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Show 8 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, September 30, 2004 Art of the Russian master Yuri P. Kugach now on display at Springville Art Museum Rarely are we able to see the art of one of the "Hundred "Hun-dred Honored Artists of Russia," and a rarer still to see an entire retrospective exhibition of such a master's mas-ter's work. Citizens can do that now at the Springville Museum of Art. An exhibition of the works of Yuri P. Kugach, 65 paintings dating from 1947 to 2002 is now on display. dis-play. The public will love his very personal and beautiful paintings of "Mother Russia." Rus-sia." Yuri Petrovich has specialized in genre pictures pic-tures depicting scenes of Russian country life. As much as any other Eainter of his time, Kugach as lovingly revealed the people of his country as timeless icons of humanity. He is also a landscape painter of lively color, beautifully pitched light and nuanced detail. Yuri P. Kugach is one of the most significant artists of Working Class Impressionist Impres-sionist period of Soviet Socialist So-cialist Realism. He was born in Suzdal in 1917, and studied at the Moscow Art Institute from 1936 to 1942. Then as a post-graduate from 1942 to the end of the War. His important exhibitions include "AU-Union Art Exhibition" Ex-hibition" in Moscow. He was shown in the "Soviet Russia" exhibition in Moscow in 1960. He was awarded the Stalin Stal-in Prize in 1950 and was elected to be a Soviet academician acade-mician in 1975. His wife, son Mikhail and grandson were also significant signifi-cant artists. Why doctors choose Mountain View Hospital imnmmwmimMmMnmmimmmiym Hm--sHll i i J f w - ;.y:--f 'jjfj, ftfti "1 hww the quality oj care at f , 't -jj I ' 'Mountain Vim Hospital is my f J I Mountain Vfcw Hospitii b I' " ? I hvpital $ duve becasst U combines ::'5S I w- f.J;?;C?S excellent. That jacl is underscored gif ' siate-iif-ihc-ari techuAugi with i i1". 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The same question could be asked of William Adolphe Bouguereau, who, though more respected in his lifetime, life-time, lived the life that Rockwell Rock-well might have had if he'd been born French in the early ear-ly 19th century. Rockwell and Bouguereau are the focus of a new, monthlong exhibit at the Your, PHYSICIAN independent "in-de-'pen-dent adj. 1. not dependent: as 1) not subject to control by others, self-governing 2) not affiliated with a larger controlling unit 3) showing a desire for freedom an independent manner WAsw's Nov Giknalc DictwmHv Choose a health, plan that will allow your doctor to choose mountain vlew hospital Altius .Health Plans Pl:f tP Summit Care Molina Healthcare CIGNA Healthcare of Utah Regence BlueCross BlueShield of litah ValueCare First HealthCCN PHCS DMBA EMIA ' . 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Also featured are 30 additional original works by artists who were contemporaries of Rockwell or Bouguereau, including Renoir, Leon Lhermitte, Jules Breton, Camille Alfred independent View V Pabst, Julien Dupre and Max-field Max-field Parrish. The works in the exhibit are not on loan from other museums, as is often the case with paintings or sketches by artists of note. Museum director Vern Swanson said the entire exhibit consists of items borrowed from private collectors many of who are anonymous living in Utah. "These are works that you're not going to see unless un-less you're friends of the people peo-ple who own them," Swan-son Swan-son said. One of those people is Di- Care Bears J C IRlrrpR" Book, as part of Wal- v-4 Mart.s Babv Davs pro 'J "firsts" with the help of the Care Bears! This year, the Care Bears will be the exclusive theme at Wal-Mart's Baby Days program, pro-gram, which allows parents to experience the entire Baby Department. The "Create a Care Bears Memory Book" will kick off this two-week event which will provide parents and children chil-dren specially designed leaflets with helpful hints on ways to create special memory books to last a lifetime. Admission is free. Then, the following week, October 9, everyone can visit vis-it Wal-Mart to take the Journey to Joke-a-Lot. The event is in celebration of the release of the Care Bears' first CGI feature film, "Journey to Joke-a-Lot," that will be available avail-able on DVD