Tooled Ochre

Fran admired and collected other artist’s work for her home, but also as part of her trove of infinite objects that often made their way into her art. From the mad jumble of countless boxes and bags in her studio came often playful “bricolage” works of beauty, humor and imagination. She taught for many years at the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, the Newark Museum and was actively teaching until just weeks before her death last year. An award-winning artist, she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, Victoria and Albert Museum, and in galleries throughout New Jersey. She began her eight-decade career as a fashion designer before moving into painting, printmaking, found art sculpture, book and paper making, and other multi-media arts. Fran studied art at the American School of Fine Arts, Newark School of Fine Arts, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. The works in this exhibition were generously donated by Fran’s family to The 1978 Maplewood Arts Center. Proceeds from all sales will benefit the center as well as public art in the

The woman has a featureless face, and a white parallel pattern represents the flowing raffia skirt. The woman is running, depicting movement. The horns are shown in a twisted perspective. The small white dots on the body of the woman represent body paint. The work has earthy colors, like white, gold, and beige, and is painted onto a medium-brown rock. The work takes up a fairly large space on the rock it was painted on.

The artwork being analyzed is called Nameless and Friendless and it was completed in 1857 by Emily Mary Osborn. The artwork was most likely created in England, where she was from. The media is oil paints on canvas, rather than the wood that was usually used. It is currently on display in Tate, Britain.

Julie Heffernan was born in 1956. She was raised in Northern California but resides in Brooklyn, New York today. She received a BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and incredibly, her Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the Yale School of Art. A significant moment that contributes to her talent as an artist was in 1986 where she lived in Berlin for two years, studying and practicing constantly during her stay. Her process for creating a new

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”.

This painting is a portrait of an old woman who is sitting on a chair while facing to the left. She is wearing a yellow flower dress with a beige jacket while sitting in an empty room. Her beauty is illustrated by her curly, gray hair and also her wrinkled face, neck, and hands. These details is what makes her look real and pure. I like how detailed it is because it reminds me of my grandmothers.

I have chosen Romanticism/ Post Impressionism, Olive Trees with yellow sky and sun, by Vincent Van Gogh; The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole, comparing it to the “Spirit Rising, by Christophe Vacher”.

Dale Chihuly is an American glass blower (Dale Patrick Chihuly, 2015). The piece of art I’ll mainly be looking at is Citron and Cobalt Tower. This piece was located directly in the center of the museum as soon as you walked in to the show room. It caught my eye and I knew immediately what I wanted to do my paper on.

Oil on canvas, presented by Sir Colin and Lad Anderson through the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1976

The artwork is a realistic portrait of a women. It is abstracted with asymmetrical balance with exotic and vibrant colors. As if the women is sitting in the corner with two

This exhibit included costumes from A New Hope in 1977 to The Force Awakens in 2015. Moreover, the exhibit was perfectly done and extremely informative.

The Coriolis Effect The artwork my group chose was The Coriolis Effect, 1987 by Vernon Fisher. This particular piece attracted my eye because of the green neon light in the center of the artwork in form of a swirl. Also once you walk to it you can see a lot of branches sticking out of the artwork that is something else that attracted my eye was how many branches there was. I can’t imagine how long it took Vernon to attach all the branches in one piece.

The Mona Lisa, 1503 - 1506, painted on poplar wood (77 x 53cm) with oil paint.

The portrait is displayed horizontally with a gold trimmed frame. The subject is a female that looks to be in her early 20’s sitting upright on a large brown chair. If the viewer travels up the painting the first indication of the woman’s class is her satin, blue dress. The saturated blue shines and falls in the light like water. Paired with the dress are her exceptionally detailed endings to her sleeves. The lace is even painted as though it is translucent, allowing a little of the blue dress to show through the sleeve. Flowers throughout history have symbolized innocence of a woman and her virginity. The repeating theme of flowers, in the sleeve cuffs and ribbon) in the woman’s attired suggests her purity or innocent nature. Another very details section of the painting includes the corset/torso details. The sewing suggests texture in the torso with small beading in between. Towards the top of the chest in the center, the female seems to bear an extravagant, ribbon piece with a tear drop bead in the center. The light pink

My art students at the St. Croix Educational Complex High School and I had the privilege of learning recycled art puppet making firsthand from artist and puppet master, Mr. Donovan Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman was selected to create giant puppets depicting characters from the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge book collection. He was also selected to teach educators and students this art form. The puppets were created for the Virgin Islands Department of Education Division of Virgin Islands Cultural Education’s carnival entry in children’s’ parade on January, 6.