Stark art seen with LSD
Before you is a vast windswept landscape.
There is a hill, a tree, and possibly a few clouds. The rest of the scene is mainly blank, leaving only the essential forms.
This is the psychedelic effect on many people using the controversial drug LSD, explained Gary Brown, Wichita graduate student in fine arts.
"LSD IS TO A GREAT extent a visual drug." Brown said. "Hallucinations usually occur with an intensification of color brightness. A person may, for example, see huge whirling paisley patterns on a white background."
It has an economical visual language, he said. It simplifies vision until nothing but the essential forms of objects can be perceived. All other superfluous details are eliminated.
One under the influence then tends to lose his ego, Brown said. He becomes a part of the world around him. He melts into the universe or into the ground.
universe of "Psychologists believe that LSD is able to strip the censorship enzymes of the brain." Brown said. "The individual is forced to see an object, digest it and thoroughly evaluate, accept or reject it as essential material for the painting."
NOT ONLY OBJECTS but ideas are subjected to this evaluation, he said. One is able to be more aware of himself with his prejudices and psychological blind spots stripped away.
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But LSD art on a large scale would be impossible, Brown said. It is by nature an esoteric art. Although there is a gain in intimacy there is a loss of communication. Only the individual can truly appreciate the meaning of his work.
"Consequently the images on canvas are more personal. The artist, through understanding himself more thoroughly, is able to paint something personally meaningful" he explained.
Brown said he would like to see more frank discussions of the drug.
"Most people hear only two sides to the issue. There are the views of the religious fanatics which make news and the views of narcotics commissions.
of harcous commendations "Many proponents of the drug claim it is harmless. This is not
Famed prof honored
A world renowned paleontologist and Summerfield professor of geology at KU, Raymond C. Moore, will celebrate his 75th birthday at a party hosted by the geology department staff at 7 p.m., Friday, in the Kansas Union Kansas Room.
Moore, professor emeritus, last year became the first American to receive the Prix Paul Fourmarier Award presented tri-annually by the Royal Academy of Belgium.
He was also the recipient of the Hayden Memorial Geology Medal awarded by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1956, and in 1959 the Sidney Powers Medal presented by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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students was created by former students, faculty, and friends commemorating his retirement in 1962, after 46 years of service to the university.
Since he retirement, he has volunteered his services to KU as editor of a 24-volume treatise on invertebrate paleontology.
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true even though there is no physiological damage to the brain and it is non-addictive.
"But the drug is for some people and definitely not for others," Brown said.
The possession of LSD in Kansas is illegal now.
"This may be a source of intrigue for thrill seekers," Brown said.
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"I doubt if the law will effectively lessen the number of takers of LSD." Brown added.
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