Miranda July 'Throughout Love Diamond'

The artist that I decided to research was Lee S. Ivey. She was great at making sculptures. She did oil painting and drawings as well. Her paintings were amazing. However, I’m more fascinated with her sculptures because they’re so different and they tell a story. She even have a piece called “Deaf President Now”, which is currently on display at Gallaudet University. Pieces like this really shows how she was part of the Deaf community, and how she saw the talent and aspirations of the community. I like the mysteriousness of her art and how it causes you to wonder what emotions she was feeling when she created the piece, and what the message was that she was trying to convey. All of her pieces seem to have some kind of message. For example,

The scope of the creative experience was influenced mainly by Patricia March as her ideas influenced the idea of charcoal and ink drawings, as well as left-hand techniques. Her works allowed the exploration of new mediums and techniques, of which I had not used before. March also played a big role in influencing visual diary work and the direction of which I took when researching other artists.

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”.

Literature can be a powerful tool for social change. Red Rooms by Cherie Dimaline is about the weaving of indigenous stories through the common element that they were patrons of an urban hotel. The narrator, Naomi, works as a housekeeper at the hotel and imagines the past, present and future existence of the patrons by what they left behind. Dimaline shows how indigenous histories and knowledge operate, in that they are not linear, and they do not have a definite beginning or an end. The novel subtly shows the need for an Indigenous resurgence, but the book itself is an act of resurgence because it shows the importance of indigenous literature. This paper will argue that Red Rooms itself acts as an act of indigenous resurgence

Their individual perspectives in life ultimately shaped their education, experiences and overall point of view. This essay will outline the similarities and differences in subject matter, tone and imagery of these two artists’ bodies of work.

I choose Elizabeth Catlett as my artist of choices because I really love her work and to me her art is like seeing her world back in the early 1900, which reminds me of my great grandmother’s stories of how she live and what she lived through. It has inspired my own work as I coutuon my journey in expanding my knowledge about the different forms, styles and people to help me shape my own artistic personality.

One artwork that I have chosen to write about is Harriet Tubman by Aaron Douglas. I have selected this artwork because I am drawn to its color. In addition, I have a strong admiration for the subject matter. Looking at this artwork relaxed me and made me feel at peace as I was emotionally hypnotized by the color green. Even after looking at this artwork for a prolonged period of time, my admiration for it did not change. This artwork seems to represent freedom and being at peace.

For this weeks artist, we were asked to summarise the information provided to us based on the artist, Tracey Moffatt, and research other information to include in the summary. We then had to gather four images of her artworks and write comments on them including, our thoughts, opinions and other general statements about the image. Another requirement of the two week task, was writing about what we personally thought our chosen series produced by Moffatt was about, and also including a short 200 word paragraph on what image we would add to the series and why. The last task was to create an artwork based on Tracey Moffatt’s style of art.

One of the pieces that really stood out to me was the one called Tidal Datum. The data that she has chosen helps create a form that looks like the waves of the twenty-nine days of a full lunar cycle and this reveals the patterns of the tides of the Bay Area. She made it out of flat-bar steel and it is framed within the structure of a walnut table. She had to go through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Online Historic Tide Database in order to gather all this data. The subject of the piece is that she it is showing us all of the multiple tides that have occurred and this creates a piece with a lot of movement, that carries your eye throughout the whole thing. For the content, she is interested in how we study tides

I like a lot of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings because they all have very bright colors and they really stand out. They also have very smooth textures. The colors blend really well

When I was assigned this project I had a hard time choosing an artist. I really do not know much about influential artists so I was pretty lost. I thought I would chose someone everyone knew about like Picasso. But they did not meet the criteria for the artist we were supposed to chose and I would not have a lot to say about them besides the obvious that everyone knew. I realized that I did not have too much to say about them. I needed to write five pages about a artist. The artist I chose would have to be someone more interest , someone I could relate to someone's work who inspired or influenced me. I did a lot of research and I stumbled upon Kara Walker.

The piece that stood out to me is The Appeal” by Erica Daborn because of the simple black and white color. The first thing I noticed was the animals behind a wall or in some kind of cage while on the other side people are holding empty bowls. The people were asking the animals for food but there is also a lady with fox skin on her shoulders. The Mural was made with charcoal on a canvas and has many details in the texture of the animals and people. Daborn’s contrast on this mural makes it stand out, as well as the size of the canvas. She did very little of the landscape in the background so that people would look for the meaning instead of the beauty. On the plague next to the painting it mentions that it is a part of the Dialogues with Mother

I also selected the Vogels for my discussion for the same reasons you listed. It was quite inspirational to read about the amount of quality of art the couple were able to collect with a limited budget. Additionally, I also felt that by not worrying about the prestige of the artist, they were inadvertently able to expose those unknown artists to a wider

The most interesting piece of artwork that I had the chance to come across in this course was Bernini’s sculpture of St. Teresa De Avila. I have taken many art classes throughout my time as a college student, but I enjoyed this sculpture immensely because it is a piece that had the ability to touch my heart, mind, and soul. The three elements that inhibited me to choose this painting was the emotions displayed by the figures, the intricate details, and the overall message innocence and beauty that the art depicts.

The first artist in the exposition is Hannah Alpha. Born in Egypt, she’s a McGill alumni who uses the minimalism style of painting, which is the art of using simplistic design to create maximum impact. The paintings grab your attention due to their abstractness. However they fail to portray the artist’s meaning. Her collection, called “La danse cosmique” (The cosmic dance), is her search to “attain a state of supreme