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Narum also works in Sculpey, a plastic modeling compound.
Jon Eric Narum, Lawrence artist, works on a brooch made of Sculpey, a plastic modeling compound. Many of his creations are small busts with big noses and distorted features.
He also received artistic influence at home and gives music in Houston.
"What really appealed to me was his ability to paint magnificent skies, and that was a direct influence." Narum said.
"Owls landing on the backs of
chairs and guys riding wailers are
not particularly everyday occur-
ment he said. "They're definitely
surreal."
The other half of the label, luminism, is a term that describes a group of mid- to late 19th century American landscape painters who concerned themselves with light and its luminous effects in the atmosphere.
Lawrence 'surrealuminist' mixes his artistic mediums
"Definitely, my parents' love of art was a strong, strong influence on me."
He became obsessed with it about three years ago, creating pieces such as brooches and busts in exotically mixed colors.
Picture someone riding a walrus along the Continental Divide. Or, how about George Washington on the island of Hawaii through a field of hippopotamuses.
These are actually two works of art by self-labeled 'surrealumann' Jon Eckert.
"That's a term I made up," he said. "Labels are inevitable in art, although I don't think they're always good. But to describe someone's work, you want to think of a word that's applicable."
His mother was a painter and sculptor.
One of Narum's favorite painters is Frederick Edwin Church, a luminist
Part of Narum's surrealcalmism applies to his sky paintings and his painting
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Narum's eclectic artistic endeavors also include "mental landscapes," vibrantly colored oil paintings with swirling shapes, forms and colors from his subconscious. But because his mental landscapes and Sculpeul creations did not look like what a "Narum" should, he found it
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And therein lay a problem.
"Most of those were skies, " he said. "But I wanted to do portraiture as well."
He also has taught oil-painting classes there.
"People responded favorably to the Nerumskis but couldn't understand how someone could do these mental landscapes and the more intricate landscapes and surreal portraiture." he said.
He said other artists sometimes had modes of expression that varied wildly from what people expected from them.
He introduced Sculpey to the arts center and teaches classes in it.
"I take the class for the social interaction and as a motivation to paint," he said. "Jon has definitely influenced my style."
easier to use a pseudonym, Juan Diego Nerumsi.
“One of the largest drawbacks of living off my art was the fact that I would spend an entire day in front of it. I want some interaction with people.”
That is why he does not mind teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center. Ninth and Vermont streets, and many of them are in Mercantile Co-On, 200 Maine St.
The name was derived from a Polish neighbor of Narum's in Texas. The name is not likely related to the city.
"I work slowly and am not extremely prolific." Narum said. "I would agree on a price for a commissioned portrait, and by the time I finished, it would end up being worth three times as much. It got so I
As with his paintings and sculptures, Narum tries to create out-of-theordinary situations while working at the co-op.
"It simplified things if I used a different name for these works and people would say 'Oh, that's a Neru-ismn and that is a Narum.'"
One student, David Piper, a Lawrence artist, has taken the oil painting class four times.
Narum's goal is to earn a living by selling his art once again, but not by doing commission work, which he did for seven years.
couldn't afford to do portraits, but I was also getting tired of painting skies.
"In my interactions with people, I try to make it an interesting experience," he said. "I may blurt out a lot of things, but I just feel like the right thing to say."
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