The Daily Tar HeelThursday, March 24, 19885
Celebrating splendor of Tar Heel landscapes
By FRANCES ALLEN
Staff Writer
On an acrylic canvas, fishermen
are pictured leaning over the rail
of a dock while their fishing poles
seem suspended in air. But if you
follow the lines as they flow down
from the dock, they disappear
underneath the light green waters
of a lake. Presumedly, baited
fishing hooks lie submerged in the
waters, just waiting for that one
naive, unsuspecting fish. The blue
of the sky and the green of the
trees around this scene seem to
intermix, creating a setting in
which trees and sky are'
inseparable.
A few paintings down from that
one, a desolated farmhouse sits
engulfed in trees, so much so that
the brown of the trees and the
farmhouse are intertwined. And
they, like the sky and trees of the
first painting, become inseparable.
would you believe that such
acrylic canvas paintings hang not
on the walls of some fancy art
gallery in New York or Boston but
are displayed right here, in the
Student Union gallery?
And would you also believe that
such paintings depict the beauty
of our own North Carolina
landscapes?
Well, believe it. These paintings,
are part of a display that cele
brates the splendor of N.C.
landscapes.
The exhibit is in conjunction
with women's Awareness Week
and features UNC-Creensboro art
instructor Suzy Andron, who says,
"Painting is the most exciting,
frightening and compelling thing
i have done in my life."
When her paintings fail to reach
her ideal, she says, that is when
her work as an artist becomes
frightening.
Although not a native of North
Carolina, Andron has lived in North
Carolina for 1 0 years and finds that
North Carolina as well as its land
scapes holds a special appeal for
her.
"We live in one of the prettiest
states in the United States." she
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says, basing her judgment on her
extensive travels across the
country.
"There is an intimate quality
about North Carolina, which is
reflected in its rural landscapes,"
she says, adding that N.C lands
capes seem to have everything,
from mountains to the Piedmont
to the coast.
"N.C. landscapes have a human
scale," she says. "People are small
and the landscapes are such that
we relate to them, we feel a part
of them. They don't overwhelm
us with awe."
Although places such as the
Grand Canyon or Yosemite
National Park are beautiful, they
instill only majesty, she says. They,
unlike N.C. landscapes, do not
combine majesty and friendliness.
The blending of majesty and
friendliness not only applies to
North Carolina's landscapes but to
its rural structures as well. There
fore, in most of Andron's paintings,
landscapes are accompanied with
humble structures - barns,
tobacco sheds and farmhouses.
"They are buildings that don't
overcome people," Andron says.
Each landscape painting, with or
without a tobacco shed or barn
or farmhouse, follows an impres
sionistic mode and romantic style.
"They draw upon reality and the
artist's eye." Andron says, "in each
painting, l try to capture the soul
essential of the place because
everything has a soul. Even inan
imate objects have souls because
they have atoms."
The colors in her paintings,
which are often an infusion of blue
and green, purple and yellow, red
and orange or blue and gray, are
what Andron calls her reinterper
tation of the landscapes.
"There is a quality about each
individual landscape, and I portray
that with color," she says.
When people see her paintings,
she says. "I hope that they enjoy
the color and that the paintings
will give them a reason when they
are driving down the highway to
say. 'Gee, I hope they never tear
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down that tobacco shed.' "
And Andron's hopes to preserve
rural landscapes parallels the mes
sage she wants her audiences to
receive from her paintings "that
we will never get so universalized
in the use of our land that we will
eradicate our rural heritage."
But she would also like her
audiences to realize that her
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"When you hear about great
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