Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Art is a discipline whose rules were established centuries ago, an occupation that needs no further definition. Its media are paint, stone, and a few other materials similarly sub- ject to adverse changeg its terms are visual imagesg and its orienta- tion is toward the specific and the tangible. Art is not immortal. Artists try to immortalize paint or design or beauty. But canvasses will even- tually rotg statues will crumble. All that men can do in their art is to bear witness, in terms commonly understandable, to their ideal: to their own idea of beauty, to their own faith. Such testimony was the divine purpose of the masters of Ancient Greece and the Renais- sance. In order to attain mastery, an artist must have the perception of a scientistg the freedom, precision, and absoluteness of a surgeong a disposition inclined rather to sym- pathy than to bitternessg and a faith that inspires his accomplish- ments and contains the failures of both himself and his culture. xx. -X Left: Art Club president Jeff Wolfe views one of the movies which highlighted Art Club meetings. Middle left: Susie Davis models for art students. Bottom left: Chris Harte, Lora Lampson and John Richardson study Whetstone art. Below: Lora Lampson regards Jon F1-ost's self portrait. .- gl 3 fri 'ri A'

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With a tranquil mind I abandon the written and spoken word And find deep contentment in the joy of illumination. Liu Tsung-Yuan jf' Before modelling, Dave Hatchett works air bubbles out of clay. N45- ' q-11-1 As checker, John Richardson is responsible for clean-up. 5 Mr. Teichert's chief means of instruction is critique. ,113 -4 Richard Teichert

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Music is love in Search of cz word. Sidney Lanier 1' It is music which ascends upon us and drunkens momentarily the soul, but molds the intellect to a higher degree of perception. The composer creates the structure and form, often injecting moments of insight to his imaginary world of sound. He seeks to capture his atti- tudes on life in the musical media. Free to create this attitude, the composer explores deep beneath the crust of thought and reason and delves to the soul and the heart of man. The performer grasps with mind and soul the structure and form created by the composer. Exploring the rise and fall ofthe melodious lines undulat- ing in sound and emotion, the per- former gives the structure and form excitement, depth, and fire. Together, the sensitivity of the performer uniting itself with that of the composer gives substance to rare emotional beauty. Such a manner of emotional involve- ment can never again be produced. Each note, phrase, nuance will change in depth and understanding. But some- thing will remain with the audience and the performer. Perhaps there will be a better understanding of the imagination of music and what secret lies beneath the modulating tones. Why man creates and interprets his world in music is unanswerable. Per- haps it is that some of us find words inadequate in expressing pure emo- tional attitudes.