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Show * Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 9-11,-2008 The Park Record A-14 CORE SAMPLES By Jay Meehan W I T H • Monet to Picasso I N T E G R I T Y LOWER DEER VALLEY wonderful 5 bedroom, 5 bath home " floor to octlbig stone fireplace and views of .Snow Park ilu runs. A well designed kitchen •Vith rich granite countenops and stainless •[ appliances,- luxurious main door master suite, ~ 4 guest bedrooms, a spacious family/game room, convenient molii floor office, warm hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, jetted spa and an easy walk to Solomcrc'j private swim and tennis dub. SI .987,000 ^jdntnhing 3 V a f f l ^ ^ N K t h plus loft/officc home, ap : throughout) ocp3wfUlld(aien with a ccaier island, upgraaca'nuseo put (Rii^i hardwop4fiL^atc flooring. Very bright & cheery with expansive views of ski J ~ - muntctuiKX, nriscape landscaping with spaciousflagstoneand [ VIEWS AND LOCATION Large custom home site in one of Park City's finest, upscale neighborhoods. Gentle, sloping .47 acre lot with sensational views of ski resorts and adjacent to hundreds of acres of open space. $999,500 ,»ifj»tt..j^ * : * : ; . DEER VALLEY DRIVE Fully furnished town home just steps to ski shuttle. 2 master suites with jetted baths, npproi. 1416 sq. ft. Well designed kitchen with granite counters, attractive tile and hardwoods throughout, sunny location just a short walk to mauytnscl restaurant^ andshops S579.500 4 W £ f c ' SCENIC RESORT & FAIRWAY VIEWS ftrfeef home for entertaining, Well deigned kitchen with granite counters and informal dining area that opens to a spacious family room, all overlooking a park like setting at the 16th ice of the Park Meadows Country Dub. Formal living room with a floor to ceiling stone fireplace, formal dining, three large guest suites with private sitting area. Generous master suite with unobstructed views of ski resorU, private south facing deck and a beautifully upgraded master bath that includes heated floors, jetted tub and ample use of travertine. Largv rear deck with jetted spa. $1385.000 S P A G N.CLL/E T fiMORE INF<L pKbhei435-647-8O96 w toll-free: 888.647-8096 ureutah.co Saddlevicw Office UCIlUcU 2200 p a r k A v e Buildi Real Estate Park Qty, Utah 84060 me in, and not too subtly at that, I'm unable to articulate the overpowering attraction it instantly held. There were these swirling, quite vivid colors that were both inviting and confrontational at the same time. It hinted at what airbrush would do 100 years later. All of a sudden, there was detail within the implied. Once again, surprise is the vehicle modernists used to describe their world, and they used it well. What a blessing to have the chance to roam among works produced by the giants of modernism as they built upon each succeeding artistic heresy. If you wish, telephone-like audio guides are available to lead you from one to the other, but that doesn't mean you cant shut them off and allow the art to speak to you in its own fashion. This stuff is oftentimes shocking and most always sticks to your ribs. Gauguin's use of over-the-top orange to color the hair of a mysterious nude entering the ocean completely dominates "In the Waves," for example. Is she going for a leisurely kk What 3 DleSSing tO have the swim or are darker „*,«««„ +« „ « * « « , « „ « .-,«-/,„ «*•« games afoot? No doubt about it, there is some pretty high cotton growing in some rather rarefied air down at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the campus of the University of Utah. A traveling exhibit entitled "Monet to Picasso" featuring many of the rock stars of the various European modernist schools of nineteenth and twentieth century painting is currently in residence and ours for the taking. You want Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism? Well, get on down and bend your mind a bit. Striking examples of each currently hang on friendly walls well within reach. Figuratively, that is! Please don't touch. It actually matters little whether you "speak" modern art or not. This exhibit has been fashioned in such a way that not only Monet and Picasso, but also Renoir, Degas, Modigliani, van Gogh, Gauguin, Dalf, and Matisse, and the rest, by presentation alone, have learned to speak your language. One heretical idea builds upon the last. Nothing exclusive here. The welcome mat is out. Everywhere you look, a masterwork. They flow out of the woodwork, as it were - Manet, Courbet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Bonnard, Magritte, Braque, and Ernst. The list goes on. Even sculpture by Rodin and Henry Moore add to the sense of those heady times when modernist Europe came of age. By the way, a caveat here: Do not drool on the Ce'zanne! A very pleasant uniformed security guard r r was forced to remove himself from his chair in order to remind me of that panicchance to roam among works pro- O r t h e b r i g h t d a y a n d ularrule. If I'm not mistak- dUCed by the QtantS Of modernism as multi-colored floral of en, another such individual performed a similar func- they built upon each succeeding tion when another touring ofTISHC exhibit stopped in San Diego back in the day. thisAdmittedly, thing about Ce'zanne, I do have but Renoir and Manet and Gauguin have also been known to bring about heavy breathing on my part. It must relate to color and light. To actually spend time in the company of such vigorous brushstrokes as, say, those involved in van Gogh's "Poplars at Saint-Remy," can bring on a swoon. They ought to make you wear a heart monitor. If you have a twinkle in your eye that lasts longer than four hours, please consult your physician. Even the fractured and reassembled cubism of Picasso and Braque have a - quite unintended to be sure - sensual quality. This is no doubt due to the passage of time. Everything, including abstract expressionism, nowadays rests comfortably upon most every artistic sensibility. As a way of protecting you from yourself, possibly, there are two-hour windows for which you must reserve access in order to partake of the exhibit. They begin with the 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. slot and, although my earlier lusting for the heart of modernism forced me to rush through the final exhibit rooms, it's easy to spend quality time with those works that reach out and grab you by the scruff of your perception. For example, there was this "nice little Renoir," as Pierce Brosnan put it in the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair." Other than to say it