Muniz's Art Analysis

Upon arrival at the MacLaren exhibition center in Barrie Ontario, I was very surprised to be surrounded unusual art that have been all created by Canadian artists. Their was a wooden granary on the floor resembling world war 2 and and some unique maps that were written in words. Many of their painting and sculptures resembled to the history of Canada going back towards the first nations and both world wars. The MacLaren Art Centre has been made to honour Maurice MacLaren, a famous artist who bequest Throughout looking at every piece, you could see the messages they portray to the audience and how much of impact it has within our canadian history. Approaching an interesting piece, it was Bison skulls skillfully fabricated together by exhaust parts, stacked high like a mountain.

If you look at the paintings in the background of this picture you see that they are very expression based. Overall the figures of the museum worker is naturalistic to me. He seems to have a very naturalistic body frame and expression. He is in kind of a contorted contraposto stance with relaxed shoulders and varying his weight instead of just being very rigid and stiff. The paintings in the background are different kinds of pieces. You see three different frames of artwork and then a sculpture all of the paintings on the wall are looking at the museum worker and faced towards him except the sculpture. This makes them have a more naturalistic feel as if they are alive by just watching every move he is making. To me that makes him the focal point of his whole piece. The sculpture in this piece is faced away from the museum worker in very fluid movement as if the museum worker could be following this sculpture if she were actually

Paddock is known for many different art media fields such as sculptor, graphic design, and furniture designer. I was inspired, however, by his paintings and knew of him through those as well. I chose to recreate one of Ewing Paddock's paintings from the London Underground series. I was inspired by his works because each of them are unique and diverse. Paddock’s paintings also interested me because they were all recently painted. He started the London Underground series in 2009 and it took him three years to complete 25 canvases, painting around 70 people. In each of his paintings you can see the emotion that the person is giving off which is one reason I enjoy them. All 25 of the canvas are super interesting to look and see the different characters

The piece that I am analyzing is an untitled work of pin striping on aluminum by two local artists, ModKustoms and Tanner Leaser, who signs his pieces simply as “Tanner”. As with most artists in this genre neither goes by their real or whole name. ModKustoms created the textured aluminum panel that Tanner used as his form to display his pin stripping. This piece was created in 2014 for a charity art auction benefitting the Scottish Rite Hospital (ModKustoms). The piece is a two-dimensional, rectangular work of art meant to hang vertically on a wall. This piece was created using aluminum, translucent candied enamel paint, and 1-one shot lettering enamel (Tanner).

This Artwork has a representational style because the artist is talking about The Vietnam war that happened and he lived through that. I believe it's representational because the war that he's talking about in this artwork happened in real life. There was a lot of wars going on during his time alive and he was able to see them. He wanted to show us how he saw the Vietnam war through his eyes in this painting. In this artwork, I see a bunch of the color red and pink throughout the whole painting representing that there's a lot of blood distributed since he stated that in the wars that he saw there was a ton of blood everywhere. There's also a bunch of texture in this painting when you look closely it looks like there are chunks of plaster on the surface all over the artwork. Another visual element that I saw was very similar pattern on the trees as well as the people they're very similar in the way that they're shaped.

He recreates many popular arts and photographs by using materials like chocolate syrup. I think he wants to create new ways to represent arts differently but beautifully. Many of his works are related to social issue like children labors and collectors in Brazil. Muniz intentionally arises these social issues in front of the public and causes people’s concerns on them through his arts.

His other noticeable work is Shadow man, which is similar to his Image Mass Murder where is splashes paint on the ground but instead of it around a chalked out outline it is brushed in the shape of a silhouetted. These images were created in different areas that would make the pedestrians have the most impact when they saw it, which was around corners and in dark alleys. Most of these pieces were in New York city but later expanded to some parts of Europe, including both sides of The Berlin Wall before it was torn down.

