Tara Donovan is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York who creates sculptural installation art pieces out of everyday simple objects, such as plastic cups, paper plates, pencils, straws, and polyester film. Donovan transforms these ordinary everyday objects into large-scale installations which in some cases create a depiction of nature resembling landscape scenes, including mountains glaciers, icicles, rocks, and more. When Donovan was interviewed by Daniel Comiskey, he asked her, “Why use materials like electrical cable and plastic cups?” Donovan’s response was, “Everyday materials are easy to get and inexpensive. It's not really a commentary on the materials themselves. My interest in them is the shape, the transparency. It becomes …show more content…
The definition of unity is, the total effect of a work by all the components coming together to create a sense of oneness. Donovan’s installation definitely has a sense of oneness, which is mastered by the light shining through the back of the piece to create depth. The definition of rhythm is a sense of movement achieved through repetition of the artwork’s components. Rhythm is created through the endless loops and folding of the polyester film over and over again. Even though, every fold and layer is not identical, it still has a sense of rhythm throughout the piece. The definition of balance in art is the way the components of the art piece are arranged to portray a sense of equilibrium. Balance is seen in the work as the entire piece is similar in its entirety. One side of the piece is not emphasized more than the other side. The definition of emphasis is the focal point of an art piece, which is created to draw the interest of the viewer to a specific point. The emphasis in this piece is the bright white light shining through in the middle of the piece. It draws the viewer’s eye in and then the viewer can span out to the rest of the piece and then view in its …show more content…
It is interesting the way it changes throughout the day, depending on the light outside shining through the piece. It is amazing how Donovan can take every day non consequential items and turn them into something beautiful and special to see. An exhibit by Tara Donovan would be an exhibit worth seeing as it is something unusual and sparks the imagination. Many of her installations are able to be moved, from one gallery to another, but do to the size some of her work simply gets demolished and then she builds another one from scratch in a new home and each time it changes depending on the dimensions of the new space (“Tara Donovan”). It is astonishing that each piece of art is made up solely by one specific object, whether it is cups, pencils, tape, index cards, or polyester film. The only other elements Donovan uses to create her art is the necessities needed to band the medium together, such as glue. According to Helena Winston, writer of “Tara Donovan,” “Leaning toward traditions of surrealism, minimalism, and process art, Donovan's work clearly plays on geometric abstraction and the monochrome. But more than anything else, she is a bricoleur who directs our attention toward the possibilities of everyday creativity. When we look anew at the mundane we realize how malleable any form is. One thing learned from Tara Donovan’s work is that something interesting and
Our attention is drawn down by the diagonal light ray coming down from the top center of the painting to first the young girl in the green dress and the rest of the musicians. Our gaze is further directed to these same musicians by the flute played by the shirtless angel-like man.
It was a little girl’s second Christmas and, although she does not remember now, she was so excited to open the big red package from grandma. She ripped open the package and the soft, handmade brown bear went poof in her hands. She has kept the ratty, old bear not for its beauty but because it has sentimental value of a simpler time. Like this example, many people have memories of items they grew up with that have more than monetary value, most people forget the real value of these items, however, and commercialize them as art or sell them away as junk in garage sales. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” we are shown a vivid example of what can happen when people take these once treasured items for granted. Walker’s character Dee/Wangero is an estranged daughter and sister who has not seen her family for six years reappears at her mother’s home to take away her family’s most sentimentally valuable possessions. Because Wangero’s view of her own heritage has been skewed and distorted by her peers, Wangero forgets the value of her mother’s possessions in an attempt to impress her contemporaries. Through Wangero, Walker reveals how misunderstanding one’s heritage can lead him to search for his place in a fake legacy invented to help him reconcile his misunderstanding of his own origins, and can even cause him to cheapen his family heritage because of a desire to stand out among his peers.
In 2011, Donna Hicks wrote her book Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict. Hicks’ Ph.D. in educational psychology and twenty years of experience in international conflict resolution allowed her to write this text about psychological injuries to a person 's sense of self-worth. In her text, Donna Hicks discusses the damaging effects a negative authoritative figure could have, especially on young children and their dignity. Also mentioned is how impressionable children can be and how those impressions can follow them into adulthood. The author’s intended audience appears to be anyone interested in remedying their psychological injuries and improving their sense of self-appreciation. Hicks’ reasoning for composing this text
In "Everyday Use," Alice Walker stresses the importance of heritage. She employs various ways to reveal many aspects of heritage that are otherwise hard to be noticed.
