Street art

Indianapolis, Indiana, Is a beautiful city. It is home to numerous war memorials, second only to Washington, DC. However, it is a long way from my home town in Louisiana and not only in distance. I relocated to Indiana temporarily for a job almost a year ago, before the job was completed I was asked to take a permanent position. So my new ‘home’ town is now Indianapolis. I decided to embrace this with this essay, so I began to look for a site-specific public sculptor that has meaning to…

powdered graphite to the silicone. Lastly he use to squeeze the surface using the Plexiglas. Otero’s transfer paintings looked more like if they were printed, then painted. The Sculptures that Otero made were from wrought-iron gates that he found on the streets fused with porcelain and unfired clay. The technique he used was so different that studios didn’t allow him to use their kilns so he had to buy his own. These sculptures represented his grandmother’s home. Angel Otero’s collage were made…

born parents were toymakers which allowed Mueke to experiment with model making and puppetry from an early age. After failing entry in art school he began a career making models for children’s films and television and move to London in 1982 to start his own company. While working with the advertising industry creating props and models Mueke longed to create art that was perfect from all angles and in 1996 began creating sculptures. Mueck creates super realistic sculptures of human beings in key…

Painting is dead. The notion that painting is an outdated and irrelevant medium today has come up in recent years in the art world. Move over painting, it’s the era of installation, video and sculpture. No one proves this statement wrong more so than Jenny Saville. Throughout this essay I will be taking a look at Jenny Saville and one of her earliest yet most stirring pieces - Branded. This is a painting notable for both its brave and outrageous subject matter and its sophisticated technique.…

I choose this piece, because I enjoyed seen all the elements working in harmony. I also appreciate this art style because is made individually and none of them are exactly the same. Each piece of sheet glass is cut into a myriad of small pieces according to a master design pattern. The pieces are then edged with copper foil and operation that is crucial the strength and structure at the shade. 3. “Dragonfly” 1860-1945 by Rene Lalique a Frenc artist. This piece is a hair’s accessory with the…

depicting scenes of everyday life in various levels of impressionism. Combined, the two provide for an excellent comparison of how specific techniques used for their works elicit different emotions and interpretations. Specifically, Caillebotte’s Paris Street: Rainy Day and Hassam’s A Rainy Day of Fifth Avenue capture similar scenarios in roughly an analogous time frame, allowing viewers to focus strictly on the differing techniques used. . From their perspective to color, they are able to evoke…

Historical or Mediocre? Driving to the Jepson Center of Art was fairly easy. Jepson is placed in a little square in downtown and the center is pretty huge, so finding it was no problem. Although I had to park on the back side of the center, I didn’t mind the short walk to the front of the building. When I got inside though I was pretty confused. In most museums that I went to there was always a line to the front desk to pay and a smiling friendly face to greet me. I was not faced with any…

She captured the skyscrapers that were popping up all over the city, the paved roads that ran across the bridges, the streets that were populated with cars, and the sidewalks where many people walked. She showed the everyday lives of people during this time as well. The men who made a living by selling food on the street, or even Berenice photographing the man sleeping under the bridge. I think Berenice Abbott wanted to capture the newly built skyscrapers from different…

Sports and art have been a part of society for thousands of years. Both have adapted and advanced alongside humanity all over the world. To be able to capture the pure essence of a sport through artwork is no easy task, but it exemplifies a true thing of beauty. George Bellows and Thomas Eakins are two outstanding American artist who have done just that. “Stag at Sharkey’s” painted by George Bellows and “The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake” painted by Thomas Eakins are both exceptional…

2. The work of art appears to take the shape of an elongated rectangle. The picture shows thirteen marathon racers running in unison. Starting from the left side, the first marathon runner has a bright white skin color with a dark color attire. But as you go further to the right of the piece the skin color of the runner becomes darker while the attire becomes lighter. Eventually at the far right the runner has very dark skin color and bright white attire. I believe this artist was trying to…