El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 13

4F Jan Herring Talks About Art Seminar Slated (BsQnniD Room Colors Tell Owners Personality Dr Szasz writes action-inducing meaning of iconic body signs in general may be paraphrased as follows: am sick therefore take care of 'Be good to Make my husband do such and such! Tell my draft board to stop bothering me! the court and judge that I was not responsible! The basic task of psychiatry is therefore not cure an If what is called mental illness is a form of communicative behavior then the basic task is the understanding and decoding of messages messages often obscurely and obliquely stated decorative art and should have a strong influence in decorating: and decorators should work together closely Unfortunatly they do not This is probably because decorating has become so commercial while painting remains unique and special and personal Ideally one could buy a painting and do a room around it It seldom works this way does not feel restricted when commissioned to do a painting for a particular area in a room a patron already likes my style or they would not have asked me So toe only restrictions would be color size and subject A good artist can work with any color various sizes and various subjects By I HAYAKAWA I have been re-reading "The THyth of Mental by Thomas Szasz professor of psychiatry at the University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse I read it first in '1961 when it appeared I was then and still remains a disturbing book What is rll-ness anyway? asks Dr Szasz 'means bodily disease a disturbance in die function or structure or an organ or some part of the body However the mind is not part of the body although the brain is There can be diseases of the brain resulting in disturbances of its functioning But to speak of diseases of the is to speak in metaphor as when you talk about a or a At one point Dr Szasz compare the relation between body and mind to the relation of a football team to its team spirit is not a thing It cannot be in the sense that a leg can be broken Even if all the members of the team are in good health if is lacking the team will not dq Well like the lack of team spirit is a complicated network of attitudes and behaviors Jan Herring will demonstrate and lecture on in the at the seminar sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women The occasion is the annual Showcase at the El Paso Country Chib Miss seminar will be held in the Mixed Grill Thursday at 2 and at 4 pm The seminars get under way with a champagne preview tomorrow at 7 at the El Paso Country Club MRS JAMES GERTON Interviewed Miss Herring what she had to say: Jan has been painting all her life but only began seriously 25 years ago Why then? nothing else to do in Clint Living in the country means isolation and a lot of free time Because not a bridge player or a socialite or a golfer I paint If I paint probably weigh 300 pounds and be a great just paint with oils and water colors she enamels sculpts makes rugs (acting out) in his symptoms and therefore so that he can think his problems through To have a patient declared and commit him willy-nilly to an institution is to ignore the potential for rationality Dr idea of treatment like that of many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists today is to rely on toe ability to reason with himself and about himself and therefore to grow up It makes sense candle-holders and other craft items And she teaches all over the Southwest and Western US Her classes are usually short course classes (two weeks) for both experienced and beginning painters However toe month of July she devotes to a special class in Cloudcroft JAN desire is talent At least in a young child it is eight or nine a child is ready for the discipline of teaching Before then you attempt to stimulate them and allow them to use their she said we want to promote creativity in children but one really measure or define it We do know that regulated and restricted education stifles it such as coloring pictures in a book or filling in mimeographed pictures It is much better to give a child a blank piece of paper and let him do as he wishes has to be taught the skills of art: This business of doing your own thing is no way to teadi a potential artist There has to be a degree of craftsmanship Learning to draw involves correlating the eye with the hand with toe memory There is nothing really original in art Everything is an individual interpretation of an old idea In order to express oneself and to achieve interpretation one must have the In her book Composition she explains some of these tools This is done by adaption -of letters of the alphabet PAINTING is a at 2 pm The from 7 pm Club Thursday will be in the preview is Wednesday Oct 20 to 9 pm at El Paso Country HONOR ARTIST A preview showing of Idea House by Showcase honors one of El Paso's best-known artists Jan Herring who will lecture and demonstrate at one of a series of seminars Her topic to be presented as well as a decorator to understand colors and how they reflect personalities Color influences personalities Some people have to have the extremes of reds and oranges around them Others tolerate this Still others take color at all and will there paint because they have so many personalities Color has great deal to do with will therefore very often