The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 16, 2000, Image 3

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BY MELISSA PANTANO
The Battalion
While Phil Joanou worked as an
advertising executive in Los Ange
les, he became exposed to some of
the darker sides of modern human
nature. But it was when he decided
to leave the corporate world that his
true talent surfaced.
Modern society inspired Joanou
to produce “Art of the Apocalypse,”
for which a reception with Joanou
will he held at 7:30 p.m. in the Visu
al Arts Gallery' on the second floor of
the Memorial Student Center.
Joanou’s art style can be classi
fied as expressionism. All his paint
ings take images from classic works
of art, such as Michaelangelo’s
“David,” then alters them to demon
strate how the image would look if
the event happened today.
The theme of his work is that
classical images have been corrupt
ed by modern society.
Joanou, who is a classically
trained artist, received his masters of
fine arts from the New York Acade
my of Art; he continued studies with
a focus on art history and modern
masters’ techniques.
Joanou used his train
ing and experience to
make a pictorial statement
about society.
The paintings deal
with many situational
themes from war to the
workplace and depict how
modern society has chosen the peo
ple it idolizes.
For example, in one painting,
Joanou focuses on Botticelli’s “The
Birth of Venus.” Joanou said he
wanted to show a modern-day repre
sentation of the piece.
The original painting shows
Venus attended by deities. In the
Joanou version, the world watches,
as if by television, as the goddess
emerges. Joanou said the painting
depicts the goddesses of the present.
“The attraction to the goddess in
these modem times would not only
be her beauty, but her power, influ
ence and popularity,” Joanou said,
“the same qualities that movie stars
and sport superstars have today.”
Joanou also uses provocative is
sues to draw people to his art.
“Lunch at the Office” is inspired
by F.douard Manet’s “Dejeuner sur
I’Herbe" (“Lunch on the Grass”).
Joanou said this painting depicts
a modern woman in the corporate
world who has to struggle to show
her intelligence and not be judged by
her looks.
“All the people around the
woman are wearing masks, which
represents society’s tendency to cov
er up the truth and to cover our feel
ings,” he said. “The woman stands
out in the picture because, not only
is she nude, but the rest of the peo
ple in the painting are very gray,
whereas she is bright and has a soft,
round body.”
“King David” depicts Michae
langelo’s “David” on a New York
City subway. The twist is that, in this
version, David has been stripped to
his underwear.
Joanou said if David lived today
he would probably be portrayed
more as a Calvin Klein model.
“The nude figure was common
place in Greek and Roman culture,
but in our time it is widely used
mainly for shock value.”
Anne Turner, director oi market-
ing and promotions for MSC Visual
Arts Committee and a junior English
major, said this exhibit is appropri
ate due to its themes.
“Even though the year 2000 was
not the beginning of the new millen
nium. there was a panic,” Turner
said. “Y2K and the end of the world,
so ‘Art of the Apocalypse’ is sort of
appropriate.”
Turner said the goal of the Visu
al Arts Committee is to reach stu
dents in a way that is missing from
campus.
“We bring art because there is not
this great opportunity on campus to
become cultured,” Turner said.
“One thing that people say is lack
ing of A&M grads is that exposure to
culture. We chose an exhibit like this
because we felt like it would speak to
students. Art is supposed to be chal
lenging; it’s not sup-
posed to be something
that you can view pas- ^
sively — it’s supposed
to spark thoughts and
emotions.”
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