Analyzing Sue's Paintings

The Painting I chose is called “Mixtec Culture.” And it was painted by Diego Rivera in 1942, Mexico. It’s a Fresco style painting, which is “a wall painting technique that has been used for large scale murals since ancient times” (Getlein 159). This entire painting is an homage to the culture of Mexico, specifically the Mixtec people, and that’s what I love about it. The Mixtec people were renowned for their artwork so it’s fitting that Rivera depicts a peaceful community of artists such as mask and jewelry makers. This painting celebrates the artistic culture of the Mixtec people and that theme is directly linked to the political influences of the time, “Mexican government commissioned artists to create murals about Mexico itself- the glories

In this particular Artwork of Ann Hamilton, I notice that she constructs a fabricated environment that was labor intensive and it consist of humans with animals. Most of the Materials used drew my attention. According to Ann Hamilton's website, Hamilton and assistants laid 750,000 copper pennies on a honey-coated floor. Behind the pennies sat an isolated figure in plain clothes, wringing its hands over a honey filled felt hat. And behind the figure was an enclosure of grazing sheep. The pennies looked like the scales of a gigantic fish. Hamilton used a lot of materials in this installation that gives the viewer clues to the meaning of the work. For example, She used pennies; the pennies were laid by hand, by laying out the pennies it looks

Every painter has a certain style of painting, whether it's intentional to paint abstract or unintentional to paint as a modernist. I analyzed Abigail Kuchar’s artwork. She is an artist at Western Washington University. Currently, she is enrolled as a student and working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Recently, she exhibited her work in a Symbiotic Qualia, Western Gallery (group BFA Thesis Exhibition). Her ideas on visuals are very unique as compare to another artist. Her work is heavily influenced by reoccurring natural forms and patterns, representing, the specific shapes that have been successful in a variety of different applications. For example, the formation of bubbles, lichen, barnacles, anemones, spores, pollen, and seed pods, all have similar compositions. By creating work that includes these forms, the viewer is presented with something unusual, but vaguely familiar. Her material used in the artwork is environment-friendly.

Sarah Painter I think your question is how can we reach everyone because the government can't/won't/doesn't, I believe that the perfect systems involves the citizen care more for their neighbor and their friend then having the latest iphone. I think if all of us willingly gave back to the community then we can reach each one. I'm reminded of a poem/story where a a guy is tossing sand dollars back in the ocean to give them another chance at life. And a guy asks you can't reach them all before hey die and he said I can make a difference in that one's life as he tosses another back in the ocean. We can make a difference with focusing on the one we can help.

Ann Hamilton is a unique artist with aberrant set of skills. Most artist present surprise in their art work, but Hamilton has taken it a step further and presents surprise in her choice of medium. I liked how she finds the normal in abnormal. The way she takes picture with her mouth to make the picture appear more natural is simply fascinating.

Liz Larner creates art that has a presence and that shows instability. Her art is influenced by poetics. This is shown through the overlap in some sculptures as well as breakage in others. The art that she produces gives a sense of flow and completeness. Using instability as part of her work is something that brings a sense of change to her work as well as almost never using the same techniques. Her relation of her art work to real life shows her beliefs in the balance of reality and illusion.

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

For my art piece I did a recreation of the first image on the next page.This piece was by Iris Scott who is a world known finger painter. As you can tell this painting is of an older girl walking through rows of trees when the leaves are falling. I did this because I thought it was a really cute painting. My painting is a little girl walking through a path when the leaves are falling out of the trees. It was actually a really easy painting because I used a dotting type of technique. Since Iris Scott was a finger painter and I didn't want to get dirty, I got a fanned brush and dotted the painted where it was needed. I proportioned the little girl to the tree. I also used lots of color in this painting. I blended the orange, yellow and reds for

The painting I am currently doing is called Long Island Sunset by Georgia O'Keeffe. I picked this painting because It was very eye appealing. I also picked this because I think it matches my skill level in art. This was a very eye appealing to me so I stopped looked who painted it and I really liked it. This was Inspired by her surroundings, which ranged from New York City to the New Mexico hills. This painting was made in the early 1900s when she was middle aged and I really like it a lot.

Pollack’s pieces of art has caused many debates on the motion and placement of the lines. Jackson Pollack is one of my favorite artist so when I saw this painting I looked at it in a completely different view then I have in the past. Pollack uses only lines in this piece, mostly curved and length varies. The colors used in this painting are neutral, this also has darker values. When looking at this piece it makes me wonder the colors are easy to stare at and complement each other well. All the lines are overlapping, showing negative space. This also makes me feel that the texture would be lifted and rough due to the overlapping of multiple lines.

In the painting titled “Post Apocalypse” by an unknown artist it falls under a landscape painting. There is no sort of balance in this painting, all of the colors look bland and boring and have no depth to them. The only thing that remotely catches my eyes when I look at the painting is the birds flying, but that’s really it. Looking at the painting it’s hard to tell if there is water in the distance or you’re looking at the blue sky. In this painting the main emphasis that I see is the dead two dead trees painted in the front that are almost identical. Another point of emphasis I see in the painting is the birds flying into the distance. The reason they can be a point of emphasis is because they are rather large for being far away and very

The artifact I chose from Humans of New York websites represents the relationship between two old and lovely couples. Most of works in the website is from the street portraits and photographers took pictures world widely. The picture’s present location is Branson, Missouri. The background of this picture is extremely colorful representation of two old couples are harmonious and affectionate. The old couple is the main focus of this photo. The use of this background with warm colors throughout the whole photo represents the comfort and warm, which set off this very lovely couple as well.

The artists I picked is Angelica Kaufmann. The piece chosen is Torn Between Music and Painting done in 1792. She was one of the few artists that I found that was a female in a male dominating time.

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This artwork named Untitled #223 by Cindy Sherman shows the theme of motherhood. In this artwork, we see a woman who’s breastfeeding her child and this part of motherhood is a special bond between a mother and its child.The work of Cindy Sherman is created with images that exude emotion and function as an exploration of the stereotypes we recognize in society, (MindEdge, 2016). In modern times, a woman’s breasting in public without covering her breast has become so controversial over the years. Society has shaped motherhood to be something “proper” but in some cultures, women are openly breastfeeding. The virgin Mary artwork that you chose is also controversial because the breast all out. In most cases, the Virgin Mary is depicted as a white