Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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ON THE TERRACE? Actually It ' s on the wall outside the art room in the basement of Galle- Johnson Hall. The Art Appreciation classes combined efforts to recreate this 7 ' by 9 ' version of the 1879 painting. (Photo by Don Shrubshell)

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The project was real in- teresting because you didn ' t know what it would be. -Kevin Clark, freshman It was an enlightening ex- perience. Interestingly, it taught me a little about myself. -Charlotte Neely, freshman It was kind of hard to get the enlarged square to look exactly like the small one that we had to reproduce. It was something new and different to try. -Debbie Call Offtfiewall art students learn by doing by- Joan Renek g his semester one of the most unusual projects of the Department of Art appears on the wall in the hallway of the lower level of Galle- Johnson Hall. Piece by piece it began to take shape, from ceiling to floor. Brilliant colors appeared next to muted shades. It slowly became a portrait of a woman and child. Doug Hunter, art instructor, ex- plained the media used. Some of the students used crayons, colored pencils, tempra and acrylic paints, he said. It is a reproduction of an old masterpiece, Renoir ' s ' On The Terrace. ' Renoir was an artisl of the French Impressionist period. He studied in Paris during the mid-1860s and pain- ted portraits and murals. He is well- known for his pastoral backgrounds and life-like portraiture. Renoir numbered among his acquaintances Monet, Degas, Pizzaro, and Monet, along with many other of the impressionistic painters. On the Terrace was painted in 1879. According to Elda Fezzi ' s book, Renoir, this was one of his series of society portraits ' which showed severe figure composition, though lightened by his use of wonderfully transparent color effects. It is 61 x 50 cm. in size and is part of the Lewis L. Coburn collection at the Chicago Art Institute. This (the reproduction) is a new project, done in conjunction with twol separate art appreciation classes, Hunter said. The original picture was cut into one inch squares. Each student was given a square to reproduce as he chose, Hunter ex- plained. The students didn ' t know what was going on until we began putting it together, he said. The scale used by the art classes was one square inch equals one square foot. The students didn ' t know what was going on until we began putting it up, he said. The size of the com- pleted art work is seven by nine square feet. The original copy of the painting is posted along side of the large reproduction done by the classes for comparison. The vivid colors of the painting have livened up the hallway andi provided an unusual learning ex-: perience for participating students. I figured it was part of a main pic- ture but didn ' t have any idea what it would be, said Mickey Holt. I mixed: tempra paints and used a large brush because my square didn ' t have much detail to it, he said. Everybody got a square, we didn ' t know what it was going to be, until we put it all together, said Debbie Call. I used crayons for my square. Mine looked like a part of a tree bran- ch or something, she said. This was an exercise in color theory. Both Connie Harper and I thought it would be an experience in putting together colors, and we had; just finished a unit on the color wheel, Hunter said. It ' s an ex- periment that could be used for all; ages of art students.

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U turning for political office by A Shriver family affair oven for Cowley student Jeff Shriver. years. ' challenging, ' according to Jeff. He The job of state representative is serves on the Ways and Means Com- Brian Howell H aving his dad involved in the state government means that freshman Jeff Shriver depends more on the rest of his family. I usually get more attention from my older brothers and sisters, having five in Ark City you can ' t help it. Born in 1963, the 21 -year old Shriver is a native Ark Citian who has lived here living all his life. He is the youngest of six children-three sisters and two brothers. He is a 1981 graduate of the Arkan- sas City High School in a class of over 250 students. At Cowley he is an engineering major enrolled in calculus and chemistry but he is on an art scholarship and takes several art classes. He lives at home in Arkansas City with his parents Jack and Carolyn Shriver who run and operate Shriver Tire and Oil. Jeff is the last of six children to at- tend Cowley County with the first beginning in 1971 . His parents haven ' t always lived in Arkansas City. In 1955, they moved here from Maryville, Mo., when the began running the Arkansas City Goodyear Station until 1971 . That was when his dad began direc- ting his time to politics. He sold the station and prepared for the 1974 elections. In 1974, Jack Shriver was defeated in the elections, only to win a victory in 1976 and accept the title of State Representative for the 79th District. Shriver has been in the State Legislature for eight consecutive STUDYING AWAY-Jeff Shriver takes time between political campaigning to study calculus. Shriver is an engineering major at Cowley who enjoys helping his dad win re-election as a State Represen- tative. (Photo by Mike Ennis) ►ttLJ