Clara Williamson The Family Room

quote from her about her work, "Mine is a quiet exploration— a quest for new meanings in color,

Sylvia Taylor is an artist/collector who resides in the Valley Arts District in Orange, NJ. Inspired by the burgeoning craft movement of the 1970s, Sylvia attended California College of Arts and Crafts and studied fiber arts, moving into jewelry and metal work later on. Having collected crafts for many years, she started collecting artwork because she was surrounded by so many amazing artists. The first painting in her collection was by an artist who shared her Norwegian heritage and acquired by trading her studio jewelry for the painting. Finding herself more drawn to Abstract Expressionism and contemporary art over time, today Sylvia focuses her collection on non-representational art, often with elements of texture or found objects.

Del Kathryn Barton has been a very successful artist. Having won The Archibald Prize twice with Hugo Weaving and a self portrait and her children.

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”.

This painting is a portrait of an old woman who is sitting on a chair while facing to the left. She is wearing a yellow flower dress with a beige jacket while sitting in an empty room. Her beauty is illustrated by her curly, gray hair and also her wrinkled face, neck, and hands. These details is what makes her look real and pure. I like how detailed it is because it reminds me of my grandmothers.

One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.

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

In the story, a family heirloom becomes a conflict because while Dee wants to take the quilt to decorate her home, Maggie would make better use of the quilts by using them instead of framing them. This quilt that has been passed down from generation to generation, is symbolic of the love that both the older generations and the present generation has for each other. The quilt also symbolizes the strength of the family and the stitching is symbolic of the bonds that hold a family together. Mama ultimately decides that the quilt will go to Maggie because Dee does not understand the practicality of the quilt which is that they were from pieces of clothes that were lived in, which represented their past. Alice Walker was also emphasizing that it is the woman in the family that have held and currently hold families together by depicting closeness of the female relationships.

In today's societies, people avoid drastic change by staying along their morals and beliefs, and dissociating or segregating anyone inside them who does not fall into the standard. A similar philosophy on societies can be appreciated in the intriguing short story, “The Welcome Table for Sister Clara Ward”. This thought-provoking story is written by Alice Walker, an African American novelist and poet, who bases the plot on the immense segregation that once took place in the United States. In the story, Sister Clara Ward is segregated from her Christian church and her society as a result of a difference in skin color and class. Through Sister Clara Ward’s alienation from the Christian Church due to her race and social status in “The Welcome Table for Sister Clara Ward,” Alice Walker utilizes the citizen’s judgemental comments to display the society’s strongly believed but primitive assumptions of blacks as well as their indisputable superiority over lower classes.

The conflict between the personalities and lifestyles of the narrator’s two daughters is especially noticeable in their valuation of the quilts. To Wangero, the quilts, as well as the butter churn and bench, are aesthetic and historical in their value. She and her husband are celebrating their people’s heritage, and in doing this Wangero finds the possessions of her family to fit her artistic ideal. Having left home for a broader

My experience to the Dallas Museum of Art was a bit different from the last time I had attended the museum. I was curious to see what pieces of art there would be and if it would be the same as the previous visit which was long ago, but to me all the pieces of art were so different and very interesting. It may have been because I saw all the pieces in a new perspective since learning about the different types of paintings there can be and knowing how and where sculptures come from. Even though I do not know much of art I really gave it a try into seeing what the artist may have wanted us to get out of his work. By reading a view of the chapters made me aware of art, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but it was actually nice knowing that a

She further analyzed many artworks based on the process of toning. Though some artists paint with one layer, those that paint with multiple layers enhances the objects in the painting. The color that appears on the surface underwent multiple shades in order to obtain the desirable color. After analyzing Ship Carpenter at His Hobby, 1872, Helena’s second group approached the artwork Women Embroidering, 1904. Two differences I distinguished from the comparison of these two artworks are the time period as well as the visual context. I had paid less attention to the story behind this portrait because there was less detail. Women Embroidery, though looked unique because of its lack of details (which could have been intentional), did not have much space. Helena described it as “flat.” She infers that as time period increases, artists were becoming more focused on flatness, painting on the surface and ignoring the layers of tone and landscape space. Another artwork that we analyzed was the Back Surgery. Dating back to the 1600s, this portrait was created with underpaintings and a few touch ups. It could be inferred that the artist intended to leave the underpainting in order to bring out the procedure. On the surface lies a realistic, colored curtain that seemed to have been drawn by the audience, and staring straight at the artist/audience was the patient. With these observations, I

Another interesting component Sargent implemented in his portrait is his attention to detail where one of the daughter has her arms hidden behind her back suggesting that she (or her family) is hiding something. It is difficult to truly understand the meaning of the painting without the context and history of the artist – when looking at the work’s history we are able to see that when Sargent was originally sought out by Edward Darley Boit and in his commission, he decided to create something that was different from the traditional portrait scene. According to the mfa.org regarding Sargent’s unique perspective on the portrait it is revealed that the family was disconnected in their relations. The daughter’s strange spacing and similar clothing in the image further alludes to the idea that even though the daughters of the family are “connected” in reality there are a lot of differences that are unaccounted

There are three themes that are used throughout the reading which are; love, beauty, and death. The most important theme in this story would be beauty. When the husband gets so attached to his art work he forgets about the beautiful wife he has of his own and only thinks about the beauty of this portrait. Love is also showed in this story but by the wife. The wife is so in love with her husband she is willing to do anything and everything to make her husband happy. Which is not getting in the away of him painting his picture. The last theme would be death even though this is a major theme it comes last. After the husband not realizing the actual beauty and love the

The first mother that we will be examining is depicted in a painting that employs subdued or darkened earth-tone hues in order to represent a simple, rural, and natural lifestyle. The viewer of this image is able to discern a rural landscape in the background in addition to a large tree in the upper right foreground, which all indicate an agriculturally