Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fc 'y k.y Blue Sky stands in front of his mura TheS Intense love By LINDA STURM * Staff Writer { Through his keen eye for detail and love of nature, Blue Sky has ( established himself as one of South 1 n nrtictc 1 V^aiumia 5 niusi iciiuvvntu tuuaus. Although he was born and ' raised in Columbia, Sky left the area and went to New York in i 1965 with the intention of never 1 coming back. 1 "New York is a heavy dose. It's intense," he said. ( He missed the trees, water and 1 beaches of South Carolina, he said, i It took him a year to realize that "nature is the most important thing i in the world to me," he said. 5 It was in a crowded subway that he asked himself, "What am I do- I ing here? It's April. I should be on t the beach." 5 Sky quit his job in New York as rrr WEOl class i Grand Bahamas. Ticke Offered through a Lice Limited ORIGI 1-800 wAme Send Check C A Suite 500, 9515 NAME ADDRESS CITY *Based on double occ Additional chai ' \ ' 1, "Moonlight on the Great Pee [ >ky's ! for nature i designer and packed up his Jaguar and came home. Since his return, he has given Columbia it's famous landmark mural "Tunnel Vision" (1975), as well as his robot creations at the Lexington Medical Center. He is currently working on a nural commissioned by Harper's Restaurant in Five Points, ft deDiets Five Points as it was in the 1920s and 1930s. Sky is using an Did photograph as a starting point or his mural, which will depict a winter scene. Sky uses house paint on his nurals because the colors are the ;ame tones as nature. "I can get a gallon of house Daint for the price of a tube of arist color, and it lasts longer," he said. Sky said his interest in history is ' v j ' . 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He likes to explore the places unspoiled by man. Sky describes one trip down the river to Charleston as being "like paradise." "It all ends up in my paintings," Sky said. Along with his passion for naUGHT /1?\ i to / AVAILABLE \ / FOR ONLY \ ?($99.') ist \PER PERSON/ )rt ^ rom date of purchase, lise Line. ?maining *538.00 D44/J& avel i^ath Coupon To s Maryland 21093 ZIP CODE lime Share Programs. ;ks for delivery. 0 Photos courtesy of Autumn Sky magazine mit ist's works ture, Sky is a supporter of the Animal Protection League. He donates works so they can raise money. He is also a vegetarian and said that "hunting is the worst evil in our country today. mere is no excuse tor it. i don't know what could be done to stop it. It is so ingrained," he said. Sky is also a firm opponent of governmental censorship of art. "The government should get out of the arts. You can't have politics and art. It doesn't mix," Sky said. He said it is the same as the need for religion and politics to be kept separate. "Government interference with art guarantees mediocrity. Art has nothing to do with this world. It has a world of its own," he said. "That's the world I live in ? a world of aesthetics." Sky believes that art and religare very similar. They both help people get in touch with themselves and their spirits, he said. Space also interests Sky. "It's incredible. We're like a grain of sand on the beach. We need to consider the situation and the immensity of our existence," he said. Sky, like the impressionists he admires, deals with light and its reflection in his paintings as well as capturing the moment. The light of the moon and the moon itself -are nffpn rpflprtpH in hie u/nrlrc Sky is also writing a book on the relationship between society and the automobile. 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FRIDAY, SEPTEIT1BER 28 in th1 RDinission is fre CULTURAL ARTS PRE THE STAnLEY JDRDAn TH FRIDAY, SEPTEUIBER 28 RT THE RDmiSSIOn: $6.00 STUDEnTS, $12.5 Sl?ll CAROLINA PROGRAM UNIOh nore information, call the Carolina Pr This activity paid for, in part, by Sti eal * Real, ?ht, mortality" r's "Tunnel Vision" mural. :v '1 m r M. fiJ house paint, Blue Sky prenother mural. irleston Gallery in Five Points November. Iky said he feels good about the ltributions he is making in ith Carolina. He said he beres he is making a difference t he could not havjp made in v York. i n HEAR YE! T TO YOU BY CPU ESEI1TS: [DEI1T AT 8:00 a m. EGOLDEn SPUR LI ISEnTS: HQ AT 8:00 p.ra. I KOGER CEnTER iOG $17.50 PUBLIC i ogram Union at 777-7130 iident Activity Fees