pulled arrangements Matisse's "Festival of Flowers, Nice." That would be the city on the French Riviera. The work is quite nice, also, however. Then there was the Salvador Dali surrealistic masterpiece that snagged and reeled me in from two rooms away. Again, even after logging away hundreds of prints in the museum of the mind, nothing prepares you for the stark dreamscapes his brushes bring forth. My father had little trouble interpreting this guy's work, however. After perusing my coffee-table book of Dali prints, he produced the following review. "This guy's sick!" Much that is significant within the cultural history of the past century has found a place of honor upon the walls of the Utah Museum of Fine Art this summer. It will be important for me to return for yet additional raptures but that isn't to say a single visit isn't life changing. This is truly, as local media have been proclaiming loud and long, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Take both hemispheres of your brain on down to the valley and stuff them full of wonder. Dust off your ability to marvel and take it out for a spin. Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and a free-lance writer with a background in commercial and community radio, among other pursuits. He has been a columnist and feature writer for various Park City publications going back to 1973. WANDERING THE WEST By Larry Warren invites you to. . . ENJOY THE BEST PRICED LUNCH ON MAIN STREET! Fridays and Saturdays from 11:30am including... 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IN THE CLUB Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs $2 Pizzas $5.99 Spaghetti night 1 / 2 price appetizers 1/2 price sandwiches $2 Pizzas 306 M A I N STREET, PARK CITY, UTAH j • ' - - - " - m ^ m ^ , NIGHTCLUB • (435) 649-5044 Mirror with a view I'm continually stunned by how little of this spec- here they seem to tacular state some Utahns see. I worked with a man be everywhere. in Salt Lake once who spent his entire two-week Look for trails vacation each year staying at Little America Hotel in that make loops downtown Salt Lake and ordering room service past several backwhile watching TV. Another worked in his backyard country lakes. garden for his vacation, although one year he asked You'll find you me how to get to Snowbird. He wondered if there have them to were any places open for lunch there in the summer yourselves for the because he was "thinking" about driving up there to afternoon. The fish are small at this elevation, but sec it after living in Utah more than 50 years! there are catchable rainbow and brook trout in most of Parkites are more adventurous for sure, but with them. But these are not swimming lakes unless you've mountains at our door, I keep running into people got polar-bear blood. who've never explored the Uintas - and they're a Those who dont want to hike can stop at a number half hour away. I remember leading a Scout hike to of lakes along side roads and Mirror Lake Highway Notch Peak once and was amused by how stunned itself. Trial and Washington are good drive-to lakes, one of the dads was by the scenery. He had no idea and each has lakeshore campgrounds. Of course the Utah had mountains like that - all he'd seen were magnet for the whole trip is Mirror Lake itself, just the ski slopes above town. past Bald Mountain Pass, which tops out at 10,647 feet. Granted, they're not the Himalayas, or even the There's a nice Forest Service campground at Mirror, Colorado Rockies, but the Uintas are grand moun- but in summer it has to be the most popular camping tains filled with tree-choked valleys and streams, destination in the state. Better reserve ahead there or rocky cliffs, green meadshow up midweek to snag ows and lakes - lots and - - - - - a lakeside spot. lots of lakes. All it takes is M In the Wasatch yOU WOn't find The country opens up a quick drive out of Kamas and the Uintas feel like a many lakesf but up here they seem ^ ^ J £ L ^ vacation from the Wasatch. to be everywhere. Look for trails that leys with the Bear River The Uintas are Utah's ' flowing down from the highest mountains, and the summit. There high peaks are enclosed in make lOODS past Several backCOUntP/ lakes on this side are andfewer not the High Uintas lakes." ^ as many great hiking Wilderness Area. Farther ^^^^^^^^^^^^^m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • • • • • » trails. cast is Kings Peak, Utah's Your options at this highest peak at 13,528 feet. The easiest access point point are to drive out to Evanston and come home on Ifrom Park City is also one of Utah's most scenic high80, or make a U-turn at Bear River Service (the forest ways: the Mirror Lake Highway that climbs from boundary) and double back. Kamas into the Wasatch-Cache National Forest and The Uintas were overlooked a generation ago, but ends in Evanston, Wyo. You'll need to stop at the visthey're a popular destination for the Wasatch Front itor booth and pay $3 for a day pass to visit. Back now. But all it takes is a quick walk down a trail to get when it was free, there wasn't enough money to keep away from people, and back to nature. the campgrounds, trails and toilets in good repair; the fees collected are now spent on improvements Free-lance writer Larry Warren has been wandering the right there and things are looking much better. West covering news stories for television and magazines Mirror Lake Highway parallels the Upper Provo since he landed in Utah in the mid-1970s. In this column River and the willow-lined stream banks are good he writes about the favorite places he goes back to when places to spot moose. Stop at the Upper Provo River he can. Falls to see the cascading water drop from one level to another. Make sure kids don't get too close, as the shoreline can be mossy and slippery. "THEVnALS: This is a great trip to introduce kids to more than Kamas to Evanston: 60 miles the falls. A good challenge for them is to point at , Web sites: www.bywoys.org, Bald Mountain and dare them to climb it. it It's an easy fe fed / 4 / www.fs.fed.us/r4/wcnF ' hike nearly anyone halfway fit can manage (our dog Insider tip; people die of exposure up here on with four-inch-long legs bounded to the 11,943 foot summer hikes. There's serious mountain, summit without slowing down). On top you've got a weather at this elevation, so carry a 360-degree sweep of the best of the Uintas, and that's small backpack with the essentials for when you'll see just how many lakes are out there. surviving a few nights. In the Wasatch you won't find many lakes, but up |