This is a painting created in 2002 by Kara Walker called The Rich Soil Down There depicting sexual, physical, and mental abuse of African Americans in the south in the 19th century. Using black and white silhouettes, Kara implied certain abusive situations by making common objects stand for other objects pertaining to a certain event (body parts etc.). I really liked the silhouette aspect of it and the smooth blackness of how it was made. Therefore to incorporate this into a painting, I decided to
outline each individual part in my painting in black to make a smooth border to emphasize it.
This is a painting by David McGee called Unbleached American done on Gouache on paper in 1998. The main theme of this painting is about African Americans being brought to the U.S. and how they originally were as people rich with culture, and then became corrupted by white society. I really like the African culture and how thy paint their faces in colorful and meaningful designs for many different occasions. I decided to make a face that is somewhat similar to this (a painted face with a series of different colors).
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This is a painting using acrylic paints called Blue Green Yellow Orange Red (Blue panel) created in 1968 by Ellsworth Kelly. The theme of this painting is to focus on the different colors and how it corresponds with the world around us. Most of Ellsworth’s paintings are simply extremely abstract paintings to buildings, objects, landscape etc. by taking the main colors of certain objects and making that color stand out for it in a series. I love the idea of colors standing for a message, idea or object. Therefore, I decided to use this general color scheme to represent the creative side of the right brain and the cool logical side of the left brain.
Works Cited
"Guggenheim." Collection Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.
"MFA Boston Opens a New Contemporary Wing." Roycroft Design. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.
"Unbleached American." Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.
"Guggenheim." Collection Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.
"MFA Boston Opens a New Contemporary Wing." Roycroft Design. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.
"Unbleached American." Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 June 2015.