THE GUILFORDIAN
OCTOBER 8, 1 999
The Music Man plays on!!
By Mary-Lou Jenkins
STAFF WRITER
Jules splashes his way across
the canvas on his way to making
you smile. There is something
special about Jules that makes
you happy just to set eyes on him.
The background is pale
coral, reminder of sunny days and
happy times. The crimson square
of his block-shaped head bounces
off the coral color and his kelly
green eyes sparkle with excite
ment.
He has donned a jacket of
bright sea-blue and wears panta
loons in shades of royal blue and
sea green with spurts of ebony.
His hands hold drumsticks
that tap out the beat as the pa
rade wends its way through
town. Jules marches down a
nameless street merrily striking
his drum, gladdening hearts and
delighting children.
The color silkscreen (seri
graph) "Jules au Katanga" by
Karel Appel (Dutch b. 1921) il
luminates a study area on the
upper level of Hege Library, a
gift of Ruth and Ira Julian to the
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The
First Year
Center
would like
to extend
thanks to
Kate Gra
ham for
her excel
lent work
as a men
tor this
year.
Kate, an
important
member of
the First
Year Pro
gram, is a
junior
from
Bethel,
Maine.
Her men
tor group
thinks she is one special lady! As
one of her mentees expressed:
"Kate has been incredible.
Not only is she energetic and help-
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Myths will be dispelled.
Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in the Commons
Guilford Col
lege Art Gal
lery.
According
to "Artspeak,"
Appel was a
member of
both Assem
blage and
CoBrA. As
semb 1 a g e
"traces its ori
gin to Pablo
Picasso.. .in
collaboration
with Georges
Braque, he
created the
first assem
blage in 1913
with his
sheetmetal
'Guitar'."
CoBrA
was an associa
tion of Dutch
artists from
Amsterdam,
and the desig
nation came
from the cities
of
Copenhagen,
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Brussels, and Amsterdam. The
CoBrA style showed a penchant
for abstract primitive art with
violent brushwork and drench
ing colors.
"Artspeak" credits CoBrA
with being "part of the interna
tional postwar revolt against ce
rebral art" where geometric and
Concrete Art went out of fash
ion and Expressionism came in.
There was a celebration of
color and images that were sub
jective. What the artist was feel
ing became more important than
the reality of what he saw.
From "Jules" we know that
Appel was feeling light-hearted
and cheerful because the colors
are nothing less than brilliant
and the mood of the work blithe
and jovial.
The beauty, of course, of
looking at abstract art is that we
see what we wish to see. And
hear what we wish to hear?
Listen. Can you hear it?
The trumpets blare and the cym
bals clang and the fife sweetly
trills as the tuba sounds OOMM
PAPA, OOMM-PAPA.
The celebration begins.
Play on, little Jules. Play on!
Guilford, but is invaluable to me
as a. freshman. I feel really lucky
to have her as my mentor."
Thank you, Kate!
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ful during
our mentor
m eeting
but she
also has
really
made an
effort to ex
tend her
self as a
personal
friend as
well. She
has been
able to pro
vide a list
ing ear
and sound
advice to
me that
come natu
rally after
a couple
years ex
perience at
COURESTY Of THE FYC