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' 6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, November 2, 1989 UNC artist extracts meaning from confusion wwm n ST4 if IP (c3) ' V o Ik Where therms good food and good times, it's only Natural. Natural Light from Anheuser-busch. Now in longnecks to go. T XT i mm orcn BEER By HEATHER SMITH Staff Writer With the stroke of a paintbrush, fierce colors collide on a canvas, expressing Robert Barnard's view of the confu sion and contradictions in the world. "It's all about confusion," said Bar nard, a UNC professor of art whose works now are being exhibited in Hanes Art Center. "We've got so much going on that we can barely handle every thing we know about; never mind what we're trying to find out about." Barnard, who is originally from England, is no stranger to confusion, having spent six years' war service in the British Royal Engineers during World War II. He views teaching art as a way to express a positive attitude. "I'd been so scorched by being in volved in six years of destruction, that I was determined when I got out that I would do something I considered to be positive," he said. Barnard decided to visit the United States because he was tired of the bu reaucracy in England and impressed with the rations he had seen American soldiers get during the war. At first he intended to stay only for a few years, but his plans changed in 1960 when he accepted a job at UNC as an art teacher. Barnard now teaches painting classes and a class for students wanting to be art teachers. "(Coming to UNC) was one of the best things I've ever done, and I should've done it before," he said. But when he's not in the classroom, Barnard is usually somewhere with a canvas and a paintbrush. "If I'm not teaching, or in a meeting or being ill, I'm working in the studio." Painting requires a great deal of time, as well as the patience to make the modifications that are necessary for quality work. "It's very slow work," Barnard said. "You're trying to think or not to think. You get feedback from what you're putting onto the canvas. You have to modify what you're thinking and doing all the time." Although a beginning student must search for ideas of what and how to paint, eventually the process becomes intuitive and personal. "When you've been painting for years and years, you've gone through all the possibili ties ... portrait painting, still life, surre alism, minimalism, all the 'isms.' You gradually develop your own way of working." One of the main subjects of Barnard's work is today's technological revolu tion. "(Technology) is affecting the world. We're able to do things much faster in the way of communication and exploration, as well as gaining infor mation," he said. The ability to deal with the new information in a moral way is increas ingly difficult, Barnard said. The ramifications of the technologi cal world are expressed in his Hanes Art Center exhibit, "Deus Ex Mach ina." Some of the paintings in the ex hibit date back to the x70s. Barnard will retire in December, making this exhibit possibly his last as a professor. The show will run through Nov. 10. si J t 1 v l !' 1 : I 4 J 4 I ; f r . V ; Mill in V A I ' ' ! ' II i 111 iVtd i I 4 f I I in t S J x ' - fx-?- DTHDavid Surowiecki Robert Barnard stands beside an example of his work now on display in Hanes Art Center Barnard has had 13 previous solo exhibitions, including one in the Jef frey Neale Gallery in New York City in 1986 and one in the Andreas Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1987. He has also exhibited in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and the United King dom. Although his work is not a continu ous delight, Barnard describes it as satisfying and says it makes him feel he's doing something worthwhile. "It's just plain hard work. You have to stick with it on a regular basis if you're going to get anywhere." Lubovitch dance performance guarantees creativity By JESSICA YATES Assistant Arts and Features Editor and VICKI HYMAN Staff Writer Lar Lubovitch's dancers speak a language everyone can understand: the language of passion. "Dance is an obsession," said com pany founder and choreographer Lubo vitch. "Everything I do in life has to do with dancing. My dances are dictated by a very strong passion. It is a passion for existence, for improving existence, for pointing out the highest manifesta- Check out OMNIBUS insert!!! VdDlLILIEYIBAILIL 7:30 PM FRIDAY UNC vs. CLEMSON 7:30 PM SATURDAY UNC vs. GEORGIA TECH 12:00 NOON SUNDAY UNC vs. PENN STATE CARMICHAEL AUDITORIUM All interested students are cordially invited to an information session hosted by the Corporate Finance and M&A Department of Members New York Stock Exchange Largest Independent Investment Bank in the Southeast Wednesday November 8, 1989 7-9 p.m. Carolina Inn Ballroom C tion of humanity. I want to provoke something positive." The 21 -year-old New York-based company, which tours extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia, is renowned for its originality and uncon ventionally. Lubovitch attributes his inventive ness to his exposure to many different styles of choreography at the beginning of his career. "I had very eclectic train ing. I never danced in any big company and I always saw great choreography from a distance, watching in the audi ence, so I was never indoctrinated into a style," Lubovitch said. "A lot of my choreography is based on the way I move." After training at Juilliard, Lubovitch began to work on his own company and create "an original dance language." "I decided to glean from my child hood a time of self-discovery, when the movement was untainted. I always danced as a child, and I had a lot of movement vocabulary without know ing it," he said. His goal is to reach his audience emotionally and physically. "I want to evoke the highest emotions in people, not the lowest. I hope it moves people physically in their seats at a perform ance, that they become involved, that it touches them kinesthetically." John Dayger, rehearsal director and 17-year veteran dancer in the company, described Lubov itch ' s choreography as constantly evolving. "It's always de veloping," he said. "It's changing as we speak. It goes through stages ... If you CROOK'S P ill? CORNER DINNER EVERY NIGHT & SUNDAY BRUNCH M P 610 W. FRANKLIN ST. 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Usually the highlight of every show, the dance features dancers breaking into a jog, tiptoeing around their partners and sailing across the floor in an anchored step-hop with feet flexed. Lubovitch's creativity extends be yond his company. In addition to win ning awards and grants from such foun dations as the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Coun cil on Arts, Lubovitch was nominated, for a Tony Award for his choreography, for the Stephen SondheimJames Lap ine musical "Into the Woods." In 1988, the New York City Ballet premiered its first dance commissioned from Lar Lubovitch. His "Rhapsody in Blue," to the music of George Gershr win, was featured on the opening night of New York City Ballet's American Music Festival. The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company will perform at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall as part of the Carolina Union's 1989 1990 Performing Arts Series. 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