and VHS on October 5. Participants make their way through the store's aisles to pick up all of the pieces to a limited edition Care Bears jigsaw puzzle. Funshine, Tenderheart and other costumed characters will be handing children Care Bears stickers as they enter en-ter the store to help direct them through this Care Bears fantasy land and pick up pieces to a limited edition Care Bears jigsaw puzzle. As they explore the aisles, children will be given clues to make their way through a multkh j partment journey! . ane Stewart, also the curator of "From Bouguereau to Norman Nor-man Rockwell." Stewart contributed con-tributed three of the Bouguereaus featured in the show. She said people who begin collecting art typically find that they've entered a rather small community. "You tend to know who collects," col-lects," she said, adding that all of the Rockwells in the exhibit ex-hibit came from a single Utah County collection. Stewart said she's a "huge fan" of Bouguereau and that the concept of the show was created in discussing the Frenchman's critical legacy with Swanson, who suggested suggest-ed a natural linkage to Rockwell. Rock-well. The parallels between Bouguereau and Rockwell are striking, Swanson said. One is the "most hated and loved" artist of the 19th century, cen-tury, the other was equally vilified and cherished a century cen-tury later. "Both were artists for the people," Swanson said, "not uic tu i caiauiLMiiiicin. s Robert Barrett, associate . dean of Brigham Young Uni versity s College ot rine Arts and Communications, said both Bouguereau and Rockwell Rock-well placed a great deal of importance on forming a connection with the audience for their work. "Rockwell said that if a week went by when he didn't did-n't get a letter from a fan, then he felt that he had failed," Barrett said. The sentimental current in both men's work has caused them to be lightly regarded, especially as much of the art world has shifted its focus to the modernism of painters like Jackson Pollock. As Swanson sees it, the value of their art is in its correlation cor-relation to the period in. which they lived and worked. "Norman Rockwell painted the great issues of his day," Swanson said. "He painted .--r!;:-" 1U: It- 4 I K3 tr J'an&x s I si This demonstration shows how power can bum as power arcs from standard city lines to a dummy placed on a trailer. The demonstration demonstra-tion was part of Springville Power's open house last Sat at Wal-Mart On Saturday, Oct. 2, parents will have the T opportunity to create a keepsake, Create a motion. Celebrate your baby's the Cold War, the space race, i racial integration." Stewart said the sympathy j and admiration of both artists for everyday folk Bouguereau's gypsies and! French peasants and Rock-i well's middle-class Ameri-i cans is what makes their work endure. 1 ' "All of these paintings pro-'. duce such emotion," Stewart i said. "I think that anyone; who comes to see them will ; be touched." As often happens with j artists in any medium, the tendency to dismiss "the I work of Bouguereau and' Rockwell is turning. "A ktfof ; critics are looking back 'at ! Rockwell and saying'l won-1 der if we underestimated ; what he was all about,"" Bar-! rett said. "The same kind of ; thing has happened with Bouguereau." Is there a Norman Rock- well or William Bouguereau at work in the artistic com-,. munity today? Barrett said that art is going in a loLof different : directions - right! now, any of which might produce a lightly regarded, artist who eventually comes ! back into favor. , It's possible that the next great realist will be a student i or child who walks through I the SMA this month. Swanson Swan-son said he expects a significant signifi-cant portion of the exhibit's , visitors to be art students. "People will come to study it," said Swanson, "because! it's the kind of art that people will study forever." J As Swanson sees it, the; exhibit; is a rare opportunity to enjoy; masterpiece level! art firsthand. "If you only go ! to one art show in 2004," he said, "go to this one." The exhibit runs through October 24 with admission of $4 for adults; $3 per peeron for groups of 10 or more; $2 students and children; and ages six and younger admitted admit-ted free. Call 489-2727 for information. in-formation. i" Is- . titl i i f It & f , ; -j. vS Wfc - yam-1 ...-' |