use pink and blue for instance rather than flesh ones in painting skin ly signs of extroverts while is important for a painter IDEA that painters have to make a social statement is just not true The main purpose of a painter is to decorate walls realizes that this is contrary to most belief The mural painter is involved! with a social statement not the easel painter Originally all painting was pure decoration During the Middle Ages it became social as a means of religious instruction for the illiterate But easel painters have always been decorative does not like new plastic stuff It's not beautiful sterile All furnishings should be functional and IS BEAUTIFUL? is not beautiful Some things are ugly like toilets (commodes) No imagination or creativity is used in designing them Toasters are the same way They look like going to take off around the room just going to sit there and make toast Why not make these things no reason why paintings be hung in a bathroom But the way bathrooms look now designed the way they are degrading to the painting really no reason why it need be this LOVES to paint children after a feeling and an essence of the child When she paints she achieves this goal mainly by observation through a trained eye! She says are fast A head takes one to one and a half She determines the surface attitude of a subject in 15 to 20 minutes Then just a matter of finishing it Good friends are harder to Mission Starts Clothing II i i kj Dr Szasz writes people feel unable by means of normal mechanisms such as ordinary speech to prevail over significant objects in their environment they are likely to shift their pleas to toe idiom of proto-language (eg weeping body signs) In other words when love object fails to listen' to verbal complaints and requests one will be compelled or at least tempted to take recourse in communicating by means of iconic body signs i have come to speak of this general phenomenon which may take a great variety of forms as illness As a result instead of seeing that people are engaged in various types of communications we construct and then ourselyescome to believe in various types of mental illnesses such as and so WHAT DO PEOPLE with their body language? The messages are familiar They add' up to help Charley Tupper Chairman of the annual Rescue Mission Clothing Drive kicked off the drive at the weekly meeting of the Downtown Lions Club meeting in the Empire Club and the Lions responded by donating a large amount of clothing Clothing of all kinds is needed especially clothing shoes sheets and blankets by the Rescue Mission which cares for transients as well as assisting a good many local needy families Mr Tupper said the drive will last through Nov 1 and urged people to donate their old and unused clothing by bringing it to either the lobby or the parking lot of the American Bank of Commerce where boxes will be set up or if bringing the clothing downtown is 1 i i Is I f- j- 7 ii i I II 4 i -5 'J I START CLOTHING Charley Tupper left chairman of the Rescue Mission clothing drive and Walter Guthrie superintendent of the mission look over a large pile of clothing donated by members of the Downtown Lions Club at a kick off luncheon Sal Samaniego left a member of the Jefferson Ex-Student Assn presents the first ticket to Frank Parga right president of the association board for the Jefferson High School Homecoming Dance Nov 12 in the El Paso Coliseum Dean Silva director of Student Activities is at right WE GO THROUGH life seeking rewards and avoiding discomfort and pain Some of the rewards of childhood we obtain by being loving dependent children Others we obtain by showing evidence of growing up and becoming self-reliant Throughout life we continue to learn roles and social games: toe obedient student the rebel the flirt toe courtier the faithful henchman the prodigal son toe courageous leader the father the all-protective mother the astute business man toe wheeler-dealer toe wise counselor and so on It takes all of us a long time to grow up because in addition to becoming biologically mature we have so many roles and games to learn each involving its own complex rules and symbolisms But for many of us time passes too quickly We remain dependent little girls when life has already given us toe role of mother At a time when circumstances demand that we become good providers some of us remain little boys that still need to be provided for THE ABILITY to size up a situation objectively to know own strengths and weaknesses to have the flexibility to be tough when toughness is called for and to be tender when tenderness is called for to be able to confront sorrow or loss without disintegration to have an entire repertory of behavior and roles with which to cope with whatever life may have to offer these constitute maturity The task of psychiatry is then to interpret the body language to himself foster the welf-reflective attitude in the patient towards his own body signs so as to effect their translation into verbal As Dr Szasz says this is a most difficult task but it has to be done Why into verbal symbols? So that the patient can become conscious of what he is exceptional value is being miB SORRENTO" GROUP fore surround themselves with greys can walk into a room and tell something about the personality of those who live there! 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