Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978
Artist’s work vibrates
with discovery optimism
By FLA VIA KRONE
Battalion Reporter
It is tempting to describe the
paintings of Charles Schorre, which
now are on exhibit in the J. Earl
Rudder Exhibit Hall, with adjec
tives like abstract, electric and vig
orous.
However, such adjectives only
describe what one sees on a Schorre
canvas. The 53-year-old native of
Cuero, Texas, does not deal with
the real world as we see it but with a
world of experimentation and dis
covery. To limit a description of
Schorre’s work to what one sees is to
say nothing about Schorre’s art.
A part of Schorre’s art results
from his unique way of making pic
tures. A typical Schorre canvas be
gins as a wet and crumpled piece of
cloth to which the artist applies
sequentia lahe of startling vivid,
pure color. Schorre recognizes and
takes advantage of the liquid prop
erties of paint, using it to cover a
canvas with few brqsh strokes or
other indications of controlled ap
plication. Instead, he allows the
paint to flow, puddle and mix on the
canvas to produce what appears to
be an accidental collage of color.
Schorre’s canvases only appear
accidental and uncontrolled, how
ever. “My work is not accidental,”
Schorre said. “It is actually very de
liberate and well thought out.”
Once painted, the Schorre canvas
becomes a patterned background on
which the artist draws to form a pat-
poles," Schorre said. “One pole is
discovery and the other is ecstasy.”
A gallery of Schorre paintings vib
rates with that tension that is both
forward looking and joyful.
Although Schorre is an ac
complished graphic illustrator and
recipient of national and interna
tional awards for graphic design, he
deliberately avoids realism in his
paintings.
Review
tern over the painted ground. In
this respect, Schorre’s works repre
sent a unique synthesis of two
picture-making methods, both
painting and drawing.
However, Schorre’s technique
explains only a part of the impact of
his art.
“I work in a tension between two
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“Our tradition and history are
important,” Schorre said. “How
ever, we must not only realize our
history, but also our present and our
future.
“Discovery. . . has more reality in
it than variations on a theme. I am
existential.
“The moment is the thing. In my
paintings I react to what happens
each day.”
The Charles Schorre Exhibition
will run until Oct. 31 and is pre
sented by the University Art
Exhibits Series and the Memorial
Student Center Arts Committee.
Schlesinger
favors Texas
superport
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FREEPORT — U.S. C
Gammage, D-Houston, WedJ
said Energy Secretary j ail
Schlesinger supports constructb
a publicly owned superport.
Gammage, speaking at a ne*
conference, said a letter f ro
Schlesinger encouraged him
press for approval of the T e!
Deepwater Port Authority's pr*
osal for a superport from the ft
partment of Transportation.
Gammage said the letter mt
cated to him that the Department
Energy would intervene on beh
of the Texas proposal in hearings
federal permits.
Bob Casey, chairman of the n
authority, said permit applied
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Roger Seletsky, left, with the University Arts
Committee, and Charles Schorre, an accom
plished graphic artist, examine Schorre’s
Battalion photo by Paige Beajley
biographical folder. Schorre’s paintings will
be on display in the J. Earl Rudder Exhibit
Hall until Oct. 31.
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Women suffer self-induced starvation
United Press International
BALTIMORE — Spending lun
chtime gossiping with a group of
friends is an enjoyable activity for
most teen-age girls. But to those en
rolled in the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity Weight Disorders Clinic, the
noon hour can be frightening.
That is the hour when patients
suffering from anorexia nervosa —
self-induced starvation — talk about
the problem that has reduced some
of them to as little as 70 pounds.
Dr. Arnold Andersen, the clinic’s
director and a psychiatrist, said
“About 0.5 of 1 percent of high
school women have some form of
the disease,” Andersen said. “It’s
not rare and it’s not common like
the cold, but there’s a lot of them
around.”
Andersen said the patient’s “fear
of getting fat” has been treated in
tensively with psychotherapy for
several years, but the Hopkins clinic
takes a different approach — inten
sified nutritional rehabilitation.
Doctors prescribe food like
medicine.
“Our understanding is that there
is no single cause,” he said. “It is
more like the blind man and the
elephant, in that if you approach it
from one type of symptom, you
think it comes from one biological
...anorexia nervosa is a dis
order characterized by fear of
fatness and loss of monthly
periods. It has a 10 percent
mortality rate, says Dr. Arnold
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go against a real fear that they
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Andersen said the disease is be
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Andersen described thety
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