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Show SPOTLIGHT Paul Ellingson The Art Center is fortunate to have Paul Ellingson as an instructor. Paul uses strictly watercolor as a medium and teaches two classes here at the Art Center. He started painting in 1959 when in architectural school; however, he has been drawing since Junior High School. According to Paul, "A lot of people try to paint before learning to draw," but he feels that, "One really needs to learn to draw first" He has been teaching at the Art Center for two years and because of a keen interest in architecture, he trys, through his watercolors, to force the man-made environment to relate to nature more strongly than it actually does. He is constantly trying to do subject matter that is not usually done by watercotorists. He loves architecture and watercolor. "Part of my drawings are the result of my architectural training." He was born in Wisconsin. His father was a flight-instructor in the navy in W.W.II, and as a result, loves airplanes and has done an unusual series of watercolors on early W.W.I, airplanes. He is working on a book, in which he expands on his concept of environmental space. Paul discovered the "continumorph," an architectural concept which "will be the man-made analog to nature." The term "continumorph" was coined by a colleague, Robert Smith. "Nature is a continuam of parts. Through use of the continumorph, man and nature will be participating in one grand continuam." The continumorph, as a form, gets away from the traditional architectural model that is based on lines and planes. According to the artist, "Architecture, today and always, has been totally alien to nature. Man's environment ought to be based on nature as a model and not on abstract geometry." He considers architecture an art form and says, "The history of architecture is the history of the box. We design and construct a box and then must cover it with trees and greenery in order to make it more aesthetically acceptable." Paul received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Utah, along with a Master of Fine Arts. He has worked for architects in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, while at the same time evolving his theory on continumorphs. He hopes that the new home for the Art Center will be more than "just a forum for showing art work and that it won't become embroiled in politics. It should be used as a broadcaster of artistic and cultural values and that, along with being a forum, should become an institution of analysis and criticism." - ELIZABETH C. DELANEY NON PROFIT ORG. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Salt Lake City, Utah PERMIT NO. 1096 ENTER 54 FINCH LANE 84102 328-2762 |