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Show Richard Von Wagoner Guest Speaker at Art Exhibit Sunday, May 2 One quarter of a century since the first Cedar City Spring Art Exhibit began was marked Sunday Sun-day at the formal opening. For the occasion over 200 art patrons visited the exhibit to study the creative works and hear Professor Profes-sor Richard L. Gunn deliver his illustrated lecture "Insight oft Seeing." Professor Gunn's lecture gave everyone a better understanding of art and the artist by acquainting acquaint-ing them with a visual vocabulary. vocabu-lary. "Art is a universal language lan-guage and we must become familiar fa-miliar with the artists' vocabulary vocabu-lary In order to understand and appreciate it," he said. "The elements we find in nature na-ture such as form, color, texture, etc., are the artist's vocabulary and ne must develop a Beiisilivi-ty Beiisilivi-ty toward them. In order to appreciate ap-preciate what the artist is trying to convey the layman must also develop an awareness toward the same elements," he continued. A large number of slides were shown by Professor Gunn, Illustrating Illus-trating the seven elements, line. size, shape, color, texture, value, and direction, used by an artist in expressing himself. Professor Gunn concluded by urging the group to become more aware by closer observation of the elements around us. "Become "Be-come sensitive to seeing and feeling," he said, "tune your eye to see forms. Forms are more important im-portant than detail. Look for interesting in-teresting qualities. Qualities of color can be exciting. Develop a close intimate feeling for color." He re-emphasizel, "Open your eyes to the world around you." The special program for next week, Sunday, May 2, will be given gi-ven by Professor Richard Van Wagoner, assistant professor of Art, Weber State College, who will demonstrate water color tochnlques. Professor Van Wagoner has two entries in the exhibit and the Utah and western environment is manifest in his work. Except for four years, he has always lived in Utah. He received all his formal for-mal schooling In Utah, Bachelor's Bache-lor's degree from the University of Utah and Master's degree from Utah State University. Although most of his work Is of a traditional, realistic nature, associated with the culture and locations of the descendents of the Mormon Pioneers, he Is always al-ways experimenting and has won several awards with abstract and semi-abstract paintings. He feels that the door should always be open for change and that experimentation experi-mentation is healthy. But he also feels that an artist should build a strong foundation and save and apply those findings so per sonal and individual to the artist. ar-tist. Doors open at 2 p. m. Sunday for viewing the works and the progra.r. v. Ill begin at 4 p. m. |