Jade Walker Four Cornered Analysis

How can art make an audience listen? Sonny Assu sets a prime example of getting a viewer 's attention, in his piece “The Away Teams Beams Down to What Appears to be Unlimited Planet,”2016 displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The following writing will talk about Sonny Assu as an artist and the social historical context of the work.

The spatial orientation of the piece relative to the room gives the piece a sense of gravity. When viewers move onto the next piece , they would walk around it's space. However, the consequence of the shape being that of a table pulls viewers to sit around it. This creates interaction between both viewer and art piece and at the same time, a relationship between the two. "Difficulty, then, arises

Since its founding, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has been exhibiting and collecting works by contemporary artists. They have an ever-expanding collection of 20th- and 21st-century art that I had the pleasure of viewing, following its remodel in 2012. In addition to the permanent collection, a new innovative experience called the Black Box gallery introduces a new way of viewing the works of contemporary artists. The Black Box allows the viewer not only to see the work in a new way, playing with light but also hear and experience images in motion. The exhibit I went to see was curated by Kristen Hileman, the senior curator of contemporary art, and it features two screen-based works as opposed to displaying one as it usually does. The two artists featured were Kara Walker and Hank Willis Thomas.Within their works, both artists discuss the feeling and experiences associated with being black in America, specifically the historical significance of the legacy of slavery.

With the sculpture straight ahead, the audience sees a profile view of the scene; however, the artist created the sculpture with enough space and depth to be able to view the front of the woman’s face from a side angle. The artist created the seated woman with much detail; her nose, chin, slightly opened mouth, pronounced brow line and inset eyes show this. She reaches for the chest with her right arm in a very delicate manner as her left arm lays on the throne for support.

“Tomorrow you are going to present your sculpture to the world! How do you feel right now?” Said the news lady. “ It’s nerve racking to think that the whole world is going to be counting on ME to make the sculpture of the year!” Replied Joel Waul. “So,is it complete?” “ To be honest, no.” Said Waul. “ Well, we’ll come by next week to check in next week to see how it’s coming! Bye!”

In John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing,” he shares his view on how he feels art is seen. Mr. Berger explores how the views of people are original and how art is seen very differently. By comparing certain photographs, he goes on to let his Audience, which is represented as the academic, witness for themselves how art may come across as something specific and it can mean something completely different depending on who is studying the art. The author goes into details of why images were first used, how we used to analyze art vs how we do today, and the rarity of arts. He is able to effectively pass on his message by using the strategies of Rhetoric, which include Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.

I believe that the artist is expressing himself when he is creating a painting, sculpture, drawing, etc. I also believe that art can be interpreted in many ways. One way that I thought an artist was able to express the way he thinks was through a drawing that was created by Otto Dix’s drawing Krigeskruppel (War Cripples). The time that Dix created this piece was the time of World War 1 (pg 40.) Dix was able to first see the effect that the war was having on soldiers. The drawing contains four men walking, to what seems to be downtown. The leader of the four men is smoking a large cigar and is needed the support of a cane because he is missing an arm and both of his legs, the next is man is also missing a leg and supporting himself by a cane.

The black lines that seem to frame the woman into a sort of foreground are also present in the implied background, thus melding them into a singular seemingly flat space. The blending of large areas of color leave the space open, and the intent lines of color are the only implication of space or form. “Space is made ambiguously expansive by means of the slight blurs and partial erasures in and around the figures,” (Ashton). This juxtaposition of open and defined spaces easily mirrors the wily nature of women to contain some sort of depth, while at the same time being of shallow character. Lewison makes note of this contrast saying of the woman that, “she is self-consciously seductive, challenging the male to approach while at the same time remaining aloof,” (146). Although there is an understood figure and a somewhat implied background, the work still has the ability to be flat at one glance and especially deep upon another.

The author helps the reader view the character and settings throughout the book by using various techniques. For instance, the author Chetan Bhagat uses imagery to illustrate the setting and characters. For instance, He uses imagery to show the current phase he is in and tries to illustrate a picture in the reader’s mind of the therapist’s office. This is evident when it states “certificates from the top U.S. universities adorned the walls like the tiger heads in a hunter’s home”. This shows that the author uses the technique imagery to show how the office looks like in the inside and what he is experiencing. The author is trying to show that he is in a therapist office that is well respected and a master in her field. Another technique the

Filled with shades of red, the upper part of the painting comes to create a strong opposition with the black area below it, itself encircled by a darker red. This painting consisting of three floating rectangles in various colour combinations, creates a sombre mood conducive to spiritual contemplation. With the use of Rothko's saturated colours the viewers are moved

Walker decided to use the style of symbolism to describe that Sofia’s and Celie’s bad experience, and the rips of the curtains are not all the same to each others, just like how a quilt has different types of pieces, patterns, and so, she displayed them into this masterpiece they worked on

Motherwell also well known as an abstract artist who mainly use his minimal geometric shapes to convey symbolized meanings to the viewers. He filled his huge canvas only with the three bold rectangles and threes organic unperfected circles. And all the shapes connected together horizontally so there is no gap between them. Seeing his painting, compare with other gorgeous and magnificent artworks done by other artists, one might wonder what is so special about it. But when we focus on these most simplified shapes that filled with only black color, creating a sense of calmness, in which takes us into Motherwell’s inner mind to feel the his misery. Circles have no beginning and end. In Motherwell’s artwork, the three unperfected circles which

In the other hand a cleaning duster. If the viewer is standing right in front of the sculpture, her gaze seems to be straightforward. Staring right at the observer. There’s also a sense of motion, as if she is going to step right to you. She might have something to say, her voice might want to be heard. She has a hopeless and overworked look on he face. It’s evident that she has been working hard because of the sweat on her body. Her mouth isn’t open while she works she is silent. The sculpture embodies the working class, the people who endure manual labor to serve the wealthy. It’s a social commentary of how the working class is not heard. These people are the 1%. They are what we call “the other”. These people are usually the victims of marginalization. The sculpture represents the American dream. How you can achieve your goals if you work hard enough. But that isn’t always true. Its part of the system. Generally you are born into the

Walker’s art is therefore an entirely new genre with this Brechtian lens, serving as a form of epic art rather than simply epic theatre or political art. Through the objectification and therefore alienation of her subjects with regards to the audience, Walker appears to be inciting a drive towards activity, be it a simple acknowledgment of her themes or the creation of a spark for activism. Through the historically

Peter Lipman-Wulf was a German artist from the 1900s. He was from the Abstract movement which is a form of art that is expressive and portrays emotion in sometimes conceptual ways. One of his pieces, Oh, everyone was surrounded by a maze of voices, #5 is an abstract work of red and black ink drawing depicting human-like figures encompassed by branches. They stand in a circular form with their arms raised above their heads, seeming to be in misery. An immense amount of emotion and meaning exudes this work. Wulf’s Oh, everyone was surrounded by a maze of voices, #5 coveys a meaning that humankind will always be surrounded by a variety of voices that will meddle with one’s emotions and state of being.