ARTS The Michigan Daily Tuesday, March 31, 1987 Page 7 Taking a step into the 'real' art world By Charles Oestreicher For the majority of students who will receive degrees from the University in May, graduation will involve little official fanfare. The event is marked by a vast ceremony during which the graduate dons a cap and gown, listens to some dignitary of some sort deliver a speech, receives her diploma - and so ends a four-year journey in a single day. The process for graduating """"""""" r Fine Arts '87 of the artist's work in a gallery setting. The shows serve as a review of the past four years and previews how the artist will delvelop his talent further. They are extremely significant for the simple reason that it is tough to have one's work exhibited on the outside. For most of the graduates, it is their first taste of the big-time art world. Graduating students don't have to have a show, but most choose to anyway. For B.F.A. candidates, the show and its ensuing grandeur are a time for them to reflect upon work completed and look ahead to new opportunities in the professional world or graduate school. M.F.A. candidates, though, can savor their education in a particular field to its limit. Says one graduate student whose show will be in December: "This is it. Getting your Master's degree is as far as you can go. They confer a Ph.D. in Art in Japan, but in this country, the Master's is pretty much the end of the road in your concentration." What also makes these shows special is the diversity of media and styles within each one. Each show includes students in different concentrations, so it is not unusual to see paintings hanging next to graphic design displays with a mixedrmedia sculpture in the middle of the same room. Pervading each show is the camaraderie of the artists. The shows symbolize the artist's abandonment of ego; the works are on displays not to impress, but to reaffirm the value of time spent working towards a degree. The pieces, in their striking differences in style and attitudes from one another, develop a strange sort of unity when they are on display. Seldom does one particular work stand out in the shows; rather, the level of proficiency is such that See ART, Page 8 Degree Shows B.F.A. and M.F.A. candidates doesn't differ much from everyone else's, except for a special exhibit Martin: Strummin' and pickin' his way to the Ark By V.J. Beauchamp Martin Carthy, British folk singer, guitar, and hero extraordinaire will make an appearance at the Ark tonight, 8 p.m. Carthy is well known among traditional British folk connoisseurs as a guitarist who incorporates American finger picking and the rhythms of traditional British dance music into a very percussive picking style. Carthy also holds the credit of having written the guitar part of "Scarborough Fair." Should I mention the voice or the mandolin? More importantly though, Carthy has represented traditional British music before it was a cool thing to do. Carthy's tunes all strike the ear as being foreign and exotic. Bright CLASSIFIED ADS 764-0557 Scottish and English dance tunes with an odd number of measures, or ballads with bent, almost modal melodies. And as is fitting for a British singer, his songs concern themselves with disease, cuckoldry, and death. But be not afraid. Carthy is no stiff academic - he loves this stuff, and sings and plays with great enthusiasm, thick with drama and glory and beauty and bawdy humor. Carthy has played with all sorts. His reputation began when he was teamed up with fiddler Dave Swarbrick, astounding audiences. Swarbrick decided to join the first electric English folk-rock band, Fairport Convention, then Carthy went on as an early member of the second pioneering English folk-rock band, Steeleye Span. In Steeleye Span, he realised that acoustic and electric guitars are quite different. Pleased to See the King, regarded as one of the folk classics, was the first of two albums Carthy did with them before returning in 1976 for six months. Carthy then went on into the Albion Country Band, playing traditional songs and tunes with a mixed acoustic and electric band with accordion demon John Kirkpatrick. That resulted in one album, Battle of the Field, 1973. He went back to basics and singing a capella with the Watersons, featuring his wife Norma and her brother and sister. Carthy, born and bred in London, shares the family farm in Northern England with the other Watersons and their families. At some point, Carthy got bored with guitar-based folk and with Kirkpatrick, Howard Evans, Richard Chetham, and Martin Brinsford, he formed Brass Monkey, an acoustic folk group with a horn section. Carthy's innovative guitar technique has established what is now known as "English folk guitar." The strings are tuned to a chord, and Carthy uses a thumb pick and his fingertips to pick out a melody. Occasionally he strums. What results is a sweet, harmonic sound that is forceful in the bass range, yet strangely lilting. For a while, Carthy was explaining in his live showsthata great songwriter should be able to tell the story - any story, however complicated - in just three verses. He would then reproduce Hamlet into three stanzas of bawdy Cockney slang. Continued from Previous Page ROOMMAT ES GOING PLACES HAWAII Rnd. trip tix. Good 12189. Must sell. $395 or 2/$700.764-1067. Pete. SPRING AND SUMMER VACATION in Traverse Cit, on Sugar Sand Beach. 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