Gabrielle Knappenberger's Drawing Analysis

The central idea is how a seven year old girl named Shah Bibi Tarakhail found her talent after a grenade exploded on her. The grenade took most of her arm off and had been sent to the hospital. This is where Shah got her new prosthetic arm and her new talent. According to the article, with her new arm, she would quickly use it to pick up a brush and do some abstract painting. An artist named Davyd Whaley, was helping her out to do some abstract painting. In the section called "An impressive Grasp," the artist said, "She kind of has a facility for it if she wants to pursue it." Painting has helped her out since the day the grenade exploded.

Woman From Willendorf is a sculpture of a overweight woman with rather large breasts made out of limestone in the Paleolithic period back in 24000 BCE. The figurine has a very grainy surface and it appears to have been covered in a red paint at some point which has now gone away or faded. The figurine also extremely exaggerates the size of the actual female body by having oversized belly, thighs and breasts, although we cannot see the back part of the figurine I bet it has an oversized behind as well. The person who created this figurine was aiming at the creating at expressing the health and fertility of a healthy woman. A healthy woman would mean that she could take care of the offspring and ensure strong children with could help the clan

2. In "Self-Portrait With Two Pupils" Adelaide sits in a green and gold upholstered chair. She looks at the viewer a smile on her lips. She wears gold earings that disappear under her curly hair. Atop her head is a fancy hat with a blue ribbon that wraps around it and white feathers that flows over the right side of it. She wears a silky shiny blue dress. The top squared around her chest and the sleeves are rimmed with lace. A bow sits in the middle of her chest and there's one on each arm. Her dress sweeps down and pools around her on the wooden floor. It is also pressed up against the back of the chair. Her left arm comes down and lies across her lap. She holds a bunch of at least 7 paint brushes, a long utensile, and a palette. In her right hand she holds a single paint brush to the palette. In front of her is an easel and canvas. She has her foot her placed atop part of the easel. Behind her stands her two pupils. The one closest in the foregound wears a green dress with white detailing on the sleeves and chest and accessorized in her hair. She looks over Adelaide at the canvas, her left hand placed

Many scholars criticize Neiman’s work because of his splashy, kinetic, and jigsaw-like style however; these critics have failed to fully evaluate Neiman’s work. Neiman is known for capturing many split second moments such as many of Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches and other Olympic events. Receiving much scorn, Neiman’s works are often dismissed for superficiality and garish among the art world. The common misconceptions have failed to acknowledge the discrete hints that reflect the development of African Americans. Leroy Neiman's paintings capture juxtaposition between frustration and aspiration through dramatic brush strokes, contrasting portrayals of community development, and metaphorical placements symbolizing the possibility of opportunity

More lately, she has been enthuse by the Japanese kigurumi culture, whereby men and women just go out in communal dressed as life-size dolls. Simmons was actually the beneficiary of frequent awards, counting the National Endowment for the Arts Grant as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Distinguished Alumni Award at Temple University and also the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in Visual Arts,’ at The American Academy in Rome, (Nelson, V. 2012).   She is well thought-out part of The Pictures production, along with comedian like for instance Cindy Sherman as well as Barbara Kruger and also Louise Lawler.

In conclusion, after reviewing and evaluating these three pieces of art, it is plain to see that Myranda Bair had a similiar perception in mind for each of her artwork. It was clear that in Mojave Yucca, All That Glitters (Roadrunner), Desert 1, 2, 3 Myranda desired to use fundamentals, media and processes, and themes. Although she used fundamentals, media and processes, and themes onto each of the three pieces, it made it clear that each contrasted from one another. Myranda hoped for the terrariums to develop intimacy between the beholders and jog someone's memory that these critters were what occupied Southern Nevada from the beginning. In spite of the fact that, painstaking detail is found on the front of the so called mixed-medium, the

In her short story “People-Watching” from 2014, Julia Gray tells the story of Kajsa and Paul, two students who are both taking the Introduction to Drawing module at the art school of UC London. In connection with their studies they have been sent out to do some people-watching.

In this book Kiki Smith’s background is shared and broken down for the viewers to learn a different side of the artist. Allowing the readers to learn about her family and how both of her parents were also artist as well. The book also explains her work and why she chooses to reflect on the topics she created her art based

Leroy Neiman was an american artist known for painting great artwork with brightly colored acrylics. A great impressionist, Leroy created most of his paintings with the feel and flow of almost a cartoonic vibe. His art is like he took an ordinary picture and completely recreated it with a childs coloring book. Colorful, bright, yet sophisticated looking.

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.

Jennifer McCurdy’s art is about what she sees in nature. She takes the inspiration from things such as dead fish, the way light bounces off waves, the movement of dance, etc. She uses porcelain clay because of its clean, beautiful white surface and how it looks after it’s fired. Mostly all the pieces she has made have been or are functional. The sides or top of the art work is cut out to make the design on her art but, the function of a bowl or pot is still there since you can place things in them. She has been working with clay for over 30 years and has made over 140 pieces of art. The size of her art work can be 15x12x12 to 5x7x5. None of her art work is excessively large or extremely small.

While visiting The Mennello Museum of American Art in Winter Park, FL, I had the opportunity to study and admire the great folk art of Earl Cunningham. At my initial entrance into the gallery, I found the works to be very simple and initially all I could think was “ I can do this”. Cunningham acknowledges himself as a “primitive artist”, meaning an untrained or uneducated (in art), but does not recognize himself as artist. The lack of education regarding spacing and scale between objects displayed an almost childlike painting style that would not have been used if he had been educated. This resulted in what makes his artwork uniquely genius and led to a great amount of attention. As I continued through

The subject of this artwork by Rose Jaffe is a professor of ceramics at the University of Michigan. The theme explored is a professor drawn, using monoprint from a sort of bird’s eye view. This artwork is relevant to Rose Jaffe as some of the work she does is monoprinting of portraits. To work with our theme of text in art we are using monoprinting to draw out our designs with text and repetition– so this artwork is relevant to me as well. The fact that the actual drawing is quite small on the page and that Rose uses different mark making appeals to me visually. The relationship between the visual elements communicate the use of monoprinting to make aesthetically pleasing work. As this work is simplistic and their isn’t a busy composition,

In episode three of The Secret of Drawing “All in the Mind” Andrew Graham journeys around to see how art and the mind are linked together, in wonder if they are linked unconsciously or consciously. Andrew first takes us to the British Museum to talk to an artist about their work. They thought that work was self-revealing and is a way to portray self through art with the usage of light, line and our own thoughts to make art. As young children, we use to draw things that were inhibited and were used to get a sense of the world, such as mommy, daddy, familial pet and so on. The one thing that we all had in common was that the first thing we learned to draw was the human shape. The drawings were not necessarily how we adults would draw them as they were abstract and playful with no concept of how they were actually supposed to look. We are taken to an example of trying to find our inner child again through a live-model art class. In the class students could draw what they felt, how they felt, not controlled by any one style. Artists can call upon their inner selves, thoughts, feelings and etc. when drawing, when doing this they are essentially freeing themselves. These drawings could be purely artistic or full of intellectual thought. For the untrained eye, we focus on many different parts at once instead of light and shading.

The audience can also see the scuff marks on the floor, this effectively demonstrates just how much time Nina dedicates to practicing at home. As an audience, we generally know from personal experience and exposure that this is what wood looks like after it has been scratched and used excessively. From this the audience is able to interpret the extent to which this area has been used. Nina’s extensive and obsessive practice schedule has placed so much pressure and friction on the wood that her petite body was successful in wearing away the surface of the wood.