Fine Arts Column: The art of laughter—comedies
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST You know what is so wonderful to watch after a long, hard day of work? A heart-breaking tragedy! No, that was obviously not your answer, I imagine, and nor is it mine. I do love a good dramatic or tragic play because of all the important morals, life lessons and […]
Fine Arts Column: Remake or mistake?
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Many of you may know that the Theatre Department’s main-stage play this semester is the radio show “Merry Christmas, George Bailey.” Some people have approached me asking about this “remake” of the movie, and the question always trips me up, because it’s not a remake. Or is it? How often […]
Fine Arts Column: Acting—The math of the BA major
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST This very well may be the strangest concept I have ever thought: mathematics and the art of acting are parallels to each other in their respective areas. Now, I am aware that I am making quite a stretch with the following argument, so bear with me. I am starting to […]
Fine Arts Column: Movies and art
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Though I have gotten to the point of preferring books, I do love a good movie. Marvel, “The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter,” classic disney and tons of random other movies. I love them all! Though I personally have never been on the set of a film, I have family in […]
Fine Arts Column: Major arts are all connected
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST In doing some reading for my thesis, I stumbled across a portion of a lecture from the 1960’s in which the speaker goes into some comparisons of the seven major arts: poetry, sculpture, dance, painting, architecture, drama, and music. He says that he makes that distinction for any who are […]
Fine Arts Column: Dance—The art that could be much more
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST I have been dancing since I was 8 years old. I am a senior theatre major, but I never did musical theatre. Some say that doesn’t make any sense when in reality it makes better sense if you understand the purpose behind it all. Singing has always terrified me, though […]
Fine Arts Column: Art should make you feel uncomfortable
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST If you have seen any of the plays that have been put on the Anathan theatre stage this semester…you doubtless felt uncomfortable at one point or another. Fine Between the deep, gripping, emotional, and intense main stage of ‘The Elephant Man,’ the craziness of the one act ‘Salome,’ and the […]
Fine Arts Column: Fine Arts and Electronics
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Oh the ever so wonderful sound of a phone receiving a Facebook message during an emotionally gripping scene of play. …Wait a second … that is not good at all! But it is quite odd that it happens all of the time in movie theaters and during concerts, dance recitals […]
Fine Arts Column: Art is a sustenance
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST A sad thought occurred to me the other day. I was thinking about my position in the world as an artist and that there are many tools I am truly blessed to have been equipped with. But then it dawned on me how much art is treated as an “extra” […]
Fine Arts Column: Holding the mirror up to nature
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST You know what one of the most ironic things is about theatre? It actually exposes the audience way more than it does the actors. Understandably, most seem to believe that when they go to watch any sort of play being performed that it is those on the stage who are […]