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By Dorothy Shinn
Beacon Journal art and architecture writer
Published on Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
He's the artist who put the scared in sacred. One of his paintings (Garden of Earthly Delights) is said to be among the all-time best-selling posters for dorms. And 20th-century analysts have often tried to attribute modern motives to his paintings.
He's Hieronymus Bosch, a 16th-century Netherlandish painter whose unconventional images of demons and half-human animals bespeak both a strict moralistic view of the world and an intimate acquaintance with Netherlandish folklore, not the forerunner of Freudian psychology and/or Surrealism that he has often been credited to be.
Setting the record straight will be Laurinda S. Dixon, professor of art history at Syracuse University and this year's Catherine H. Campbell Memorial Art History lecturer.
She will give her free, public talk, Demons and Disease in the Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, at 6 p.m. Friday at the University of Akron Mary S. Myers School of Art Folk Hall Auditorium, 150 E. Exchange St. A reception for the audience will follow.
Regarded as a leading expert on Bosch, Dixon will examine late-medieval medicine and Bosch's famous representations of demonic creatures in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Catherine H. Campbell Memorial Art History Lecture Series brings prominent art historians to the UA campus each year. The late Catherine Campbell, a 1988 graduate of the Myers School of Art, established the series that now continues in its 11th year through the generosity of her family and friends.
For more information, call 330-972-6030 or e-mail LGelfan@uakron.edu.
Byzantine visions
Robin Cormack, professor emeritus in the history of art at the University of London, will discuss the Visions of Byzantium in the sixth annual Helen and John Collis Lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., University Circle.
From its intellectual and spiritual epicenter of Constantinople, Byzantium spread its culture and religion, leaving a lasting impression on European contemporaries while influencing their art and culture.
A book signing of Cormack's works, including Icons ($22.95) and Byzantine Art ($27.95), will follow his talk.
This lecture is free but tickets are required. Call the CMA Ticket Center at 888-262-0033.
Africentric viewpoint
A panel discussion on the exhibit, From an Africentric Point of View, with works by artists Jon Onye Lockard and Woodrow Nash on display through Oct. 15 at the University of Akron Honors College Gallery, 180 S. College St., will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Honors College Commons.
Both Lockard and Nash will participate in the free discussion and will be on hand for a 5 to 7:30 p.m. reception.
Lockard, an artist and educator whose career spans more than 40 years, has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. A past president of the National Conference of Artists, Lockard is associate director of the Society for the Study of African American Culture and Aesthetics.
Born in the late 1940s in Akron, Nash worked as a freelance artist, mural painter and illustrator until he became a fashion illustrator in New York City in 1975. There he designed and illustrated record albums for jazz artists. He returned to Ohio in the mid-1980s to work as a technical illustrator at Goodyear Aerospace Corp., followed by a stint as an illustrator for American Greetings. In 1991, Nash moved to Madison, Wis., and today his work is collected internationally.
Call 330-972-6030 or e-mail SchoolofArt@uakron.edu.
Today
Photo Tech — The first meeting of LightLab, a free group of photography/film practitioners, will be held at 7 p.m. at the Akron Art Museum, 1 S. High St. Register by e-mailing your name and telephone number to info@akronfilm.com.
PAA Classes — Peninsula Art Academy will begin its fall classes, with offerings that range from glass fusing to landscape painting. 330-657-2248 or http://www.peninsulaartacademy.com.
Artist Reception — A 7 to 9 p.m. reception will be held for the artists featured in A Vehicle for Satire . . . The Skull and Skeleton in Art: Folk Art to Pop Culture, Lakeland Community College, 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland. Call 440-525-7029, e-mail murbas@lakelandcc.edu or go to http://www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery.
Friday
Ohio's Best Places — Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage is the title of Jim McCormac's latest book, a photographic journey through the best remaining places in the Buckeye State, and also the title of his 7:30 p.m. presentation at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Murch Auditorium, 1 Wade Oval, University Circle. He will sign his book following the presentation. $10; $9 seniors, students and children. 800-317-9155, ext. 3279, or visit http://www.cmnh.org/site/explorer.aspx.
Saturday
Annual Picnic — Members of the Peninsula Art Academy will hold their annual picnic from 5 to 7 p.m. at the academy, 1600 W. Mill St. Please RSVP to 330-657-2248.
WPA Film — The Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way E., will revisit FDR's Federal Writers Project with a 2 p.m. screening of Soul of a People: Writing America's Story, a powerful new documentary produced and directed by Andrea Kalin, based on David A. Taylor's eponymous book. The Federal Writers Project was one of four arts programs under the Works Progress Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The free event will be held in the museum's Fred F. Silk Community Room. 330-833-4061.
Reception — Artist Lorri Lott will be on hand for the 2 to 4 p.m. opening reception for her exhibit, Lorri Lott, debris from a lost campaign, at William Busta Gallery, 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, through Oct. 10. Call 216-298-9071, e-mail bustagallery@gmail.com or go to http://www.williambustagallery.com.
Deadlines
Wednesday — To submit a one-page project proposal (text or image) to the organizers of All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland, a collective exhibit of architectural ideas for vacant sites in Cleveland, to be exhibited in the Sculpture Center Gallery, 12210 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, during the last weekend in October. For more information, go to http://postarchitecturejournal.wordpress.com/ or http://www.sculpturecenter.org or e-mail postarchitecturejournal@gmail.com.
Oct. 14 — To enter the postcard show, Greetings from Kent, sponsored by Kent State University School of Art's Downtown Gallery and McKay Bricker Gallery & Framing, 141 E. Main St., Kent, OH 44240. Artists may submit up to two works with a $10 entry fee for inclusion in the show. Works must be 4- by 6-inch postcards. The opening reception and benefit auction will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 24 at the gallery. The show will remain on view through Nov. 14. For an entry form, go to http://galleries.kent.edu. E-mail galleries@kent.edu or bob@mckaybricker.com.
Dorothy Shinn writes about art and architecture for the Akron Beacon Journal. Send information to her at the Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309-0640 or dtgshinn@neo.rr.com.
He's the artist who put the scared in sacred. One of his paintings (Garden of Earthly Delights) is said to be among the all-time best-selling posters for dorms. And 20th-century analysts have often tried to attribute modern motives to his paintings.
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