Midterm Art Examples Flashcards
Boy
Painting by Symeon Shimin in Who Look at Me
Mirrors June Jordan’s back cover portrait
Color on front cover
Inside the book in B&W along with other male self portraits by other painters
Clotheslines
Creativity in context
Negotiation of will and circumstance
Laundry can be considered art
Dream poem #1
Painting by Ficre
Uses many languages and alphabets
Connects directly to his wife who helped curate his paintings when he passed
Important bc he spoke many languages, and this is like connecting his pasts into one
Garret Room
Painting in Who Look at Me
Painted by Andrew Wyeth
“Garret” is a small attic… title emphasizes how Tom Clark is lying in a confined space
Contrasts with the colorful quilt made by Tom Clark’s grandmother
Poetic lines to describe it:
Look at the stranger as
He lies more gray than black
On that color quilt
That
(Everyone will say)
Seems bright beside him
Jambo Means Hello
Children’s book by Tom and Muriel Feelings in Kiswahili
Collaborative aesthetics
Won Caldecott Honor Award
Type of abecedarian (alphabet as a structure)
Tom Feelings creating art for Jambo
Makes a drawing and transfers to rough textured board in pencil
Goes over drawing w pen filled w water soluble black ink
Paints areas of picture that will be light/highlighted in final painting w white water based tempera paint
Lays wet sheet of tissue paper over complete board
Black ink and white tempera run together
While tissue is still wet he paints ink washes into darker areas and more white tempera into lighter areas
Rewets and paints as needed
Linseed oil used to accent dark areas and bring out parts of base line drawing
Photographed twice
Printed in ochre to maintain warmth of original art (bc B&W doesn’t have same effect)
June Jordan’s Childhood Photo
Crops out another person, probably her cousin Valerie
Light of the World
Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander about Ficre Ghebreyesus, her husband who passed 2012
“The story begins” Alexander writes repeatedly
Story of life, love, loss, and afterlife
Book covers
Cropped one: Sardine Fisherman’s Funeral
Boat one: Solitary Boat in Red and Blue
Reflects collaborative aesthetics
NC Pottery
Material culture case study
Self taught - polite term implying they didn’t have access to formal education
Themes
History
Natural environment
Regional identity
Art and beauty
Collaboration and family
Community and individuality
Old Edgefield - location of pottery creation
Salt-glaze users
Sid Luck - fifth generation potter
Mark Hewitt
David Drake
Nsodie
memorial head, akan, ghana
Quilts of Gee’s Bend
Quilts created that survived sm history like slavery
What distinct meanings, or stories, might a quilt communicate in different contexts of display (for ex: spread on a bed, hung in a dining room, framed on a museum gallery wall)?
What is the value of this quilt across diff contexts, and how does it acquire that value?
What is the role of tradition in this story? What keeps a tradition alive - making things to be sold? To be displayed? To be used?
What objects do you need, or do you choose, to tell your stories? What objects in your everyday life (or home) do you consider art or not, and why?
Quilters
Mary Lee Bendolph
Lucy Mingo
Loretta Pettway
Slave Market
Painting in Who Look at Me by anonymous artist
Detail of mother clinging to her son
Cuts out the whip
What poetic lines come before this paining:
We come from otherwhere
Victim to a rabid cruel cargo crime
To separate and rip apart
The trusting members of one heart
My family
I looked for you
I looked for you
(Slavery:) the insolence
What poetic lines come after this paining:
Came to frontiers
Of paralyze highways
Freedom strictly underground
Came here to hatred hope labor love
And lynchlength rope
Came a family to a family
Sloop, Bermuda
Watercolor painting in Who Look at Me by Winslow Homer
Sailors and there’s a detail
What poetic lines come before this painting:
Look
Black sailors on the light
Green sea the sky keeps blue
The wind blows high
And hard at night
For anyhow anywhere new
Who Look at Me
Children’s book written by June Jordan
What question does the book begin with?
Who would paint a people black or white?
What lines are centered and central?
I am black alive and looking back at you.
We make a music marries room to room.
Who does she name in the dedication of her book?
Christopher, her son
