Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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Beginning arfisfs interpret music by making original a Miss Wilhelmina Marm, head of the art department, and her colleague, Miss Marion Dodderer, stand beside one of the two magnificent lions that guard the entrance to Chicago's Art Institute. It is difficult to estimate the service of the art department to the school. In any situation which demands the artistic approach, the Art Department is called upon for advice and assistance. It was a student of the Art Depart- ment Who designed the distinctive monogram for the choir members' stoles. As an American Education Week project, art students prepared a panel sensitively illustrating the theme Education for the Atomic Age. The scenery for school plays is prepared by Provisois artistsg their holiday decorations brighten the work-a-day atmosphere of the school. Surely, life at Proviso is greatly enriched by the innumerable services of the Art Department. bsfracfions 'X 43 Page 27

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ART. . . encouraging creative work K s 3 -.QSIEL V if ' ,. vffilkia s 1 ' wi l' is ' Zilivfi ' :i'faI.fE'7 p wr ,J 1' 33 .4 V ' W a ' ,,., Page 26 The generosity of nature around Proviso has truly been appreciated by its art students. They have watched the seasons-changes in expression on the face of the earth - bring their own particular loveliness to all of life. But besides enjoying such na- tural perfection, Proviso students may View exhibits of the greatest paintings of the world in Chicago's art galleries. A comprehensive study of all art expressions reveals the underlying principles for all forms, to be the same. The interaction of the laws of balance, repetition, and dominance and subordination explain why the appeal of the uMona Lisa and that of the, Taj Mahal are artistically equal,iwhy the Mexican basket weav- er is as much a creator of art as was Michelangelo. Music is used to encourage free emotional expression in art, thus sat- isfying the creative urge. But music also utilizes the artist. For Proviso concerts every year, artistic back- grounds are created by students of the .Art Department to illustrate par- ticular moments of intense feeling. Hand in hand, the arts lead forward to the cultivation of individuals more sensitively aware of the need for beauty and harmony in the world. Surely he who is artistically aware of life will have that inner peace of T mind from which international peace must spring. Art II students study an important painting by Seurat which belongs to the post- impressionistic group. The work of commercial art students helps to emphasize with art Education for the Atomic Age -slogan for American Educa- tion Week. Stagecraft students originate and build a miniature stage for the opera Hansel and Cretelf'

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Equations and geometric proofs offer a challenge to the alert mind Studying the geometric forms in nature are Mr. H. G. Monilaw, Mrs. Mabel Scheible, Mr. V. R. Kent, Miss Wilma Sims, Mr. W. A. Law, and Miss Margaret Sullivan. A study of the sextant in most pleasant surroundings is made by Mr. F. W. Baer, Miss Virginia Terhune, Mr. E. L. Joyner, Miss Lillian Arends, Miss Martha Hildebrandt, and Mr. U. C. Foster. Page 28