When I entered through the main gallery entrance, the first thing that I noticed was this colorful glass sculpture in the middle of the room. I was in awe at how beautiful the sculpture was and the way how the light was reflected on the sculpture really emphasized the
The second exhibit entitled Painting with Fire: Works by Betsy Eby. I didn’t spend much time looking at these pieces. Although uniquely done, with heated colored beeswax, and inspired by music, all the artworks looked almost the same. I understand she was inspired by music, however, it looks as if she was listening to the same song on every piece. I wasn’t very impressed with this exhibit.
Many might have been working on Good Friday, but many others were enjoying The Frist Museum of Visual Arts. A museum visitor visited this exhibit on April 14, 2017 early in the morning. The time that was spent at the art museum was approximately two hours and a half. The first impression that one received was that this place was a place of peace and also a place to expand the viewer’s imagination to understand what artists were expressing to the viewers. The viewer was very interested in all the art that was seen ,but there is so much one can absorb. The lighting in the museum was very low and some of the lighting was by direction LED lights. The artwork was spaciously
...an picking the artifacts. Although I did learn about William Morris and his designs in my history classes I learnt about the concept behind his design decisions and in depth analysis of Morris’s evolution as a designer only when I started working on this exhibit. It is imperative that you do research before arriving on any decision in regard to putting up any exhibit. Furthermore after analyzing the different options, it is imperative that you have facts to back up your decisions of the artifacts chosen. Every artifact that you pick for your case should have direct relation to your concept and it should be consistent among all artifacts. Overall a lot of thought should be put into the exhibit and the concept must reflect the ideas distinctly.
In addition, the use of spot lighting also draws more attention to the pieces, especially in dimly lit rooms. I feel that it would also be appropriate to set an intimate, feminine ambiance, which relates to the fact that the artwork celebrates female influence. I want the audience to feel like they’re stepping into the House of Invention and perhaps even discover some revelations about themselves. As the audience circulate through the exhibit, they will feel the mystic and protection of the art and culture Indigenous artists such as Christian Chapman and Norval Morrisseau have been fighting to preserve. The exhibit will be the Future of the House of Invention, which could also serve as the
The theme can be generally recognized in this piece through color, space, and especially through use of light. The colors used in this piece are mostly calm toned, whereas the robes and shawls worn are pale blues, corals, and beiges. There are however, some harsh colored objects such as Mary’s navy blue shaul and deep coral gown, as well as Christ’s coral necklace that stand out from the rest of the colors. Mary’s veil and the angel on the lefts’ hair are translucent in certain streams of light coming from the windows throughout the room. The artists suggests that the light is dedicated not to represent the divine but to rather represent a more natural juxtaposition on the piece. The space that the characters stand in is fully used by the subjects but also has a very interesting doorway with heightened perspecti...
Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese installation artist who is widely known for captivating viewers with her immense thread installations. Through the combination of complex networks of string and used possessions that carry with them personal stories, Shiota is able to explore the connection that exists between objects and memory, as well as the past and the present. So, by taking a moment to carefully analyze Shiota’s work and its intricacies, the meaning of it all can easily be deciphered. As with all of Chiharu Shiota’s thread installations, her 2016 installation titled Absent Bodies is site-specific and immersive.
...hese repeated vertical lines contrast firmly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, seems unchanging and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have a lot of depth to them.
In the sculptures, Buddha with Wall by Rachel Harrison and Patrick by Oliver Herring, the artist’s use distinctive materials such as digital e-prints and Portland cement. Both artists’ are also aware of the size, orientation, and the relation to the surrounding space in order to create realistic statues needing to be viewed from all points. Harrison and Oliver created their sculptures differently and more complex than normal sculptures. Oliver uses over a million different photos of his model, Patrick, in order to cut each photo and create a three- dimensional image with all of the photos. This allows a close up to his model’s hair, skin, and so much more.
The use of materials to complement a design’s emotional reaction has stuck with the modernist movement. His implementation of these materials created a language that spoke poetically as you move through the structure. “Mies van der Rohe’s originality in the use of materials lay not so much in novelty as in the ideal of modernity they expressed through the rigour of their geometry, the precision of the pieces and the clarity of their assembly” (Lomholt). But one material has been one of the most important and most difficult to master: light. Mies was able to sculpt light and use it to his advantage.
How elements work together in this piece? What principles of composition are employed there? Composition has just a handful of specific principles: balance (symmetric/asymmetric), rhythm, proportion, scale, unity, variety and emphasis. You won't get lost. 1.