influenced my work was a piece by Kudzonai Chivrai , titled lyeza. It was a multimedia piece that replicated the Last Supper with a dramatic twist. I was inspired by it play off of a well-known the cliché, riding off into the sunset and make it distinctly my own. I did this by having surreal elements of a having sunrise in the western horizon and sunset in the eastern horizon. I was overall very pleased by my final piece. I wished that I was neater with my paint and kept it on the front of the canvas. Also that my edges were more clean and clear. I really enjoyed the artist process for this piece.
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My Alternative art final is a surrealist piece that reflects my growth over four years. I stretched my own canvas and prepped it. The piece is a hilly landscape shown in one point perspective. The palette used was acrylic paint; ultramarine blue, medium red, lemon yellow hue, bright white and deep black. I mixed my own paint to get the warm and cool colored sky. Three hills symbolic of a stories beginning, middle and end of my high school career. There is a sunset and sunrise coloring the horizon from left to right with clear blue sky in-between. As my four years come to a close the sunrises on my college career. The figure in my piece is a white horse beginning its ascending up the final hill to ride off into the sunrise. I chose a horse because it is a powerful , free animal and I was an equestrian when I was younger. The hills are spotted by dandelions both white and yellow. White dandelions signify hope and good wishes for the future. The yellow ones signify youth and my early years in high school.
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RISD Art Reflection
On the field trip to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum , or RISD, we saw multiple pieces that I found to be inspiring. The pieces were made of many different media. The museum itself was interesting to observe from an artist perspective . For example how the works were displaced to show them off in the most advantageous way.
One piece by Kudzonai Chivrai , titled lyeza made with multimedia. The work was a painfully slow video with chanting African music in the background. It depicted a table with a president at the head in a winged red chair, a worker in overalls and american striped patches and women who end up fighting one another. A soldier holding a gun in the foreground who shot a man then precedes to stand over him threateningly. A man in the center at a small table with a bowl slowly partakes in vises . The first he scoops up looks like blood from the bowl followed by drinking and smoking. Women opposite him crouch and bury their faces in their hands . i can not determine if its from fear of the man or laughter. The artist piece had the theme of civil war and political power. The slow motion of the film added to the tension of the piece. The piece looked like a Last Supper replica with a dramatic twist. This piece inspired me because it was multimedia and used visual, audio and film to create a cohesive stunning work. I was inspired to play off of a well known cliche and make it distinctly my own.
Kudzanai Chiurai Iyeza,
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Multimedia
Goodmans Gallery
On the field trip to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum , or RISD, we saw multiple pieces that I found to be inspiring. The pieces were made of many different media. The museum itself was interesting to observe from an artist perspective . For example how the works were displaced to show them off in the most advantageous way.
One piece by Kudzonai Chivrai , titled lyeza made with multimedia. The work was a painfully slow video with chanting African music in the background. It depicted a table with a president at the head in a winged red chair, a worker in overalls and american striped patches and women who end up fighting one another. A soldier holding a gun in the foreground who shot a man then precedes to stand over him threateningly. A man in the center at a small table with a bowl slowly partakes in vises . The first he scoops up looks like blood from the bowl followed by drinking and smoking. Women opposite him crouch and bury their faces in their hands . i can not determine if its from fear of the man or laughter. The artist piece had the theme of civil war and political power. The slow motion of the film added to the tension of the piece. The piece looked like a Last Supper replica with a dramatic twist. This piece inspired me because it was multimedia and used visual, audio and film to create a cohesive stunning work. I was inspired to play off of a well known cliche and make it distinctly my own.
Kudzanai Chiurai Iyeza,
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Multimedia
Goodmans Gallery
Midterm Project: Abortion
My social issue I chose is very close to my heart , abortion. I am strongly Pro Life and this is reflected in my work. My five pieces is a visual narrative of a young girl life with her cut out of it. This is what abortion does to ⅓ of our generation , it whips out a life. The girl’s life touches many others in my pictures, she is a: daughter, sister,friend,wife, mother and grandmother these relations would never exist if she was aborted. I used water colors and pastels in my work , the pastels were used for the clouds in many of my pictures. I was most inspired by Martin Hudáček . He did a beautiful sculpture named the “memorial for the unborn”. This sculpture depicted a crying mother kneeling with a transparent child standing over her patting her on the head ,as if to console her. This intrigued me because most other pictures were of the unborn in the womb , but Hudáček depicted a young child. This got me thinking of how abortion doesn’t just kill a baby but ends a whole life. The baby never gets to grow up and make a difference in the world. Damien Hirst a famous artist did a series of sculptures of the development of the baby in the womb. Damien Hirst is not well known for his Pro Life work . These sculptures encouraged me to do a series over the course of the girl’s life picking moments from each stage of life; childhood,adolescence , adulthood and senior years. The third artist was Nellie Kranz Edwards her inspirational Pro Life piece was entitled “ The Zygote of Christ” she did a magical depiction of the zygote with small images of Christ with his halo in various stages of development. Thank you for reading!
The title of my piece is Rainbow Swirl. The materials used are : clay, paper, tissue paper, cloth , ink, and
acrylic paint. The piece was made by line-no-cutting a swirl pattern then transferring it onto clay. I paint
the clay piece with green, pink and brown stripes. It then was fired in the kiln . I used the line-no-cut to
print copies of the pattern on other materials with ink. I used many different combinations of ink color
and materials. I then arranged the prints and clay piece into a sculpture. I used radial balance to make
an interesting piece. I hot glued the prints in a circle using color theory to balance the piece by putting
commentary colors across from each other.
acrylic paint. The piece was made by line-no-cutting a swirl pattern then transferring it onto clay. I paint
the clay piece with green, pink and brown stripes. It then was fired in the kiln . I used the line-no-cut to
print copies of the pattern on other materials with ink. I used many different combinations of ink color
and materials. I then arranged the prints and clay piece into a sculpture. I used radial balance to make
an interesting piece. I hot glued the prints in a circle using color theory to balance the piece by putting
commentary colors across from each other.