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Wednesday, Octoher 22, 1958

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

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of God.

Dr. Sloane illustrated the at-
tempt to visualize God with ref-
erence to several cultures: the
quasi-human Egyptian hippotomus
goddess with her animal snout jux-
taposed with the coiffure charac-
teristic of divinity is opposed to
the anthromorphic representation
of Ammon the Sun God. The Indi-
and god Shiva, with four arms in a

ring of fire is a physical manifes-

tation’*of a god who is all power-
ful. Nirvana the Japanese god has
an infinity of hands symbolic of
infinite mercy, and his fat asexual
/tace with an air of deep meditation
contrasts _ with the Greek Zeus,
~ represented as a physically magni-
ficent man.

All these are efforts to objectify
the power beyond man, but the
Christian God presents the most
difficult problem of all. The God
of Genesis and the prophets is
all powerful and vindictive; the
God of Michelangelo, as the cre-
ator of Eve is less a being of
wrath, and more of an omnipotent
patriarch.

. Another problem is the Christian
God is essentially three, father,
son and holy ghost. The artist has
recourse to the scriptures for the
appearance of the first two mem-
bers of the trinity, as in Genesis,
“God made nian in his own image.”
Jesus is the word made flesh in
human form. The holy. ghost is
another problem; John refers to
the holy spirit as “like a dove,”
it is also represented as a dozen
tongues of fire, or a blaze of light.

If God is in human form, how-
ever, how is he to be distinguished
from other men? In early Chris-
tian art the mysteries of divinity
were so sacrosanct as to be repre-
sented only symbolically. The pea-
cock as immortality, the vine as




Christ, the alpha and omega as
symbols of beginning ‘and end
were components of an elobrate
symbolic statement of the nature
of Christian divinity. This ap-
proach merely circumvents — the
question of representation and dif-
ferentiation. Physical size and the
cross nimbus (instead of plain
halo) had helped distinguish pagan
gods,

The physical iiaeniabidie of
the Christian God is a powerful
force in framing a conception of
the spiritual character. Immense
physical energy is equated with
creative capacity, and a god rush-
ing through space can mold the
sun and moon-in-the-twinkling of
an eye.

In painting Jesus, Rembrandt
again faced the problem of differ-
entiation, especially in the scene in-
volving the money changers in the
temple which concerned specially
human characteristics. An angry
Christ who enters the temple with
a strong expression of disgust is
like a man, and Rembrandt as one
of history’s greatest character ex-
perts. is able to grasp the dis-
tinctly human characteristics. But
Christ alone is perfect, and Rem-
brandt has only the experience of
human imperfection. Rembrandt
fails ignominiously; Christ be-
comes a neuter figure with a silly
look.

The. representation of God is
hampered by the belief of many
theologians that men confuse the
essence with the image. This ques-





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tion arose violently during the
Reformation, and Calvanist icono-
clasm was at least partially re-
sponsible for the absence of Prot-
estant religious art.

In conclusion Dr. Sloane said
that in the past two centuries of
religious art has fallen on evil
days. The Christ of the long,
greasy hair, uprolled weeping eyes
and effeminate mouth is one to
repel the Sunday School.

Another criticism of modern re-
ligious painting is the persorial
subjective aspect of it, ‘when

artists are occupied with the pro-

jection of themselves into their
subject matter. Difficulties aside,
the question, “wha does God look
like” has captivated artists of all
ages and civilizations. .

The News regrets the absence
of a picture of “Inside Out,”
and sympathises with its pho-
tographer, Holly Miller, of the
broken collar bone.—Ed.





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and expansive waist-line, (Cyril
Mahoney (Trudy Hoffman) ‘was
the melodramatic bartender for all
time. Though his was a _ stock
part, Mahoney managed to make
its very triteness entertaining,
and the audience was genuinely
sympathetic toward his love for
Maisie, His song, “Last Chance”,
was sung simply, and its pathos
was sunprisingly real. :
Labored hours spent in search
of terms for Chung were fruitless.
All we can say to Chung is many
yellow butterflies, and to Ginny
Norton hearty acclaim. She won
us completely.

Mara was defiinitely outside the
spirit of the play. In contrast to
the rest of the cast, her character
had no warmth—her. function was
between that of a commentator
and a member of the action. She
was perplexing for this’ reason:
she did not belong to Beatnik land,
nor was her detachment elucidat-
ing. And when Mara (Cynthia
Holley Taylor) abruptly became
involved with Youngblood J. Press,
the audience’s confusion was com-
plete, We are at loss to penetrate
the junior mind over these affairs
of the heart. In a show so gay,
this intrusion of morality nonplus-
sed us.

Fay DuBose as Yoyo had the
hard job of fulfilling an amorous
role opposite Mara. Moreover the
difficulty of her task was increas-
ed by its non-character quality; a
standard collegiate man was de-
manded, and Fay managed to be
one. Her song was lovely, de-
spite the incongruity with which
class shows are always faced in
presenting a romantically interest-
ing male,

Ma Smithers (Barbara North-



SHOW REVIEW CONTINUED

_,rop) was the only one of the cast

who could tell the Beatniks “what
was what”. Her fantastic accent
did not overwhelm the force of her
character; her strident maternity
saved the show from threatening
disintegration,

Morris was the most Beat char-
acter in the show. His language

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