Skip to main content

In Light of The Body

          The paintings and photographs in this art gallery were by Gwen Hardie and Regina DeLuise. Although these two artists were featured in the same gallery, the did not initially collaborate to make their art similar. I think this aspect of the gallery was pretty cool how they created similar work, found each other, and then ended up in an art gallery together. I believe that the back and forth between photographs and skin tones makes for an interesting combination. Both the photos and paintings of skin seemed to evoke some sort of emotion from everyone in the room, even those who believed that the skin looked like planets.
          The circles of skin tones were placed all around the room and each had a different color scheme. This smooth gradient-like oil painting was an interesting representation of skin. Usually, individuals may think of skin as textured, and may include lines or hair. If this was included in Hardie's depiction of the skin it would give the paintings a completely different meaning. Her paintings evoke warm, familiar feelings, due to the smooth gradient, but if these other features were included, like Hardie mentioned, it could lead people view these images in a sexual way. In my opinion, the close proximity in the photographs with the gentle facial expressions paired with the calmness and familiarity of the skin compliment each other well.
          Overall, this gallery depicts the diversity in the world with the skin tones ranging from light to dark around the room. In addition to this, many cultures are included in the photographs. The picture above shows how smoothly the colors are blended together. I really like how you can still see some smaller spots in the painting because skin is not 100% perfect nor only one color. Below, I put a couple of my favorite pictures from the gallery. I think that these pictures tell a story to whoever is looking at it and they are intriguing because everyone's way of looking at them could be different due to their individual experiences. Watching Hardie talk about her skin paintings and how passionate she was made me appreciate the work more than I initially did walking into the gallery.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Post-Modernism

"The explosion of new communications technologies and the continuing fragmentation of cultures into thousands of little cultures has forced us to view our world as simultaneously expanding and shrinking." This sentence really stuck out to me from the Postmodernism introduction reading. This got me thinking about how technology affects the world today. Due to the expansion of technology we are able to communicate around the world and gain information about other cultures with the click of a button. This expansion is happening at the same time that face to face communication and real experiences are becoming much less. I think this is what Post-modern theorist, Jean Baudrillard, was trying to get at with "The Death of the Real." "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, which in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of stimulation....
Post a Comment
Read more

Colors- Radiolab Podcast

               This podcast begins with the discussion of Isaac Newton trying to discover if the color is within or outside the mind. Most people know his experiments with the prism, but I did not know that he stuck something into his eye to try to discover the answer that question. I find this disturbing and interesting that he would choose to do this. Eventually, his experimenting led to the findings of what we know today.       I thought that many of the points that were made in this podcast were very interesting. It surprised me that all humans/animals see different variations of colors. Dogs only see blues and greens. They do not have the cone for red. This one cone that they do not have adds such a limitation on colors. On the other side of this, sparrows can see more than us. They can see ultraviolets. In addition, butterflies have 7 photoreceptors, and a mantis shrimp has 16, while humans only have 3. Also, I thought it...
Post a Comment
Read more

Visibility by Italo Calvino

          The beginning of this chapter, Visibility , deals with the topic of Dante, and the way that he describes the cycles of Purgatory. It also talks about the aspects of imagination and high fantasy. I read Dante's Inferno back in high school for extra credit and from reading that I can say that book included various aspects of symbolism, metaphors, and eloquent language. Imagination and deep thought were necessary to be able to understand more than just the gist of the story, especially due to the complex ideas and descriptive thoughts.           On page 83 of Visibility , Calvino describes that the poet has to "imagine visual content of metaphors he uses to facilitate this process of visual evocation." I believe this is necessary not only for poets, but also other writers, readers, artists and others when trying to depict something visually. He then goes on to describe the two types of imaginative processes. One that has to do w...
Post a Comment
Read more