developed an allergy to oil paints that year, she said, she switched to acrylics and watercolors as her mediums and decided to change subjects as well.
"I began to deal with objects of the realistic but inanimate world," she said.
THE INSPIRATION for much of her work comes from the pictures, photographs, paintings, drawings, and videos she said. The slide show consisted of her paintings and the pictures that inspired them.
"I like to construct fantasy from a variety of shapes," she said.
Some of the paintings she has done using the theme of exaggeration include giant forks standing on end next to a glass and a ladder, then mid-air preparing to quarter a giant gear.
AFTER HER "exagregation" period, Lanyon began to include animals in fantasy paintings. That idea stemmed in part from magic acts she had seen in which the magician made animals appear from boxes or bowls, she said.
LANYON SAID the combination of objects and animals in the paintings reflected the fact that she grew up in the city and had no contact with nature until her early 28s. The climax of her contact with nature, she said, came when she was commissioned in the S. Department of the Interior to do some art museum in Florida for the Bicentennial.
"I went into the everglades and saw a landscape like I had never experienced before. Because I grew up in Chicago, I had a fear of nature," she said.
Her fear of nature still persists, Lanyon said, but the contact with the everglades would have a devastating effect.
Events
TODAY: THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE UNIONS-International will meet today in the Kansas Union. The SUA library will open at 4 p.m., in the Union hall.
TONIGHT: ANGEL FLIGHT, the women's auxiliary to AFROTC, will meet at 6:30 in the Military Science Building. The BLACK BUSINESS COUNCIL will meet at 7 in the International Room of the Union. The KU SCIENCE FICTION CLUB will meet at 7 in the Governor's Room of the Union. The KU NAVIGATORS CLUB will meet at 7:30 in the Forum. THE NAVIGATORS CLUB will meet at 8:30 in the Regionalist Room of the Union. The KU SKY DIVING CLUB will meet at 9 in the International Room of the Union.
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