Out Of Body Art Analysis

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,

Back in my school years I used to visit many historical museums, where I learned a lot about the culture and society of the past. As I have always been interested in history and arts, all that was a breathtaking experience for me. I believe that these museums is the best way to get closer to lives of our ancestries and it can help us to see the world in a different way. However, to be more knowledgeable about the world we live in, it’s also extremely important to be familiar with modern art. So this time I decided to experience something new and started searching for a museum which would contain works of contemporary artists. Tampa Museum of Art was a great option. This Museum was founded in 1979 and since then it has curated three exhibitions covering the Classical World to Mid-Century Modernist works,

Many people assume that people are just people, we have no intentional meaning, but that’s not really the case. This is seen the historical fiction novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis when The Watsons were traumatized over the bombing at Joetta’s church. The author uses symbolism to convey the message that maturity comes with time because with impactful events and people, you have to adapt.

I would not let this happen to me.” (Dillard, P.26) She had realized how people’s youthful appearance deteriorate as they aged. It kind of scared her, because she didn’t want it happening to her. Another difference Dillard observed was religion. She disliked the Catholic schoolchildren, because she was afraid of their beliefs. She expressed thoughts on how uptight the religion was compared to her own when she said “Whatever the pope said, I thought it was no prize, it didn’t work, our Protestant lives were much sunnier, without our half trying.” (Dillard, P. 33). She also talked about changes in Pittsburgh’s appearance. “City workers continually paved the streets, They poured asphalt over the streetcar tracks, streetcar tracks their fathers had wormed between the old riverworn cobblestones, cobblestones laid smack into the notorious nineteenth-century mud.” This message is important because after childhood, you start to grow more aware of the world around you, which is a big change. Children are often oblivious to changes, but as you get older, you notice how things change more up-close and personal.

The first art that interested me was the art of Indonesia which in this exhibit depicted the

Collier uses symbols such as a potted geranium and marigolds to reveal the theme that, when a person is at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood, one must be able to

The museum I chose to visit was the Dali Museum mainly because I have been wanting to check it out since I first moved down here to Florida three years ago. My sister has always been a huge Salvador Dali fan and even has a tattoo of his painting titled “The Elephants” on her side. I am looking forward to experiencing more of his paintings other than his most popular works of art. I am also hoping this experience will give me a greater appreciation for him as an artist by seeing the diversity of his works. What I am least looking forward to is trying to find one work of art that really stands out to me enough to write this paper about. I am sure I am going to find multiple pieces of art that I will love.

The first piece of art work that I saw was the work of Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) I felt it captured my attention as I first walked into the room. The unique sculpture “DIANA” really impressed me by depicting a Roman Goddess poised with her bow raised high and ready for the hunt. It was also interesting because the women of that time period were not known as hunters, they were known for being mothers and wives. The piece of art work was medium in sitting on top of a pedestal as you walked into the main exhibit room. There was lots of background information on the poster written below this artwork. It told a story of how MacMonnies and his contemporaries got their inspiration in ancient Greek and Roman culture, and it also took some of the Italian Renaissance into account when making the piece.

In the contemplation of art, or rather the conceptually intangible definition it currently possess, it is imperative to be mindful that “art” has been utilized as a promotional device, ceremonial item, aesthetically purposed article or perhaps none of these or all. It is because of this vague term that Carolyn Dean, in her text, “The Trouble with (The Term) Art”, makes a case for the consequences of applying the term “art” in societies that lacked such a notion which also accounts for the Western-centric lens the field intrinsically utilizes when viewing non-Western art. The claim is deftly supported by the utilization of expert accounts in the subject, alternative perspectives for what is considered the current norm, and self-examining questions,

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

In the book multiple symbols were used to represent childhood. When we think of childhood we think of babies, little boys, and little girls We don't young men and women we think of arcades, balls, and

I went to the L Ross Gallery, 5040 Sanderlin Ave, Suite 104 Memphis, TN. The Artists were: Lisa Jennings, and Jeni Stallings. The exhibit was, “The Story Continues”, the analysis I will be using is expressive.

When I attend the Oklahoma Art Museum this morning, I was completely blown away by the different styles, technique, and artistic abilities that artist have. Art can come in many forms and can involve many different things. From paintings, sculptures, and abstract pieces of the modern world. Along with my visit, I got to experience a new collection of blown glass that was absolute remarkable. As I walked though the museum, it was as I walked though time and got to see how each period’s art changed throughout time. From the different shades of color to the different types of technique that filled the halls of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, each piece was genuine in its own way. I was starstruck as I witnessed Lowell Nesbitt’s Parrot Tulip, Richard Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque, and Dale Chihuly’s blown glass.

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 colors and materials used really draws your attention as soon as you step into the doors. It used many everyday materials, such has trash, yarn fabric, and random objects you find around your house. The exhibition in this gallery is called Forget Me Not which will be leaving on December sixth. The point of this exhibition is to mirror the process of memory through forgetting. It also includes artwork from a number of female contemporary artist who are around the Atlanta area. Some of the art work was made based on the patterns of wind movement. It showed the different waves of the wind by using fabric of different colors to signal the directions. Two other pieces of art work were made out of trash completely. Each piece with the trash intertwining with each other. Other pieces just looked like random trash taken out and put on shelfs. Although all the pieces were very interesting, the one that caught my eye the most was the biggest and most colorful one of them all. It covered the entire wall. It was called Sunset Portraits from 28,029,142 Sunset Pictures on Flickr on 7/14/05, 2008- ongoing by Penelope Umbrico. It was a big collage of photographs all piece together. In fact the artist just sent the pictures to the school and the students and staff were able to piece the photos together any way they wanted. Umbrico questioned the idea of the democratization of media, and where it claims to foster subjectivity and individuality. She also address how images function on the internet rather than physical time and space, and also how it is depicted on the web then how it is printed out on paper. She takes the images on line as a collective archive that represents us as people. This work really draws the viewer in with the peacefulness of all of the sunsets put together. The different colors and the silhouettes of the people who are happily enjoying each other’s company gives off a certain