thursday, march 9, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 13
Art chairman paints hotly, blohby
By Jim Williams
Dan Howard has two big advantages when it comes to
getting his paintings exhibited in Lincoln.
For one, he's the chairman of UNL's art department.
For another, he has a distinctive painting style, often
complemented by interesting subjects.
Howard's paintings are hot, nervous and blobby.
Up close, they look like he did them using molten lava
applied with a cannon. When you back off, though, the
jagged splotches blend into recognizable objects with a
remarkable sense of depth and good gradations of tone.
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Howard's style does not lend itself to subjects too
bland to match his technique's intensity. Chimney Rock,
rooms, flowers and portraits seem flat, uninteresting and
unpleasant, because they don't look right in Howard's
hallucinogenic portrayal. Tc appreciate Howard's paint
ings, you have to look at the ones whose subjects let you
get in and get crazy.
Ruff & Tuff (The Big Red Experience) is a football
painting of somebody getting creamed, and it provides a
good representational feeling-probably just what the
scene looks like when a lineman is sitting on your head,
cutting off the oxygen to your brain. Legumes a la Mode
is a nicer, lighter painting of groceries on a table -interesting
colors and shapes and a six-pack of Coors.
Howard must love Coors-the golden can keeps sneak
ing into his paintings. It's there again in Under the Spread
ing Chestnut Trees, at first glance a swirling green abstrac
tion that eventually resolves into chestnut trees, a naked
drunk, and a Coors can.
Study for Political Rally is a test run for a larger paint
ing that isn't in the show. It should be good, if Howard's
cynical rendering of pudgy fatcats is any indication.
Band presents concert
The UNL School of Music will present a free, public
concert by the Collegiate Band at 8 p.m. Thursday in
Kimball Recital Hall. The band, under the direction of
music instructor Robert A. Fought, will perform six
works: Proclamation by Charles Carter, Cuernavaca by
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins, Liebestod by Richard Wagner
Bainum, Scottish Rhapsody by Howard Cable, Joy once
by Claude Thomas Smith and Carnival Day by George
Kenny.
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The best of the exhibit, though, is Boston Tea Party,
a large canvas on the main gallery's west wall. When you
first see it, you might think the Haymarket folks were
careless in lighting it so several areas nearly are obliterated
by glare.
Back up, squint, or slip on your polarized sunglasses,
though, and youll wonder if the gallery didn't do it on
purpose, in the name of public morality. The painting is
an amusing chaos revolving around the Marx Prothers,
involved in some nautical insanity or other. Groucho
reclines in the foreground, drinking champagne out of a
shoe, the ship's captain is getting plastered, somebody's
wandering around wearing a life ring for a collar.
But no respectable movie producer from the Marx
Brothers era would have filmed this scene-not with what
that unclothed blonde wench is doing to Harpo's harp,
or is she? You can't really tell what's going on in any of
Howard's best work -you just wish you could.
You can look at Chimney Rock any time, but you
can only see Dan Howard's imagining of a Marx Brother's
champagne orgy in a Dan Howard painting.
The contrast between his paintings and the other
things in the Haymarket is almost painful. Howard seems
to feel no obligation toward decoration, "niceness," or
the average person's taste in art. He isn't so insecure in
his reputation to shy away from a few yocks. Give him a
paintbrush and he goes mad.
Just the sort of person you'd want running your art
department, l think.
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ASUN
NOTICE OF ELECTION
March 15, 1978
Offices Up for Election:
1. ASUN President, First Vice-President, and Second
Vice President.
2. ASUN Senators in the College of: Agriculture, Archi
tecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering,
Graduate, Home Economics, Nursing, Professional
(Dentistry and Law) and Teachers.
3. College Advisory Boards in the College of Agriculture,
Arts and Sciences, Home Economics, and Teachers.
Voting Procedures:
1. Each student must present hisher own student I.D.
card, with a current registration label on the back, to
to the poll worker. The ac. of giving the I.D. card to
the poll worker is the attempt to vote.
2. Each student will sign hisher own name on the roster
of the college in which heshe is enrolled.
3. Each voter will be marked with ultra-violet ink.
4. Each student I .D. card will be marked.
5. No student shall vote or attempt to vote more than
once in the election, nor shall any student aid in such
an attempt.
6. Violation of any voting regulation will result in prose
cution in Student Court.
Polling Places and Hours:
Polls will be located in the Nebraska Union, the East
Campus Union, the southwest entrance of Nebraska Hall,
and in Ferguson Hall. All polls will be open from
8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on March 15, 1978.
Procedure! for Absentee and Disabled Ballots:
1 . Absentee ballots- Students who will not be in Lincoln,
Nebraska during the time the polls are open because
they are on officially recognized University trip may,
by stating the official function on a form supplied by
the ASUN secretary and having their signature
notarized by 4:00 p.m., March 10. 1978. be permitted
to vote by absentee ballot.
2. Disabled ballots- Disabled shall mean unable to attend
class due to confinement at the Student Health Center
or a hospital. Students so disabled shall call the ASUN
secretary before noon on election day, and arrange
ments shall be made for voting.
Complaints:
Students wishing to file complaints against any candidate
or party for possible violations of the Electoral E commis
sion's regulations must do so by 4:00 p.m., March 16,
1978 in the ASUN office. Comualints must be in written
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To the Candidates:
Financial forms from all official candidates andor parties
must be turned in by 4:00 p.m. March 15. to the ASUN
secretary. For a write-in candidate to be eligible r' of
fice, heshe must file a financial form with the
secretary by 4:00 p.m.. March 17, 1978.
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