THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 21, 1995 TAG: 9505190236
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Cover Story
LENGTH: Short : 50 lines
The Mona Lisa is wearing a new piece of jewelry - a funky necklace with the number 25 inscribed on it.
The same number suddenly pops up in the street of Edvard Munch's painting, ``The Scream.''
And there it is again - 25 - strategically placed on an Ingres nude, on a Picasso and a van Gogh.
Sound like some weird symbolism in an artist's nightmare?
Not at all. It's just artist Darrell J. Craig's design for a 25th anniversary T-shirt for the Seawall Art Show.
Look closely, and you'll see at least five more ``25s'' on the T-shirt that depicts a different master painter in each of nine blocks.
``It's like cartoon-style, but it's not a cartoon,'' said Craig, a drawing instructor at the Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center. ``It's a drawing of the paintings, only lightly done to reflect all the different masters.''
Craig won a $300 prize for the design. Additionally, his $125 entry fee to participate in the Seawall Art Show will be waived. Craig plans to display watercolors and drawings at the show.
About 150 shirts, which will sell for $12 each, were ordered for the show.
The Olde Towne resident won the same T-shirt competition last year. His 1994 shirt showed the Seawall Art Show as it would look from the sky.
It showed ``all the little tents and the boats and all the little artists and all the little streets right into Olde Towne and even a couple homes,'' said Craig.
``I even had a little dolphin jumping out of the water. And Portside was there with the little tent.''
Craig said he ``played around'' with a few different concepts for this year's T-shirt before he decided on the master painters.
``This one just kind of worked,'' he said.
- REBECCA A. MYERS MEMO: [For related stories, see microfilm of The Currents for this date.]
ILLUSTRATION: Preliminary drawing, called the rough, will be used to
screenprint T-shirts that will be for sale.
by CNB