Alexa Meade: Painting Analysis

Olivia Parker is an American Photographer whose work is influenced by still-life paintings. Her subjects

I’m also going to be talking about Sally Morgan’s (1989) “Greetings from Rottnest” artwork, Sally Morgan artist herself, and her use of elements and principles of art in “Greetings from Rottnest”.

It seemed to amaze her how they could tell her how they did theirs, but wouldn’t teach her how it’s actually done. All her paintings came from her traveling experience. I remember her saying how the clouds looked solid as she looked up and just imagined. She lived until she was 90, she died of old age. I admired the fact where she talked about how early she would wake up and what time she would be back after being out working as an artist because it showed how dedicated she was to her craft. There was a time when her drawings were put up in a museum without her knowing and she found out from someone else and got down to the bottom of

Ms. Goodman had always wanted to work with children. She started at the University of Mississippi as an art major. She decided to change her major to education with the hopes of being a special education teacher focusing on art therapy.

Alexa’s interest in photography and the work she created last semester was amazing. The portraits and figure studies were quite ingenious. The compositions, formats and themes were successfully interwoven

Kathy creates paintings of landscapes that she has seen personally first hand and choses to paint on sight. She’ll either finish the painting on sight or take photos of the sight and do a quick outline of the landscape in tempera paint on paper. She brings back her sketches and photographs back to her studio and finishes the

was a pioneer and led the way for future female painters to have the courage to become

I did take time to look at some of her other art work online which I found

While there are many accomplished artists, of all mediums, who are a part of this art movement, I was drawn to one more than any other. Her name is Clara McDonald Williamson (1875-1976). Clara, referred to as Aunt Clara, in the art world, was a Native Texan who tapped into her memory for her inspiration. Her chosen medium was oils

She usually works from photographs. In the case of Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana singer who killed himself in 1994, she used images from a commemorative issue of Rolling Stone. I ask if she has had the chance to meet her idols - those who are still around - and paint them from life. "I don't really separate those pictures out," she says, with a hint of impatience. "I don't call them 'rock star paintings'. I think of it more like people who make things." So why not paint welders or carpenters? "There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings. Whatever was in Liam Gallagher's voice, I wanted to capture - more than how he looked."

Her face gives little away about her emotions or feelings yet she boldly renders herself in such shocking paintings of herself. She does this intentionally to give a sense of

However, it is amazing to see how clean and symmetrical all the pieces of work are. It is almost hard to believe that someone made these with their own hands and not manufactured. When looking at most artwork you can imagine the type of person wo created and maybe get a sense of their personality. But with Eliza Au’s work, I couldn’t get a sense of her personality or individuality. Although the art gallery wasn’t a big room it still seemed empty. I expected there to be more art but that may be because it is a free exhibit or because each piece takes a long time to make. All the works had repetition, therefore if you saw a part of a work, you basically saw the whole thing. Overall Eliza Au’s work is calculated, organized, and well

This shows her early use of symbolisms in her paintings. Another work would be If Adelita... or The Peaked Caps which is a painting of the several members from the Cachuchas around a table and their different personalities. These early paintings were not only her first attempts of painting but symbolized her beginning as an artist (Kettenmann 11 and 12).

As Simone is also a graduate of Visual arts, her take on her designs are artwork that are often inspired by ornaments and pattern designs or nature inspired detailing that she seeks interest in.

These pieces of art are expressions of an artist’s inner thoughts and emotions. Paying actors to play these street artists would change the tone for the entire movie. The art and motions of the street artists would not be as authentic as it is with the real people. No actor in the world is good enough to portray the street artist, than the real street artist them self. So having the real artists be in the film does not create room for poor representations of themselves.