Offering Truth

“This is where you can find your soul, if you dare.” (Anderson, pg 10) This belief comes from the mind of the Melinda, the progantists, art teacher, Mr. Freeman. Art is truly a door to the mind of an individual, showing things that people aren’t able to say. It shows through images and colors what many people aren’t able to express in words, events and thoughts speaking through the medium. Art is growing as a use of therapy to heal and tell. Psychologists analyze their patients art at a psychological level, interpreting the image into words. One of the theories in art therapy, which is seen throughout “Speak”, is the idea that unconscious thoughts are expressed in an image. (Irvings)These images then can be explained rationally. Melinda’s three major art images, the half dead trees, turkey bone, and cubism represent this theory.

Since the beginning of time, artists have labored extensively to find innovative ways to convey sentiment, passion, and feeling. Telling stories and trying to unlock the minds of people through different avenues of artistic labors. Art touches and affects people in unique ways; it can have special or unusual meaning on the person depending on how one views it. Artists’ rendering of their art is interpreted in numerous ways by others who view it unless it is explained by the artist on its meaning giving a clear example of what they are portraying. Two people looking at the same painting, sculpture, portrait, or photo may come to different views on the arts meaning even though they are looking

Her self expression through painting is used as an outlet for her expression as the new individual she has grown to be.

     Art, in each and every form that it comes in, shows us who we are. Our

The primary focus of this section is to explain the “act of painting.” Flack begins her book with notes on the creative process and what it means to be an artist. Everything from the perception of color to confronting a blank canvas is addressed in this section. Audrey Flack briefly touches on the spiritual

When you look at art, you wouldn’t think that the artist actually put so much thought and emotion into their paintings. Last week, as I viewed some of the paintings in the Appleton Museum I just really wondered what some of the painters were trying to get across with their paintings or at least what they were thinking of as they painted onto the canvas. Some of the painting on the wall were quite interesting and intricate while other were pretty simple and straight forward. Each of painting have something that make them different and unique. Two paintings that caught my attention were: Wanted Poster #5 by Charles White (1969) and The Judgement of Solomon by Joseph Van Severdonck. Both these painting seemed to have something quite interesting.

Thomas Merton once said "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time". This is completely true. Throughout the semester we have gone through almost as many as 300 pictures we view, learn, decompose into the criteria it meets and talk about the controversial things it has, while we do this we don't recognize that we also identify the form, content, iconography, and context. All four areas are what the paint, picture or sculptures identity is. I was lucky enough to visit my buddy out at WIU. There are many works in the art gallery, around the union and even outside walking around, but one that did catch my attention and had me thinking about it for quite some time. It was a painting called Memorialized by Tyanna Buie, was made in 2011 and measures 38’’x50’’. The content it has is beautiful, the form is wicked, context is superb and iconography is permanent. It reminds me of artwork we've gone through the semester. The painting was being showed at the art gallery in end of March. It’s now May and I can still picture it in my head so detailed, without even looking at a picture of it. It’s a piece of work I have connected to, yet lost myself in.

A big gray hoodie and leggings hung off her scrawny but mature body, I watched as it rustled with every paint stroke. Every stoke she added to the painting brought more life into it. Lovingly she started at the almost filled canvas. I wanted to find out the reasoning of her painting and why it was so ... odd. She smiled and tuned towards me took a clumsy bow cleared up her things and left. She didn't sign her painting nor did she stay to find out what her grade was. She either knew she was getting an A or just didn't car because painting made her happy. You could tell it did. I'd never seen a person paint so tenderly before. I jumped from my chair and ran into the room before the paint could set into the soft ridges of the canvas and quickly etched her name into a corner. Her name was just as oddly beautiful as her. Amelia Rose, soft but memorable. I sighed softly as I began to move her easel into an empty space of the room to dry. Now that I was closer to it i could examine it more soft but bold brush strokes, with very nice detailing and shading. I almost wanted to try and repaint it but I knew I'd never be as skilled as this

“How can a painting have so much to say” Is one question that people may ask themselves. Telling stories and expressing one’s self in paintings brings one to show others a new way of seeing and thinking about life. The canvas of every writer is easy to visualize or to relate to by how the painter expressed himself and wanted to portray the message through a painting. From Pablo Picasso to George Seurat and to so much more. The meaning and story of the panting’s take you to a whole different world. They make us view things differently and see things in a new perspective by how the painter is showing or expressing themselves. They explain what they had to go through or what was going on, by telling their story we can feel the emotion behind it as well as how raw it makes one feel. Through the painting, one can make their assumptions about what the story is. The beauty of art shows either the great or corrupt that the painter sees or the ongoing situation. They show the people different perspectives of what’s going on and they make you feel the same emotion that they put on the painting. We see art as a way of expression and it makes us connect to the painting that we see. The art helps us understand the way the person behind the drawing felt or what they saw when it was going on. The beauty of art is that it lets everyone express themselves through painting, so we can tell our story. Art is expressed through 1) human culture, 2) emotion, and 3) communication.

"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture." -- Otto Dix (Mulch, page 1)

Biblical and theological literature were included in an attempt to understand the image.This image is a parody of the biblical narrative of the world’s creation and mans fall to sin. More importantly, it is an attempt by the painter to highlight and even over-exaggerate the role, which the woman supposedly played in the fall from grace that the world

I believe painting to be a method of creative expression by allowing anyone to uniquely express themselves with

When a person looks at a painting everyone will have a different outlook from the painting. The only one that truly knows what is behind the art piece would be the artist. Artists try to speak through their art, even when other people might not understand the painting or message. The artist has specific ways the painting is managed .From the moment the artist comes up with the idea of what to pain to the moment its being shown. Colors, formality, frame and style help identify some stuff the artist is trying to point out.

I think that the end result is truthfulness. Every artist must be sincere and truthful if he wants to be a great and true artist over and over again art is predictable to request and bond with human being feelings. Art can awaken aesthetic or ethical feelings. The amount of skillfulness that the artist has will influence over the capability they have so they can to generate an emotional response and by this means make available new insights. Art tends to smooth the progress of spontaneous slightly than coherent thoughtfulness, and frequently it is knowingly shaped with this purpose. Art calculatedly serves no other function. As a result of this forward motion, works of art are hard to pin down, refractive to attempts at arrangement, for the reason that they can be respected in more than one way, and are often vulnerable to many dissimilar interpretations. Even art that to every appearance depicts a commonplace proceedings or items may encourage manifestation upon prominent themes. Conventionally, the uppermost achievements of art make obvious a high intensity of ability or fluency within a medium. This characteristic might be considered a point of contention, since many contemporary artists (particularly, theoretical artists) do not themselves produce the moving parts they envisage, or do not even produce the labor in a straight, affectionate wisdom. Art has a capacity of transforming: predominantly confers

“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. “- Francis Bacon. However when I learnt more about history of art and the way each movement and happenings in the world inspired artist to make new works, I was able to see much more than just a canvas with random paints and sketches. The interesting part about this concept is that each piece of art could be interpreted in many different ways. In contemporary art there isn’t right and wrong, each of us view and find different meanings and connections with artworks.