Art Exhibit

Art Exhibit

The art exhibit was in the Gordon Hightower Library. The exhibit was on Thursday, April 10, 2002 and lasted all day long and is still going on. There were not many paintings, but the two main painters were Marlin Adams and R. Defamore. Adams painted portraits of fruit and people. Defamore painted a series of paintings that were all similar but very different and dark such as "The Victim- Talking Hand and Screaming Heads" and "The Hero-To Tell Or Not To Tell".

Deafmore's paintings appear to all be etchings, which is a very hard technique. The technique is like that of Kathe Kollwitz's etching "March of the Weavers", from the "Weavers cycle." The paintings that Defamore painted were The Imposter- Things Aren't Always As They Appear", "The Victim- Talking Hand and Screaming Heads" and "The Hero-To Tell Or Not To Tell." The figures in these paintings are almost an exact replica of Erich Heckel's "Two Men at a table (To Dostoyevsky)." They are all dark looking males with suits and weird looks on their faces. The Imposter painting has a deformed man with wrinkled fingers and an old man in a painting behind him. The colors are mostly black and white and some hints of colors here and there. There is lots of emotion and anger. There are also characters at each of the bottom corners, which are starring at each other. The Hero painting has a man with his mouth tied up and a pendulum hanging from his neck and two spears pointed at his chest. The situation is inescapable and there is a