Shepard Fairey’s piece titled Pay Up or Shut Up is a representation of the role that money or your role in society dictate the power of your speech. This piece of art by Fairey was released in May of 2015. It is a screen print on cream speckletone paper.

The painting work done by C. Bertram Hartman was the first piece of art I observed inside the Dallas Museum. This painting, completed in 1930, consists of a campanile-type tower, most likely a representation of a historic skyscraper (Walker 73). The painting applies a fractured perspective blended on an urban look with muted color palettes accompanied by harsh shadows (MacDonald & Brettell 117). The painting is a reflection of the dynamism and energetic expansion of the current New York City. The geometrical arrangement of the buildings in the painting resemble the current scenes witnessed in New York, championing a fast pace and a

Both of the elderly women are huddled together, lightly patting themselves, just as if they were cold. The elderly women both peek out, as if they were suspicious of something. You can look at the sculpture from different angles, like a 360 degree angle, you’ll be able to see the detailed properties that the sculpture consists of. The craftsmanship does add significant effect to how we look at the sculpture. Half of Mueck’s artworks are reduced in size, just like this particular artwork, which is only 82.6 x 48.7 x 41.5cm, while other half artworks created by Mueck are very increased in size, like one called “A Girl” which is 110.0 x 501.0 x 134.5cm. Mueck’s figurative sculptures, all explore the themes of birth through ageing and to death. Mueck has never made life like sculptures, he says “I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day”.

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.

The mythological creature that I found in the museum was a griffin. Architectural panels, Roman, Imperial period, AD 193-235, Marble. A griffin is half eagle and half lion. The creature was the focal point of the work. It has a large tail that had leaves coming off of it. It’s front paw was in the air. The griffin was on a panel that was decorated around the border. The first border was a pattern of two diamonds and then one oval repeating. The second border was a circle with cut outs repeating all the way around the panel. The third border had pieces missing on the top. The border was an u with a line down the middle, below that was the repeating pattern of two diamonds and then an oval. The left side of the panel did not have any border.

I believe I was more drawn to why this artist did this type of art and why it’s considered art. At first look, his paintings look like a child or children had a blast with paint. No rhythm or method and the lines and brush strokes going to nowhere. Then I really started looking his paintings in the last few years of his life. He was bolder with his colors. I think he felt free and no so repressed, not lead to have to produce art. Even though in the movie it showed he battled alcohol and turned to art as a released but he was reined in by an agent, and then heavily criticized by the art world. When he appeared to be drinking again he painted without restraint. His paintings at first seemed to be rejected because they or he was not understood as an artist and at the time the world of art of Regionalism and Social Realism was what artists were viewing and creating. Jackson Pollack was living during World War II, in his earlier paintings he makes reference to this war. And later there was the Great depression and he had mother son issues from his childhood. I think he embraced the changes and went with what he felt he needed to express and so he became a known artist as a new Abstract Expressionist. I believe once he explained where the paintings came from is when the art world embraced his creations. These creations came right in the mist of World War II and into the aftermath and a new error of the fabulous fifties, when the

Klein´s art emerged from serious circumstances. France in the late 1940s was still nation traumatized by World War II. The cultural center of gravity had moved across the Atlantic to New York. The artists who remained in Paris, or at least the good ones, were producing post-apocalyptic work, and out of the same rubble came the much younger Klein.

As an artist, I exemplify innovation and continuous improvement because it is absolutely essential to my work. Drawing materials are often pricy and I cannot afford to pay for such specialized items, so I must form an alternate solution from what I have. My innovation can be seen when I create makeshift graphite blenders from copy paper and pallet knives from plastic utensils. Moreover, I like to experiment art with different mediums. I have drawn on cardboard with only white and black markers, splashed charcoal sketches with water, formed giant feathered wings sculptures from paper scraps, and even pieced together a sculpture out of battered metal eating utensils. By blending my imagination and these unique materials I form innovative original works. Moreover, I continuously seek improvement in myself as I draw and sketch.