Created Through the Eye Why do we all have different interpretations of art? Because we all are different in some way, our identity defines us and how we look at the world while our actions shape us and world around us. The works of Wenda Gu and Gordon Bennett both reflect aspects of their identity, whether that be personal, spiritual, cultural or psychological. Both artist are similar in many ways, notably for their reflection on personal experiences as cultural minorities. Gordon Bennett successfully portrays his personal experiences as well as the cultural influences in his artworks. He highlights the concerns and identity of the cultures that have influenced him into creating his pieces of art. With In his artwork Home Décor Algebra …show more content…
Presents accepted historical truths from a new perspective. The drowning man depicted symbolises that Anglo-Saxon people are drowning out the communities, and cultural differences of the African Americans and aboriginal people, ruining their unique identity. The group of indigenous Australians sitting around a camp fire and one larger figure on the right in the composition, portray Bennett’s feeling of not being accepted by either the Aboriginal people or the Anglo-Celtic. This painting directly links with the lost identity of Gordon Bennett and many others of the lost generation people with his confused cultural background. He raises questions through his artworks about both his own individual understanding of who he is and also the oppression and racism towards the Australian Aboriginal people particularly as recorded in …show more content…
Their paintings reflect their experiences and identities as racially oppressed minorities and convey the isolation that they feel. Gordon Bennett’s paintings portrays how he feels about his place in the Indigenous Australian culture and how the Indigenous people’s traditions are slowly being drowned out by white culture and suppression. Wenda Gu also addresses cultural identity, but differantly through his use of bold colour set against black and white and bold red to highlight the mistakes made by both women and men in I Evaluate Characters Written by Three Men and Three Women. Gu’s painting Negative and Positive Characters uses binary oppositions to question what is correct within society. Both artist have utilised there cultural background to address the issues that are present across the world and also their personal concerns with
Bennett connects “art and politics” possibly depicting “Australian history and identity” being overlapped to convey the idea of the suppression of a rich Aboriginal culture further symbolized by red etchings of paint in the background
Thesis: Thornton Dial’s artwork invites the viewer to reexamine the importance of insignificant, everyday objects through his use of mixed media. The background is comprised of small wooden blocks that roughly form outlines of one-story houses. There are five houses in all, each possessing a small cloth bundle in the center. From left to right, the colors of the houses are yellow, orange, purple, orange, and red. In between the houses are bits of painted cloth, metal wiring, and thick layers of light blue paint.
The artist’s analysis and points assist me to come to the conclusion of truthfulness. The small images that were formed on the tiles helps the audience reach the conclusion
Robert Drewe’s 1996 novel The Drowner is, among other things, a representation of Western Australian lifestyle, culture and identity in the late 19th century. At the time, Australia was still a young nation; an “underdog” among Western countries. However, numerous gold rushes brought wealth and prosperity to the nation, attracting millions of immigrants from mainly European countries. Australia’s national identity developed into one centred around the values of hard work, perseverance and mateship—values which are still central to our identity today.
The Stage One Visual Study comprises of three artists whose artwork is in different forms of media inclusive of Lino Printing, Clay Sculptures and Painting. The first artist, Margrett
But, what art history doesn’t question when it fails to find any explicit or implicit meanings is the kind of representation within a picture; why has it been represented like this? What does it mean to represent something? These are the questions which have been raised by not art historians but literary theorists have managed to pose and extract answers out of them. She states that neglect of the representation and an over dependence on text is due to iconography, emphasis on naturalism and a tendency to search for artist’s social
This essay will analyze how the work of Chuck Close greatly influenced me in relation to my drawing as I was inspired by the expressive nature of the fingerprint portraits. Also, how exploring Close’s artworks and underlying meaning of his works caused me to question the meaning I wanted to portray in my drawing which therefore caused me to come up with my final theme that is Surplus of Individuals, Scarcity of Presence. Chuck close believes that the human face is a symbol for the roadmap of a person’s life as it tells the journey that one has been on. Close suffers from a condition known as face blindness- this causes him to forget the faces he has seen unless they are in a two dimensional form; this is one of his main influences for making portraits as it enables him to remember the faces of the most
Tyler Hollenkamp Artist profile paper October 20 2015 Peter Paul Rubens The first time I remember seeing a work by Rubens was in my high school art class, and I remember it very clearly the impact it had on me. We were watching a slide show on the projector and she brought up one of his paintings being displayed in a museum with hundreds of people around it. The sheer size of this painting was mind blowing, and the awe inspiring scene that was taking place within the painting had an ever lasting effect on me, and is one of the reasons I wanted to be an artist my self.
In the year 1993, he displayed “Mother and Child Divided,” at the Venice Bienniale, a popular international art exhibition. The installation piece had a bisected cow and her calf displayed in four glass enclosures, filled with formaldehyde. His controversial work soon placed him into the league of the best known artists in England. Britain. He won the esteemed Turner Prize in the year 1995.
The painting was created with the purpose of recording history, as it is not done in deep detail or extreme accuracy. The painting depicts the English arriving upon a shoreline spotted with aboriginals. The aboriginals appear to seem outnumber the English and portrayed with a sense of urgency - their positioning erratic. The body language of the aboriginal figures portray a sense of curiosity, they are not formal or entirely defensive but instead reaching out to the British with others clumped together watching cautiously. The British are painted in a more formal manner, wearing blue jackets and hats.
Suburban Culture Crisis Meegan Lim Magazines, Acrylic, Matte Gel on Wood Panel Walk through a suburb. What do you think lies behind the door of each cookie-cutter home? What lies is culture, shaping a family with anything from language to religion. Culture ultimately shapes the way you live your life, and the perspective you view the world from. Growing up in Canada, more specifically the suburbs of Brampton, I have struggled to maintain elements from my Malaysian-Chinese background, and incorporate them with the surrounding Canadian culture.
Artists often communicate their ideas and visions through their artwork. They reflect this through their beliefs and their way of seeing the world. As seen in Julie Rraps ‘overstepping’, she portrays a strong message based on a social comment through the way she sees the 20th century society. In a totally different form performing artist, Lee Wen, expresses his views and ethics a through his mixed-media, installation, performances and paintings.
For people who likes art, art is beautiful; it is a part of history, past experience and what an individual imagines. However, for the artist it is a part of his/her life, it is the perception the artist holds about events around and serves as a way to demonstrate history. Therefore, any piece of art was influenced by various factors. These factors range from economic, political, social and many more. Taking the factors discussed above, the following paper discusses the factors that influenced the style of Yayoi Kusama’s installations.
Interior Design and Cultural Difference In architecture interior space, man is an integral part of nature’ and to achieve realm, human maintains the relationship with environment (in-door and out-door) and space. Therefore, a perfect interior-design work should ensure to understand sensory stimulation of people in human environment that includes air quality, music, furnishings, fixtures, lighting and display layout (Xufang, 2014, Park & Farr, 2008). One of the challenging aspects of interior designer is to consider the users changing face when designing the environment especially understanding the cultural context as it creates identity for human representing their nationality and region such as their own cultural background, morals, ethics
Reminding one of the age-old tradition, of doing the same as a part of a wish fulfilling superstition; especially related to those of financial security. The sheer material richness and the ambiguity of the work creates a sense of apparition. The work seems to be visually closed, as the sculptures don’t face the viewers, but invariably call them to take a closer look. To counter this sense of an isolated and independent presence is a gallery, Tallur strikes a sense of involvement from the viewers, as he invites them to touch, feel and ‘work’ on the work. He does this keeping in mind the wish fulfilling ritual and