Gioia Fonda Analysis

The artworks I have chosen to discuss grabbed my attention through visual and emotions more than any other pieces of artwork. I want to compare and contrast the works of Gioia Fonda, because of the skill and patience needed to emplace art inside of the jars. Each artwork was created in 2017 and displayed at the Shasta College Art Gallery. Mt. Foolery captures the eye by gold flakes setting the ground floor with browns and black to show the mountains rising from the earth. The mountains made from cardboard but texturized to truly look like rocks forming. A tree that is as green as when the springs bloom stands alone on the mountain side with a red goat which stands below the shade. Coming down from the sky is cotton mixed with white and pink that shows a cloudy day with storms ahead. This visual delight uses texture, time and motion, and with color to express the artists emotions, but without overbearing detail inside a small space. He uses his focal point as the tree, the dark colors to the bright …show more content…
Inside is a single pink tree next to a river bank with gold and silver leaves falling from its branches like in autumn. The tree sits in sand while the river banks glitter with silver flakes. This piece is also visual delight due to the unrealistic gold and silver leafs falling from a pink tree. The elements of light, texture, and color make it jump from the black and deep hole its set in. The light comes from outside shining through, bouncing of the gold and silver to make the rest of the media to come out of the dark. I feel like he uses Unity and variety at the same time with the leaves. I think he trying to say even within the darkest corners of your life there’s always light trying to shine through on the treasures buried deep inside of each person. To not just settle for boring darkness but to burst out and do what you are meant to do and let nothing hold you