Saturday, May 11, 2024

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Visual Arts

News Coverage of Jesuit Visual Arts

Last December, the school art magazine released its Fall 2023 issue. The cover featured freshman Jonathan Shu's '27 striking watercolor. Entrants in the fall art contest submitted work created during the 2023 calendar year. The winners were Wil Carroll '24, for his mixed media art Beast of Burden, Matthew Toker '24, for his drawing on scratchboard, and Casimir Kenjarski '24, for his...
The Jesuit Dallas Museum's collection of paintings has been growing at high rates throughout this school year. From the Without a Face exhibition opening in November of last year to the new pieces donated to the museum by Madeleine Soich recently, Jesuit has many different artistic creations to display to the community. Generously given to the museum by the Smithsonian...
During the fall semester, Jesuit Dallas' museum added a collection of pieces created by alum Don Schol '59 and donated by John Mullen '63. Artist, Don Schol, has a very unique perspective on his Vietnam Remembrance pieces that are now displayed outside of the Social Studies Commons in the upstairs A hallway. Don Schol '59 Don Schol is a Jesuit graduate...
 I will admit I am a sucker for vintage films and photography. This form of artistic expression brings a unique aspect to pictures than your regular high-quality cameras. I get a very human feeling when seeing pictures that use vintage lenses, one of imperfections and mistakes. Still, it brings a story, a character, to the art. The photo up above...
 An Overview of the Hobby The balisong hobby is a hobby that not many people are aware of. Some people might have heard of a balisong, more popularly known as a "butterfly knife" but not actually know much about them. Most people in the hobby, however, call it a balisong as that is the traditional name. It, according to oral...
Jean-Claude Gaugy’s  painting There is No Death (Il n'y a pas de mort) has become a much-loved often-studied piece in the Jesuit school community. “I have closely observed the piece many times,” says Joe Tom Hood, ’12, “and I believe it shows that Jesus Christ gave his life for our sins.”  Indeed, art and theology classes alike tour the Jesuit...