Roberto Lugo

“I juxtapose porcelain with graffiti in the hopes that we can start to see how different cultural histories can work together.” The Roberto Lugo’s Angela Davis/ Toni Morrison teapot combines the spray paint letter effect with the dripping paint clumping together to juxtapose street art with expensive pottery. He uses the contrast of the nice stoneware and the street graffiti to show there are problems with inequality and racism in our society. Roberto Lugo chose Angela Davis, a social activist as the main focal point on the teapot. The artist is trying to show that even though the art is vastly different from each other they can work together to create something beautiful. The message conveyed in the teapot is that one must look at the contrasts reflected on the piece and recognize it is a reflection of the problems we have with racial inequality in our society. With the use of collage the artist tries to convey the idea that our society is broken. It makes us rethink how we perceive elite fine pottery, street art, and portraits. The different patterns and words of the graffiti-like a collage that lets us understand the different types of art. Angela Davis is black and …show more content…
He uses both fine art and low art. The fine art is the pottery piece and the low art is the graffiti style painting and words on the piece. The old-fashioned teapot art and the modern street art are total opposites. The darkness of the patterns and the lightness of the clay work together to create an interesting piece. The artist is trying to show with his art being total opposites and working together in society they can do that too. Robert Lugo uses postmodern art and collage to convey the difference of style in the artwork. He is trying to show the viewer about the problems with society in a different way because a lot of the time people don’t want to hear about those problems since they are so hard to hear about and