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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Page 4 Painting Or Sculpture? I i Doesn 9t Rea lly Ma tier POLAR ZERO Robert Hunter, a unique artist who is in Chapel Hill on leave from Clemson University this year on a Ford Foundation grant, displays an epoxy paint and plexiglas painting-sculpture entitled "Polar Zero." Hunt er told DTH Art Reviewer Owen Lewis that he is "trying to say something that is mean ingful today." anta Is Thin And Sporty On South American Visits BUENOS AIRES (UPI) into a delicious cereal mixture Santa wears short sleeves when called "La Patria de Bolivar" he ventures into South Ameri- which is served on Christmas ca, but in spite of the reversed morning, and the corn, freshly seasons and a heavy religious ground, is mixed with pork, emphasis on the holidays, Christmas is a gay and cheer ful affair. It is a time for families to gather, to pray and to reflect on life, but also a time for "fiestas," fast music, gift-giving and for tasty, sometimes spicy holiday foods. In Argentina, Chile, and Bo livia, as with many other Cath olic countries, Christmas begins with a Christmas Eve midnight mass. In Argentina after mass the families return home to small pine trees decorated with . paper ornaments and, in the European tradition, a big late dinner and gift-exchange. . Argentines love to eat, and Christmas is the best day of all: turkey, chicken, nuts and a special Christmas bread are friust , items Often the meat hishes iar6 ' prepared -outdoors I in gaucha4tasada!4 style, and are preceeded by a series of creamy cold salad dishes. For drinks there are champagne, wines, and in the poorer homes, , a less-exnensive bubbly drink called sidra. Emphasis in Uruguay and Argentina falls not just on Christmas but the "twelve days." Children re-enact pas sion plays and shoot fireworks throughout the period and in Uruguay they play a game called "Burning Judas," in which a crude puppet is made to represent Christ's betrayer and is burned on a stake. The wealthier Uruguayan and Ar gentine families head for the beaches during the holidays, especially to the resort cities of Mar del Plata, in Argentina, and Punta del Este, Uruguay. CARVED FIGURES Across the Andes Mountains in Chile, carved and porcelain figures of "nino Jesus'' (the Christ child) are used in store windows and homes as decora tions alongside images of "Pa pa Noel," as Santa Clause is known here. Pine trees and homes are strung with colored lights sev eral days before Christmas and on Christmas Eve Chileans be gin visiting their neighbors and their favorite shopkeepers, bringing gifts and tasting Christmas sweets and meats. Peruvian children use fire works and their parents use champagne to celebrate the birth of Christ. Holding to Spanish traditior, they hold midnight masses and suppers, but the modern influence is evident, especially in Lima: Santa, gift exchanges between family and friends and gay dec orations. Hot chocolate and fruit cake are sweets of the season. In Venezuela, corn, wheat and dolls are the elements of Christmas festivity. Wheat goes beef, chicken and a thick sauce Christmas In Other Lands to make a difficult dinner dish, "hallaca." The dolls are carved to re semble the baby Jesus, and are placed beside the beds of chil dren in "Nochebuena," the 24th of December. When the chil dren awaken Christmas day, they find gifts brought by the baby Jesus. Bolivians love to sing and so to them Christmas is a time for gay, spirited music as well as the traditional Christmas songs. Streets are adorned with religious symbols and the day centers around a mass, family gatherings and an elaborate dinner with seven different kinds of meats. Brazilians, especially in the large coastal cities, go to the beaches for Christmas, a day dedicated to children. Meals in clude wine, nuts, cakes and a special dish called feijoada, rice and thickly sauced black beans cooked slowly with dried meats. In the northeast, Christ mas meals are spicy fish dishes, tasty but hot as the December sun. The father of the family tra ditionally give gifts on Christ mas day to his children, but women of the country have successfully altered the tradi tion. Now they get gifts from their husbands as well. And Santa Clause is known in Brazil, but not as the jolly old fat man. Like most Brazil ians she is usually, short and rather thin, and not known for jovialness. Who could be jolly with all those clothes during a Brazilian Christmas? "No sculptor calls them sculpture, and no painter calls them paintings,'' said Robert Hunter of his works which I call sculpture and he calls painting. Hunter works in the round and in relief. "It makes no difference except in the psy chology