Friday, January 6, 2017

Art History

Look up Michael Ray Charles and Kara Walkers work and blog the following:
- 2+ Pieces of their work labeled 
- What do you admire about their work? What inspires you? (2+ sentences)
- 5+ Words or themes you see in their work.
- 3 ideas each, of how you could you use their work as inspiration

KARA WALKER


What do you admire about their work? What inspires you? (2+ sentences)
- I admire the simplistic and to the point visuals in her work. What inspires me is how clean it all looks. The lines, curves and cuts are all exact.
- 5+ Words or themes you see in their work.
- Contrast
- Haunted
- clean
- Scattered
- Black
- 3 ideas each, of how you could you use their work as inspiration 

- Her clear expression of ideas
- Using cut outs
- The work with black and white


RAY CHARLES 

- What do you admire about their work? What inspires you? (2+ sentences)
- The strong social messages
- What inspires me is the color makeup, and the run down circus style them
- 5+ Words or themes you see in their work.
- Rundown
-Parody
- Dark
- Deep contrast
- Racism
- 3 ideas each, of how you could you use their work as inspiration
- Odd blue and red coloration, emphasizes dark parody effect
- Using slogans from mainstream corporations 
- Advertisement poster style

PART - B
Untitled from Drypoint on Acid
Barry McGee

What do you admire about their work? What inspires you? (2+ sentences)
- Strong work with lines. What is inspiring is how they use th color contrast and lines to bring the viewer to certain highlights and compliments of the piece
- 5+ Words or themes you see in their work.

- Fade
- Dispair
- Caged
- uniform
-miserable 

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