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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1954)
4 (Sac I) Statesman, smash Oraw fcunaoy, Spt At. XSin DO m f CX By CARL HALL! Oregon Art it" the State Fair presents to the viewer mixed! and varied panorama. Composed of work by professional and ama teur, young and old ; alike, it; caters to all tastes anq all ages. Naturally landscape and marine are the predominating themes. It is very obvious that the Ore son environment with its atmos pheric maeic. impresses both amateur and professional The viewer will notice hew the amateur or conservative pro fessional strive for accuracy in the presentation of their motif. We can recognize different lo cales, bridges, etc- The empna- sis is on the more obvious or common view point. Technic for the most part is simple an , di rerL ;. ' ' ..p : i i; In the second floor 1 gallery, just above and to the' left of the stsirx are hung the work bv the professional modern. This work : offers a striking contrast to the conservative work located on the first floor. Here the feeling about nature is more important then an exact transcription .of it i The artist is more subjective (personal emotion reaction to his - world) tending towards an ab stract (simplified, abbreviated), 'a more personal viewpoint that must satisfy the artist before the audience. - The conservative all too often thinks of i the audience , first. hence he paints only what is ex pected or demanded from ' his "uninformed" audience. The mod-1 m seeks to communicate some thing new in the way of esthetic experience that is not, at; yet, common property: the ' conserva tive is content witn the worm as ; he finds it and unfortunately he j looks at the world with the eyes j and skills of the 19th century j and not the 20th. i Under Viewooint i The work of the "modern" artist demands a great deal more on the part of the viewer since what is presented is both strange and different in purpose and con V. struction. In the work or tne , conservative we are ; asked to identify the scene, object; etc. In the modern we are called upon t oidentify the emotion, the ef fect that the scene, object, or Inst rnlnr and design itself, has on the artist's feelings and his thinkine. Since the modern is attempting to see and feel some- j thintf nw h nuts a new emphasis ! on color and structual design problems. The conservative; pays a lot of attention to the recogniz able surface, its color, texture of the objects or 'scenes he is working with, but he seldom says anything new. The modern quite i often adjusts these qualities of surface, color, texture, to the! emotional drive of ,hia experience, j and hopes thereby to , discover something new. The modern's (work seems strange because he is striving to see the world, his experiences in that world, in :a' new light, under a new understanding wnicn entails distortion, magnification, new symbolism in; order to ex - press ita full intensity.-; 1 r. Dallas Dateline r New Teachers Welcomed by Civic Groups V Rt K. NOHBERG ' I nrKnT hav hfn extended to teacher of the Dallas school jsys- i tern by local civic groups. un i Tiiav the new teachers were i guests of Rotary club at the regu lar luncheon meeting. &upennien-i Aant s K Whitworth introduced ! the teachers to the Rotarianl. Fri day all of the teachers were in vited as euests to attend ine Ch a mKpr tit Commerce luncheon. Activities for various lodges are being resumed after a recess for the summer. Naomi chapter wo. 22, Order of Eastern Star, will join will Adah chapter of Independence v for a covered dish dinner Septem ber 14. announces Mrs. Clark i learner, worthv matron, Dalore Temple, Pythian Sisters, held its fust meeting of the new season September 9. Mrs. C. W. Smith is most excellent chief of the Dalore croup. Mr. and Mrs. A." R. Cadle re turned last week from their sum mer home at Ootsa Lake. British : Columbia, where they spent the past two months. Just . as many Willamette Valley folks, they ex- . perienced a very unsummery sum- - mer. . i LvacheM la Albany Eleven, civic and county leaders were guesta Friday of Pacific Power and Light company at a luncheon in-Albany. : The gather ing was called in order to ac- ' quaint a group of eastern finan cial people with the resources and industrial possibilities of the re gion; f 7 The group, accompanied by R. G. McFarland, local PPiL mana ger, included Mayor Hollis Smith. Representative Frank Farmer, Falls City Mayor Vernon Murphy, Judge C. F. Hayes, Commissioner Gay RempeL Commissioner C. L. Eur bank. Earle Richardson, Wes Sherman. Jack Greenwood, Henry , Dalpez and Bin canon. Chadwick Chapter, Order of I Eastern Star will hold its first fall meeting Tuesday night at the ! - Masonic Temple at 8 DJB. With Mrs. E. T. Armstrong and Thom as W. Kelly, wortiv catrca tad natron, presiding. 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