of viewing," he said. Hunter has a five - foot relief of construction board with an abstrict black and white draw ing superimposed on it in the current Art on Paper exhibit at the Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC at Greensboro through Dec. 16. "I am trying to say some thing that is meaningful to day, but it will not be under stood today," Hunter said. "Young adults seem most re sponsive to my work. They are not so conditioned but that they can respond to new ideas and new images." Hunter, 37, is a native of Washington state, and holds BS and MA degrees from the University of Oregon. He is working here this academic year through a Ford Founda tion grant in the UNC-Duke Cooperative Program in the Humanities. The first painter to get such a grant, he has no teaching duties, but works all day, six days a week, football games included in a studio in a World War II surplus shack called New East annex. Hunter is on leave from Clemson University, where he has been teaching in the school of architecture for 10 years. Mainly Hunter works in Plexiglas, polyester resin, Fib erglas, epoxy or polymer media. "Plexiglass lets you see Art World By OWEN LEWIS through," he said, "for a multi leveled view." The idea of the space-time continuum is pretty basic to Hunter's approach. "Time is a man-conceived concept. Man's view, not time itself changes. Our particular view of the uni verse has changed, not the uni verse itself," he said. "I have tried not to pick out specific objects from nature, but I pick out the essence, the feeling of the things. Three is a basic combination sea animal, plant form, land ani mal, interchanged and inter mixed. The idea I've been try ing to capture is that the ob ject doesn't exist without everything else not being the object. Mine is an imagery which is so nebulous it is dif ficult to grasp. This is a view artists haven't token before. They are either concerned with the object or its background, but not in between," he said. "I think that everything I do becomes extremely primi tive in one sense. One is im mediately taken by illusory, tactile connotations. It almost becomes magical. I keep feel ing that many of these are like cave paintings, the tribes man's creating a statement about his life," he said. Hunter is trying to develop "paintings that can be used indoors or out, and he is con cerned with the use of light and with mysticism. When I visited his studio he was work ing on a big bird shape, seven feet long by five feet high, and a big fish shape, eight feet long by 26 inches high. ; "I call them environmental relief paintings," he said. "The relief is not for form's sake alone, but for the illusion of form." "Life has little or no signifi cance to me except when I'm doing these things. I'm frantic when I'm not working. I have missionary zeal. I feel they are something. I'm a believer when I'm doing. When' I'm not doing, I'm neutral. "I speak of life, not of social events or involvement that most of the artists today speak of. I am not by plan or inten tion individualistic. I just don't fit into any school," he said. TKT THINK-- ONLY IB SHOPPING PAYS KTIL CHRISTMAS , CHARLIE BROWN r n nr " " " GRAHAM MEMORIAL GMRISTL1AS DEGORATIHG PARTY SUNDAY DEC. 4 2-6 P.M. EVERYONE INVITED GM BUILDING Buddhists Observe Singapore Yuletide SINGAPORE (UPI)-Singa-poreans this year will be cele brating their brightest Christ mas in three years free from the shadow of Indonesia's con frontation. The entire city will go on holiday although the estimated 60,000 Christians form only about 3 per cent of the multi racial population of 2 million which is 75 per cent Chinese. This 224.5 square-mile f ormer British colony celebrates Christmas in much the same way as other countries. Church services will be held, and the city will resound with Christ mas carols. To the people of various races here, Christmas is anoth er religious celebration and a national holiday. The non Christians will join in exchang ing Christmas greetings. They will throng gaily - decorated night clubs and take part in Christmas carols. CHRISTIAN OBSERVANCE The Christians, dressed in their best, will attend church services, midnight Masses and go caroling into the late hours. In their homes, scores of Christmas cards will be array ed around colorfully lit Christ mas trees. Members of the Common wealth armed forces will ob serve the occasion in their tra ditional way. They and their families will attend services in small churches near military establishments and gather at parties. For a few weeks before and after Christmas the spirit of good will will prevail. Depart ment stores and other shops will be packed with Christmas shopDers. 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