Dakota State University - Trojan Yearbook (Madison, SD)

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Schnell Makes Cruclflx For Ramona Church The startlingly different crucifix that graces St. Williams Catholic Church at Ramona, S.D. is the Work of Dan Schnell, a senior, art major at General Beadle. Last summer, Father Kenneth Kusein of St. Wil- liams parish asked Dan if he could contrive a crucifix that would suggest, more than the traditional por- trayal of Christ, a feeling of Christ's sacrifice to complement the altar of the church. Dan began his task in August at home in Ramona, working with Father Kusein to develop the desired effect. Shaping his plans gradually, Dan brought his work to college with him and with suggestions from mem- bers of the Department of Industrial and Fine Arts at Cieneral Beadle State College, he completed his wor . The 4' X 6' cross, much more substantial than the traditional and more realistic cross, is an ultramarine i I blue. The Christ figure of white porcelain clay stands out in stark contrast. To symbolize the misery and anguish of Christ's sacrifice, Schnell portrays a dead Christ, bowed and broken on the cross. The elongation and distortion of the body was done to emphasize suffering, rather than the more heroic portrayal of the traditional Wiry, muscular physique. The face shows actual deathg sunken and limp. Christ's hair and thorny crown are askew, evidence of the misery and suffering he endured. The arms, usually shown in straight horizontal position, have become more oblique in Schnell's por- trayal, emphasizing the lifeless body really hanging from the cross. The hands, pierced, have fingers that curl in cruel futility. The sag of the lower body again stresses death. All physical resistance is gone, the sacrifice com- plete.

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Monochromatic Design Barbara Hagen ' X val Cut Paper Design Nancy Nelson