Norval Morrisseau Androgyny

The left side of the painting includes American icons such as Steve Irwin, Prince, Abraham Lincoln, and the “army” being led by George Washington. This could symbolize the American lifestyle that focuses and is represented mainly by society's take on who is important to the culture. This is often popular or influential celebrities, iconic presidents and/or leaders such as Abraham

Entranced, Ava read the information accompanying the picture. She found that it was a Navajo sand painting from the early eighteen hundreds and was thought to depict the mythical ‘Bird of Happiness’, revered by the Navajos for bringing peace and joy to their people. She learned that they believed the bird to be a spirit in animal form and associated it with the rising sun. To her surprise, she also discovered that present day members of the Navajo tribe still sing songs about the Bird of Happiness during traditional ceremonies to greet the dawn.

Overall, what formally attracted me to this piece of art work would have been that it resembles The Last Supper. Not only does it resemble The Last Supper, but it does it in a humorous way. Although, it looks foolish at first, it has so many meanings behind it. Jim Denomie nationality is Indian. He said that in the Indian culture, to tell stories to kids about history we should learn from, they add humor to disguise the harshness. The cartoon caracteristics add that humor and foolishness, so that the harshness of the content is not to rash. I do personally like the true meaning behind this piece. Even at first glance you think this painting may be a joke of some sort. But doing more research on it, you relize the importants

It sometime causes individuals to have disagreements. I believe that whenever someone is interpreting art they need to be open to other opinions. For example, when I first looked at the painting titled Fountain I seen a fire hydrant. But in actuality it is a urinal placed on a pedestal. That is just a prime example how we see things differently as humans even though we are looking at the same

The artwork I have chosen is called The Dance Class created by Edgar Degas in 1874. He created this artwork using oil on canvas. In this artwork you can see the seven design elements of art. Degas used many different lines in his art. You can see parallel, horizontal, vertical, and all different sizes of lines.

This piece is one of my favorites amongst many others by Lora Zombie. I find that it is quite witty and somewhat tasteful in a very exclusive way. It looks to be as if the girl in the painting is in the mist of a happy outter body experience almost like being in a trans state but seeing nothing but rainbows and unicorns. I love Lora Zombies paintings because it relates to a happy carefree part of me.

I believe that without the exuberating colors and big grin that the man has, that it would not evoke the same feelings of happiness. If the painting were to be made darker and gloomier then I might have not noticed it. The components of light, color, and expression are what make this painting exuberating. The Storyteller brighten my day as I walked through the gallery my eye always went back to it smiling just like the man in it and feeling joy.

I was not looking hard enough, behind this painting there is history and made me look at it differently. I really liked how he used the history in his artwork and unique style of using different colors and scenarios usually not seen, like the mixing of Gods and Mortals mentioned in paragraph four. I’m sure like any other painting that has to do with history there may be two sides of it. Some people may agree with what the painting shows and others may oppose. I believe this painting shows a little bit of the history of France. I believe the community of france took this painting as a well explanatory paining and there is really nothing negative of this portrait. To other cultures it may be hard to understand the story behind at first because we may not know who the figures are at first but once you study it and maybe search them it will all start coming piece by piece and coming to the realization of the actual work and what is behind

it's an original to that artist. The painting helps people visualize and imagine what it must have been like in the past. Seeing the colors, textures and setting evoke emotions for people just like poetry. You can't justify whether one is good

This art piece was appealing to me because I thought of it as a peaceful, calming piece of artwork. When I first saw this painting I thought how lovely is the lady with her kids. Until I read the description and had a whole new story. I needed to look closer into the painting after reading the description. There is a gas mask in the ladies left hand as for her children are in their fun gas mask. I liked how the artist makes the painting seem so calm until you know the meaning behind it. This work is not disturbing, but it is mysterious. The work engages you to not only look at it once but look at it twice. To understand where the artist is coming from by painting this drawing. This work does have address of the Hawaiian cultural heritage. Which

I completely agree with you about the use of vivid colors in this painting that the artist really invokes a sense of “Joy” into its viewer. I did not notice the use of balance until you mentioned it and I believe that you are right about the focal point of the people holding hands really brings out a sense of happiness.

After researching the image I found multiple things that show the story behind the painting, giving it meaning in my mind. The blunt spear, held by the bird man on the left side of the painting, has phallic symbolism (a mimetic image of an erect penis); I also found that the bride in the image is considered to be Leonora Carrington, a former lover, who Ernst had to leave behind in order to escape to America. Further showing the sexual longing in the piece is the symbolistic presence of Ernst in the form of the bird man. “Ernst had long identified himself with the bird, and invented an alter ego, Loplop, superior of the birds in 1929” (Flint.). This leads people to believe that the bird man in the picture is a depiction of the artist, showing a longing toward the bride, Leonora Carrington.

At the half right side, Reed draws the aggressive animal, it show the animals fighting and eating each other, and on the half left side, she draws the non-aggressive animals, and it shows all of the animals locate in the half left side aren’t as violent like the animals that the painting on the half right show. On the half right, the Reed drew the violent animal like: “tiger, lion”. Fighting each other, and try to eat each other, she draws wild dog in the mix, and near the middle, she draws a dead bird, and near the dead bird is a gun. Because the right half of the painting shows this scene, my prediction that Reed tries to show the audience that if the animal is weak, they are going to get eaten up by animal that stronger than them, it doesn’t matter whether they come from the same species or not. Reed also shows that if you have a prominent weapon, then it's really easy to kill, she shows it by painting a dead bird that fell to the

This painting shows how close and codependent humans and nature were. How well humans worked together with one another and their world. How peaceful those that are close to nature are, which is why it (nature) must be celebrated and appreciated.

I personally get a sense of perfection in a human world when I look at this painting, which is a bit misleading but appropriate for a time in which men were beginning to question the divine and finding answers in the natural world where science and mathematical solutions were starting to make sense of everything around us.