Physical education U.S. art
Prof sculpts human figures
By RUE CHAGOLL
"I began painting burial tombs in Okinawa during my spare time."
That's how Dr. Gene Logan, professor of physical education on leave from Southwest Missouri State College and now studying for a masters degree in sculpture at KU, began his study of art.
"I bought a little paint kit to take to Okinawa with me when I was in the Navy hospital corps during World War II," Logan said.
"THESE HISTORIC tombs were very interesting," he said, because the dead were buried in large urns, shaped like human figures."
"Since there was no means for photographing them, I thought they would make a good subject for my paintings."
For his masters degree, Logan is working on a series of fantasy type human figures, some of pigmy size and others reaching seven or eight feet in height. Each is formed from pieces of sheet steel molded and welded together.
The smaller figures, painted green, have a Martian-like appearance, but the larger ones have been coated with a substance causing them to rust evenly, yielding a bronze color.
THESE SCULPTURES, along with other works by Logan, will be displayed in a graduate student art show in the Kansas Union, April 10.
None of Logan's fantasy sculptures is of normal height, he said, in order that they will produce a special effect on the viewer who walks among them.
He is a part-time instructor in the physical education department, teaching adapted physical education for the handicapped and the study of human movement.
Logan said he has found that art and physical education are related in many spects. The study of anatomy, human form and movement have aided him in both fields, he said.
Last weekend in Las Vegas, Nev., he was inducted into the American Academy of Physical Education. Membership in this society is limited to 100 persons, although there are approximately 50,000 people in the U.S. who work in this field. Vacancies in the academy occur only by the death of a member.
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LARGER THAN LIFE BUT "PRODUCES SPECIAL EFFECT"
Author, painter, sculptor and physical education instructor views his art.
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