Professor Harry I.
Naar began teaching at the then Ryder College in 1980, and the school sometimes has only a few rooms for art shows.
Now, almost 40 years from now, the school can have an art gallery that offers two exhibitions to the public every semester, attracting local, national and some well-known international artists.
But Professor Naar is about to retire, and the local art community regrets that he is about to leave, not only because of his important contribution to Ryder University, but his own work enriches many exhibitions in the region.
Watercolors observe and imagine, "Watercolors extracted from his work are currently on display in galleries he has created and nurtured over the years.
Like all the exhibits in the gallery, this exhibition is accompanied by a complete color catalogue.
According to Naar, Rider is the only school in the region that offers a catalogue for visitors for free, a powerful drawing card for artists.
And in the past the exhibition catalogue included a long Naar-
The catalogue includes Mel Leipzig, the famous Trenton artist and honorary professor of Meisser County Community College and Naar biography and prose by Dan Bishaw, art critic of New Jersey starsLedger.
Last week, Naar and I recalled his interest in art and teaching.
"I have a wonderful art teacher.
"He is the main driving force for me to become an artist," he said . ".
"He taught a lot of art history and he painted in class.
We see the creative process from the people we admire.
Art was a mystery until then.
With him, it survived.
When I know it's something I want to do.
I went to Philadelphia College of Art.
University of Art now)
And then to Indiana University, Bloomington. " (
He got a master's degree there. )
Speaking of the dual foundations of art and liberal arts education, Naar said, "A lot of people think you're just drawing.
But in order to create a visual image, you need to read a lot and get in touch with all sorts of things.
I have a professor who gave me a liberal arts education focused on visual arts.
That's what I tried to do at Rider.
"What he can now see in the gallery he founded is his 32 watercolors.
When he named the exhibition "watercolors of observation and imagination", an example of what he meant was his painting, he said, he drew "still life of folding pictures of freight train books" for his children.
"Almost everything I paint has some personal attachment, and the painting is related not only to me, but also to my family," he said . ".
The painting was invented.
I invented the table, but the books on the windowsill, the shells and fruits on the table are real.
I bought the fabric and put it on the chair.
It looks like I may have washed with water, but I don't draw like this.
I paint watercolors like oil paintings.
I mixed a color and put it down with a small pen and Pen painted by Cezanne.
His "view of the rocks" was also done with a small pen.
Some pencil strokes are shown in this area, and the dark areas are covered with more strokes, he explained.
When he makes more paper show up, a lighter area will appear, and the background, although it looks like he used washing, is only the color of the paper he used.
About "roof, beach paradise", he said it was a direct painting.
Beach House has a roof deck of 180
He likes painting there very much.
"I am concerned about distance," he said . "
That day, his views were limited in the eyes of many --
The sloping roof, some chimneys and poles, is far from a blue ocean on the horizon.
"It's important to me," he said, "I paint in a representative way, but I want people to recognize that I'm drawing, not trying to deceive their eyes.
I'm not painting too realistic.
You just have to take a picture.
My picture is about what I'm looking.
I don't mean it.
I change the color and position of things because I am trying to create a satisfactory composition.
"In addition to the fact that Naar is always faithful to the creation of his own works, teaching, curatorial exhibitions in the gallery, he is also the founder of the Ryder University Art Collection, often inviting the public to visit and enjoy.
The works are displayed in areas of the university campus that are accessible to the public, such as the library, the north hall that houses educational programs, and the administrative office, to name a few.
I encourage you to travel.
This is an important collection for artists to show their works in Rider during Naar's outstanding tenure.
Professor Naar is on display in more than 30 exhibitions
Hold personal exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions in Corcoran Art Museum, New Jersey State Museum, Soviet Union of Artists Gallery and other places around the country (Moscow)
Among other things, the attes visual center in Havana, Cuba.
His works are exhibited in many museums and companies across the United States. S.
He also received many prestigious awards and scholarships.
He said that now he is retired and moved to Seattle, Washington, with his wife Barbara, and with their grandchildren, "I hope I have an important impact on the direction of the university, and, in various ways of being able to express the development of visual image to students.
There is no best way.
I feel it is very important to have the opportunity to experience a course that a student may not be able to find in another place and be able to attend.
It is important to not only understand what you think you are interested in, but also to reach out to lessons that may change your direction or increase your experience and learn about other things.
This is the importance of liberal arts education.
I hope I can teach this.
"If you go: What: Harry I.
Naar observation and imagine of watercolor painting in Where: lawrencevillewhen Lawrence, road 3rd, 2083 floor Bart in Lu Dirk center of Ryder Art Museum of the University of: to November 30. Hours, 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. , Tuesday-Thursday; Noon-4 p. m. , Sunday. Naar talk: 7 p. m. November 7. CONTACT: 609-896-5168. www.
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