Tressa Prisbrey, or known as Grandma Prisbrey is a female outsider artist who built The Bottle Village. She lived in Simi Valley, California where the Bottle Village is located. She began to build The Bottle Village when she was about sixty years old. Bottle Village is a village and also a landmark that was built from recycled items. All of its sculptures, buildings, walkways and monuments were built with findings from the neighborhood dump.…
Ron Mueck is an Australian artist who is known for his real life, and some-what disturbing sculptures. However, before he began creating these magnificent sculptures he began his work on a children’s television show for 15 years before finding his way into special effects working in films such as, “Labyrinth” in 1986. These special effects works lead him to model making where he would create models for commercials and different advertisements. Mueck soon got tired of photography and felt as if it took a lot away from the presence of original objects in the world. This is where he fell head first into his love for sculpture making.…
When it comes to art made from glass no one stands out more than Dale Chihuly. His art stands out for not only the dazzling design, but also for the aura that it emits. Several people have attempted to describe his work however few have succeeded in their endeavor. For this paper, I am going to look at Linda Norden’s description of Chihuly’s work, a video interview of Chihuly, as well as an article from Clement Greenberg for comparison. From these, one prominent writer, Linda Norden, evaluated Chihuly’s art and argued that his forms extend from nature.…
The application of color and paint in a piece creates a noticeable surface texture within the work. This surface texture can be used to enhance the general chaos or conversely the straightforwardness of a work. The use of color within the image also has an effect on the overall mood of the painting and the viewer’s perception of the subjects. In Claude Monet’s Grainstacks (Snow Effect) the heavily textured surface of the painting and visibility of the separate brush strokes creates a sense of complexity, which along with the practice of keeping colors separate, adds to the visual depth of an otherwise very plain subject but still enforces the general mood of the painting. On the other hand in Kingstein’s Christ in a Pawn Shop the surface texture…
Both of these artworks, “The Cotton Bowl” by Hank Willis Thomas, and “Tightrope 9” by Elias Sime, are located in the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thomas’ piece was donated to this museum by the North Carolina Museum of Art Contemporaries in 2012. Hank Willis Thomas’ piece was from his series Strange Fruit, and he notes that it is a “visual and conceptual explanation of the black body as spectacle and souvenir in the American popular culture.” Contrastly, Sime’s artwork was purchased with the funds of Mr. and Mrs. N Richard Miller in memory of Martin B. Rosenthal in 2015. The “Tightrope 9” is made from reclaimed electronic components on many panels.…
Heresies are the magazines that Harmony Hammond helped create with other feminist women. This magazine talks about women’s rights, feminist art, and politics; it brought awareness to social changes that needed to take place at that time. Hammond is known for her “semi-abstract imagery,” which “alludes to both personal and political content. More recently, she has developed mixed-media paintings, incorporating roots, hair, leaves, straw, leather, and other evocative found objects” (National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2014). Below is a picture of a bag Harmony created.…
John Grogan has very delightful memories of his childhood pet, Shaun. When him and his wife, Jenny are deciding to have children, they decide to get a dog as a good parenting subject. They go to a local breeder who specializes in Labrador Retrievers. Jenny picked out a very rowdy golden puppy named Marley. John and Jenny’s life soon gets comfortable with Marley.…
Both pages in the double-spread from Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth are dreams and share surreal themes. Visually they are completely different, however, thematically they can be seen to link due to sharing ideas of anxiety and abandonment. The double-spread chosen is the end of the dream where Superman drops Jimmy’s house and the beginning of the dream about the small horse he is forced to shoot.…
“To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps. In its intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond the intransitive”(3). Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has carried his fair share of objects, feelings, and thoughts. Minor characters such as Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen experience very strange and odd events, which initiates suspicious behavior between the two. The soldiers in the Vietnam War carried a multitude of different things, whether they were physical or mental.…
disregard of representing different people and cultures to a Western society. Women are sculpted holding flowers and appearing serene and unaffected as women were supposed be. In the sculpture, they are taking care of children which shows the belief that women must be motherly and calm. In the center plaque, perhaps one of the most troubling aspects, is Christopher Columbus. The decision to place him in the center of the sculpture, indicates the importance of his presence and may signify that he is the ideal example of what people should try to be, the opposite of savage as it were.…
Canada's Lorne Michaels, Frank Gehry receive Presidential Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON — The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 4:05PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 5:16PM EST 0 Comments 5 5 0 AA Barack Obama expressed praise for the individual work of Frank Gehry and Lorne Michaels on Tuesday as he presented the Canadians with America’s highest civilian honour: the Presidential Medal of Freedom.…
The inability to feel like I belong in Society is something that resonates in me when listening to Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car. This is first seen while I was growing up in a neighborhood where it was a mainly people of African descent, making me feel left out do to the many differences in my life. These memories are particularly relatable when the narrator says that “I want a ticket to anywhere” (2). This line of the song brought me back to my past desire to leave, wanting to be anywhere but home and hoping to find a place to belong wherever I end up. Along with that, the small lapses when I have a taste on what it belongs when I transferred schools.…
The pieces of artwork that I will be discussing are known as The Four Seasons by Philip Haas. The artwork consists of four separate sculptures that represent one of the four seasons. I found these sculptures to be very eye catching because of their style and large size. Each Sculpture is so different, but they are also very similar in many ways. I can tell that a lot of work was put into these pieces of art because of the complexity of their structure and details.…
One may also say that the variety of shapes are the variety of horrific characteristics that described his wife at that time of his life. Uniting the variety of elements and principles of design, the ones brought up within this assignment and the others that can be inferred from the artwork itself, the overall artwork provides a redeeming beauty. It is like the uneasy characteristics come together and soothe things out, and provide a beauty that is in the eye of the…
In order to identify and mimic the creative prospects of the work that elicit detail, I had to admire certain elements and suspect their relevance to the piece, where only then I could interpret them and advance my own creation from the techniques that I observed. While we study many beautiful pieces of art throughout the entirety of this semester, between the originality, economic struggles, and over complications that are exhibited within this work, I believe this work is the most advanced of which we saw, considering the region from whence it…