Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Stanlev Witmeyer Freida Rau Ralph Avery M ilton Bond Charles Horn Along Clements Sylvia Davis Ruth Gutfrucht Every now and then, on the campus of R.I.T., one catches a glimpse of a beast of burden making his un- sure way beneath a conglommeration of fishing-tackle, all-sized drawing pads, text books, T-square, and as- sorted regalia. Thafs an art student! But if his physi- cal pack is heavy, his intellectual and emotional pack is heavier yet. While quietly drowning in the whirlpool of a new school, new friends, and new attitudes, the freshman art student is further bewildered by the overwhelming assortment of ideas and principles in his chosen field. He still retains a half-hearted awe for Walt Disney, yet is tempted by the iconoclastic pronouncements of Dali, Mondrian, and company. His vocabulary is del- uged by the many ism's of the art world. Surrealism, Cubism, Realism arc all familiar words which suddenly take on life. He begins to know how to make things happen with charred wood and paper, and his blue- ringed eyes are miraculously open, drinking in the beauty behind which lie accurately stated principles of design. He begins to observe with new interest the Elizabeth Mesmer Jacqueline O'Connell Harold Richardson Fred Wells Seventeen

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Applied Art

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A wooden mode! takes f orm on a student’s hoard Students working with a live model people around him, trying to discover what it is that makes them what they are. The student of art starts to add a new dimension to his world understanding. This addition takes a life-time. The eyes of the student artist turn to other subjects as well. On the season's coldest day one may see him coldly engrossed in the fluid design of icicles. And no matter where he is, there goes his sketch book, the penciled memory for what his eyes see, A full sketch book brings with it a ruddy complexion (from expo- sure to the elements); smudges, and soft graphite (from exposure to a soft pencil). The artist bears other marks also: an oily green substance called plas- ticine dirties his fingernails, and his clothing takes on a spectacular rainbow of pigment stains. But, the most salient characteristic which endears him to his fellow students is his manner of dress—his once khaki fa- tigues, a remnant of a sweat shirt, and gaudy socks. But an art student must work for the knowing of how to say things in a picture. One comes to be chal- lenged by a failure, a dead-end in the search for the words, the skill to say what he wants. This is the way he pioneers into the field of art, which is as old as man himself. The simple, the conventional, and the abstract are all represented in this design class What once was only soft clay now begins to take the shape of a rase Eighteen