Distortion In Art Analysis

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

Yayoi Kusama’s life long work is an exploration of her depersonalization syndrome. Using polka dots as a representation of her own self-obliteration, universe and body cells her hallucinations and obsessional images are reflected on various mediums of paintings and sculptures (Grady T. Turner, Yayoi Kusama). Although her works are primarily known for the use of repetitive dots, pumpkins and the Infinity Mirror Room, Kusama’s belief in art is not only about self expression but also reflects political and humanitarian issues too. Yayoi Kusama allows her audience to step into her

Marcel Duchamp stated that "It was his achievement to treat the camera as he treated the paintbrush, as a mere instrument at the service of the mind” (Biography.com, 2017). In addition, the photogram might seem expressive and abstract, yet on the contrary, it is the precise medium to document the everyday objects in an unrepeatable and somehow uncontrollable way. The artist cannot predict how the selected objects will be recorded under the light sources that were tampered with. From the first glance, the image completely dissociated from its original subject, allowing one’s memory to fill the gap. Yet below its surface, the image is an accurate documentation that captured a moment of psychical intensity. It revealed a new visual experience, using objects in the simplest way. One can say that the use of this medium disclosed reality more preciously due to its invisibility and mysterious representation (The Museum of Modern Art, 2017).

The young, innocent, promising lives of our past drive emotions through artistic expressions that can be displayed though many outsources. Upon our day to view the art gallery, I entered the gallery feeling apprehensive that I would view any piece of art that I found relatable or even one that I found any interest in. I was wrong in my assumptions and found a beautiful painting named “Console” by Barlow Palminteri. Tasked with describing what the painting looks like, what it means to me, as well as my overall connection with the painting is what I’ll discuss within this paper. The painting’s colors, sizes, shapes, and artistic aspects drew me into its beauty and torment. Likewise, the painting reminded me of my youth that roused many different

When we enter the Spencer Museum, we were brought to different locations in museum to review five pieces of art works. After much consideration, I personally chose “Haunted by the Ghost of Our Own Making” by Hollis Sigler as the central theme of my essay. Like many other abstract canvas in the museum, “Haunted by the Ghost of Our Own Making” is not necessary the most powerful in conveying its message to the audience without artwork description provided by the museum or a narrator, as compare to other pieces like Above Ground Movement by the Young Female Activists who captured photographs with meaningful and relatable events.

In this essay, I will discuss the main point of the video, what I have gained from it, and why I think it’s a learning tool. Tomaselli pieces are solely based off of perspective. The objective to his artwork is to stimulate the audience’s mind in a way that the brain can generate feeling and emotion from their own outlook. Tomaselli initiates perspective to his pieces by using figure ground space and warm colors.

I have been to the Frist many times, but this past experience was different. One exhibit, named Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, fully captivated me and with each piece I was more intrigued. This collection of artwork was organized by Frist Center Chief Curator Mark Scala and includes many different contemporary artists echoing similar themes. The gallery explores the idea of unseen forces that make up our essence and illustrates connections between mind, body, and soul.

This is a Book that entails Kiki Smith’s never-seen images. The artist (Kiki Smith) gives insight to how her work was processed. And how she was moved in the direction, as far as scheme of colors and so forth. Allowing viewers to have a vivid eye on how and why she did the things she did when taking her

His artwork explores the relationship between creativity, cognition, and supernatural experience through the mediums of writing, drawing, screenprinting, sound sculpture, acrylic vinyl, plexiglass, light, and sound—often co-opting non-traditional fine art mediums such as blacklight paint as a visual cues for intangible concepts such as the "the otherworldly".

The mood of this art was without a doubt, intense, suspenseful, thrilling, and fast-paced. On pieces like “Halloween”, composed by John Carpenter, “The Shining”, composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, or “Jaws”, composed by John Williams, all respectively, there is a heightened sense of awareness and a feeling uneasiness. I certainly found myself sitting at the edge of my seat, possibly casting a glance from side to side, reliving the childhood fears of monsters under my bed, or in this case, theatre

Intro Text: Society, As Told Through Still Life is an exhibit of works that aim to portray different facets of life through the use of objects. Since the conception of photography in the 1830s, the use of people and the landscapes in which people reside are often used to depict human life. However, the use of found objects in still life are seen in certain themes, such as the vanitas, a Dutch genre of painting that embodies the use of objects to showcase death and the inevitability of change. This exhibit features work that uses still life to convey motifs ever-present in human existence. These motifs range from ideas that mimic the familiar and perennial vanitas genre, to ideas of contemporary phantoms that plague people today. Objects that

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.

In this painting a group of men appear to be lost at sea. The sky and waves indicate that they are in the middle of a storm; in addition, the wooden raft looks as though it has endured a lot of hardship during the course of their journey.The men are piled up on top of each other in a shape of a pyramid. Some of the men are clothed while others are either halfway clothed or not clothed at all. There are approximately five men dead on this raft and others trying to look for help. At the top of the pyramid two men are holding up shirts trying the gain the attention of something in the background. In doing this all their backs are facing the viewer of the painting except for an older man slouching over a dead crew member.

Imagine this: you are walking across a field, your feet feel the damp soil beneath you, the gentle breeze moves the grass beads in unison raising your spirits as you stare at the endless horizon which is out of reach. Looking at Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” invokes similar emotions in us. Paintings have always had the effect of appealing to senses beyond just sight: they appeal to our emotions and all our other senses. We wish to share this “sublime” natural world and depart from our own. We wish we in habited this space and shared in its beauty alongside this woman.

The use of geometric shapes in this painting allows the subject to be viewed in both a recognizable and unrecognizable state at the same time. Overall, geometric shapes and patterns play an essential role in what the viewer sees, which is further supported by a powerful color palate.