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Thursday, June 22,J| LEUM Continued from Pa^ Mobil production con® >f '95, said the opportuii rs are growing because! are heavily competing i market is so very comp >e petroleum engineers Omar said, so said the uncertainty / tends to discourage p® i>. She said the oil industn h years of prosperity pression. >s Muthukrishnan,apetr ering graduate student •ned about finding a join because the industry chi’- si' said working in petrol; g means accepting there; less. iustry is fickle withrespe; /luthukrishnansaid. engineers, companies issign more responsibilit eers than in past years, aetroleum) engineershai nore now than 20 years icy have to supervise )mar said. employers are lookingte lid companies like Exxon! ier engineers, esperiallydi ers, to work in petroleum <xon Mobil) havebeent ers from other fields for e shortage of petroleume aeen an increasing com Thursday, June 22, 2000 AGCr E£ VVQy' Page 3 THE BATTALION SEEING LUCIFER Houston's Museum of Fine Arts brings Jackson Pollock's works closer than ever w hen Jackson Pollock died in 1956, he was universally recog nized as the man who created American modern art. The Mu seum of Fine Arts in Houston has brought a collection of Pol lock's art to Texas to display his innovative works. Barry Walker, curator of the New American Vision exhibit, which houses Pollock's paint ings, said Pollock represents the lid that because of thelao | most creative era in American art. "Pollock was the first American artist to be taken se riously everywhere," Walker said. "This period, right after World War II, was the first time any American artist was taken seriously in Europe. Before Pol- aat the shortage of petid| |ock/ art was dominat e d b y the great Europeans of the time, like Dali and Chagall. Pollock put us on the map." Walker said the exhibit houses some of Pollock's best work, including a sketchbook of studies for works that he re leased and some that were nev er painted. "That is probably going to be our biggest draw," Walker said. "That book looks back over all Pollock at work on one of his later paintings, "Lavender Mist," using his famed "drip and illBi'lB iiTi“Tmf Ww** ^*1 slash"technique. He was the first American to gain respect on the world art circuit. study at the Arts Student League in New York City. After he grad uated, he went on to work in the easel-painting department of the Federal Art Project, the govern ment's first official office to fund art. Pollock worked his way up from humble beginnings to be ing the greatest artist and per sonality of his day. Pollock's obituary in Time Magazine summed up his cult status: "Died. Jackson Pollock, the bearded shock trooper of modern painting who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them and raked them with razors ... ; at the wheel of his convertible." Though Pollock had been drink ing before the tragic car accident that ended his life, it was a fitting way to end a life lived as if there were no tomorrow. Catherine Hastedt, curator of the J. WayneStark Galleries on the Texas A&M campus, said Pollock was "not someone you'd want to model yourself after" due to his heavy drinking and womanizing, but he painted his own way, just as he lived. "Pollock was very avant- garde with his action painting," Hastedt said. "He would drip paint on his canvases when they were lying on the floor, or he would tie brushes to a bicycle wheel and just splash paint on a canvas. He was trying to create paintings randomly, but with a mechanical process. It was called action painting, because it im plied motion and took almost a physical exercise to create." David Romei, executive direc tor of the Arts Council of the Bra zos Valley, said it is impossible to know American art without be ing familiar with Pollock's work. "Jackson Pollock is essential to understanding American art," Romei said. "Pollock created a whole new manifestation of modern art — he changed the entire world's view away from the European perspective." Romei said Pollock is con sidered by many artists and crit ics to be the "founding father of abstract" because his work was the bridge from old-world aes thetics to the new American ideas of art. Romei said Ameri can art took on a new impor tance in the world after Pollock, Pollock's "The Deep," painted in 1953. and everyone, including college students, should experience his work for themselves. The exhibit in Houston ends Sunday, June 25. gital leousei dorms AGO (A P) j— Collet.;- , take heart: Schook*4 itry are considering tf* inline video nerivorki 1 ■ies, meaning lectures a- mouse click away, western University is in >f a $2 million network; at will deliver digital vid :s dorms, allowingstudei i i lectures or other instn deos without everleav nes away from home, ft es are following suit, ersity computing cNl sday that the technoloj} j toward linking hundff ations through a newt)! iet. it the Internet did witk capability, it made it pa* ayone to become a publi? Mort Rahimi, North.; e president of informatf gy. "The environment® ing at Northwestern is; : j ow each one of our stuck 1 awestern and our fa® s... to become produced a I vi deo conveys crisp o a computer through high-speed conned)! mg jumpy images andk d times associated with net video. awestern plans to finish 1 within a month, alio" 1 ) students in its dorn" id receive digital vid! said. STORY BY JASON BENNYHOFF PHOTOS COURTESY OF POLLOCK-KRASNER INSTITUTE he had done — all he had learned. The sketchbook is basi cally nine pages that show his transformation as he learned lessons from great artists of the past, even Renaissance artists, and how he took those lessons and made them his own." Pollock was famous not only for his work, but also for his lifestyle. Pollock was a superstar in his own time, on par with the later, more famously eccentric Andy Warhol. Pollock was born to simple roots in Cody, Wyoming, which he soon left to cr o CQ Moves to study in New York Begins working at the Federal Art Project 1911 1919 Marries Lee Krasner 1938 Male and Female 1991 1999 ..1 RUBEN DELUNA/Tiie Battai.ion Jhief ens, Opinion Editor >od, Sports Editor itson, Sci/Tech Editor Photo Editor eluna, Graphics Editor Payton, Web Master ;nts at Texas A&M University alism. News offices are in Ol'lJ) i5-2647; E-mail: Thebattalion* lonsorship or endorsement call 845-2696. For classified 3 * ;Donald, and office hours areS 1 ach Texas A&M student to piP) 1 25$. Mail subscriptions are S'* : summer or $10 a month. To 1 '* 2611. ly through Friday during theft 11 : mmer session (except Univeisr . 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