What does it take to make a piece of artwork likeable? Does it have to be beautiful, meaningful, or even relatable? No, but it does have to be understandable. One art piece that I just don’t quite understand is the Fish watcher by Carla Gannis. It is a digital pigment print that was made in 2006. Due to a lack of understanding I will conduct an art analysis to see if those results will change my mind in order to make it more likeable in my eyes. First step is to question what makes up the composition. In the composition, a pregnant woman with long dark brown curly hair is standing in pink sheer lingerie, white underwear, white above the ankle socks, and house slippers. She is standing on a cliff in rocky terrain, overlooking many angled houses,
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Through her other pieces you can tell she loves working with the idea of strange art in her digital work. The work usually has at least one person or more, includes nature like trees, plays around with the idea of family, and a little bit of a quasi-dark twist. Just the same with her other workings this piece is a narrative under a collection called “Everything That Rises Must Converge.” To fully understand this work you have to know and understand symbolism and the two symbols that stand out to me are the fish and the sunrise. Sunrises are the start of a new fresh day while fish symbolize fertility, birth, rebirth, independence, and even change. The woman standing in the composition could be starting a new life and a new journey with her soon to be baby and seems hopeful of good things to …show more content…
She has a great advantage of getting such details in her piece because she uses a digital medium and because of the digital advantage she can manipulate it any way she wants. Another perk a digital medium is you can create art anywhere with the right tools and always be able to go back and fix something that is not liked. One can use different programs to create texture that can me mimicked though technology and thus may be an easier way to create art and getting it out to the
Through her other pieces you can tell she loves working with the idea of strange art in her digital work. The work usually has at least one person or more, includes nature like trees, plays around with the idea of family, and a little bit of a quasi-dark twist. Just the same with her other workings this piece is a narrative under a collection called “Everything That Rises Must Converge.” To fully understand this work you have to know and understand symbolism and the two symbols that stand out to me are the fish and the sunrise. Sunrises are the start of a new fresh day while fish symbolize fertility, birth, rebirth, independence, and even change. The woman standing in the composition could be starting a new life and a new journey with her soon to be baby and seems hopeful of good things to …show more content…
She has a great advantage of getting such details in her piece because she uses a digital medium and because of the digital advantage she can manipulate it any way she wants. Another perk a digital medium is you can create art anywhere with the right tools and always be able to go back and fix something that is not liked. One can use different programs to create texture that can me mimicked though technology and thus may be an easier way to create art and getting it out to the