Maya Lin is a driven and innovative artist of our time. Many of her works have been seen as controversial and received harsh criticism. She manages to trudge on. Her works express both an artistic and mathematical feel, somehow finding a beautiful marriage between. Her obsession with art and knowledge can be greatly attributed to her parents, as she was very successful at an early age. Her art career is one of many triumphs and breaking boundaries in the art world. Lin has a great love for nature, and many of her pieces help to express the significance of this, and she loves to enthrall the audience. Maya Lin was born on October 5th, 1959 in Athens, Ohio. Her parents immigrated from China to the United States, in 1949 before her birth, and their profession at Ohio University impacted her greatly. Her aunt was the first Chinese Architect and she spent much of her life at home with her older brother. She loved school and studying and had few close friends.Her father was Dean of Arts for Ohio University as well as a ceramics artist, where she was inspired by visits to his ceramics shop. Her mother was a poet along with talents in Asian and English Literature, who taught her prose. These factors, shaping her future, she expressed early interests in art and mathematics. She continued to prove herself as an exemplary student throughout her school career. Soon after high school she was accepted into Yale University, in Connecticut, and forced to choose between her two loves of art and architecture. She chose to major in architecture, but often would sneak into art school for sculpture classes. She was once heard to say, “I love architecture and... ... middle of paper ... ...owing us with her great works. She has led a driven and captivating career. While she has received much controversy in her time she has managed to continue creating great works. She is widely acknowledge, and so far through out her life, has made quite an impact. Her love of nature and in it’s importance is rippled through out all her work, mostly in the freedom of her later works. Her ability to maintain balance between her love for architecture and art, has helped to make her stand out in both crowds. Her sculptures will please viewers for centuries to come. Works Cited Chin-Lee,Cynthia. Amelia to Zora: 26 Women Who Changed The World.Charles Bridge, 2005. Ergas, G. Aimee. Artists: From Michaelangelo to Maya Lin. UXL, 1995 Lin, May. Boundaries. Simon and Schuster New York, 2000. Cotter, Holland. “Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain”. New York Times May 8: C23.
Though the start of artistic expression cannot be pinpointed to a specific date, the growth of art and its complexity cannot be denied. Two complex pieces of art which will be compared and contrasted within this essay are Mary Cassatt’s Portrait of the Artist and Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Monkey. Though Cassatt belonged the Impressionist movement (Streissguth 48) and Kahlo who was labeled as a member of the Surrealist movement, which she later denied (Stremmel, Kerstin, & Grosenick 1940), both paintings have an equal number of similarities as contrasting elements.
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City. Although she was born on July 7, 1907, she gave her birth date as July 7, 1910, t...
This book was a biography of Frida Kahlo that walked me through her life from birth to death. I used part of this book to help develop one of my genres, the to-do list. A section of this book discussed how Kahlo was in desperate need of something to distract herself from the trauma while in the hospital. She discovered painting and it helped relieve her of her constant and long-lasting pain.
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She transformed his art work into her own style and touch. Her art work is has introduced a new form of classical art work. She speaks through her art sculptures. She is a living women, with deep roots to humanity and feeling towards relationship, search of love and untold stories of human behaviors. Her work is consisting of representational bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings of the human body which tell the stories of our short coming, betrayal, selfishness, greed and materialistic approach. Her important art themes include display of renewal, self-discovery, liberation, confinement, freedom, balance, consciousness, spirituality, time, and evolution and other human behaviors
Frida Kahlo Born July 6, 1907, only three years prior to the Mexican Revolution, Frida Kahlo was a curious, wild, passionate girl who aspired to be a doctor. She grew up in a time in which a great creative movement began, one that would cause great transformation in Mexico. During and post the Revolution, Mexico transformed socially, politically, and culturally, giving itself a new identity of strength and solidarity. This is a crucial component to her life story, as she would later on lie about her birth date and claim it to be born in 1910 – giving herself the title of a child of the Revolution. Young Frida desired to learn and receive an education, and despite disapproval from her mother, applied to school and was among thirty-five girls accepted to the “Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.”
Lin's guides and who achieves to belief her work with an appealing mixture of wonder and respect, she really knows what she is doing and is able to clarify it in words that make sense to a arrange to listeners. She talks about her work in terms of isolated sorrow’s and public practices, and speaks of the releasing act of recovery that can come from pointed for the name of a loved one on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and walking up to it In each case,. She comes across in this film as being completely without doubt, yet free also of the heavy feeling of so many supporters, she is self- certain without being proud, and loyal to deeply related to the truths of politics and culture, that make Maya Lin's work as respectable as it is, and bring it outside social explanation, outside the field of community memorials, into the kingdom of realistic and long-term art.
Craftsman, planner and tree hugger, Maya Lin translates the common world through science, history, governmental issues, and culture, making a surprising and very acclaimed group of work in workmanship and design. Her works combine the physical and mental condition, displaying another method for seeing our general surroundings.
This article, will be exploring and analysing her work, and the detail of her astounding life and career.
The ways women and men are depicted in these visual sources are that they show affection for one another at a publicly. Their position gives off the physical attraction and connection. However, through this visual representation, there still was a sense of hierarchy presented in their roles of Maya society. Men were considered to be masculine, whereas women were given a reserved attitude that showed a lower, yet equally balanced pose to the elite circles. Despite the advantage, there was a contrasting perspective in regards to their “worth” in
Born in Mexico in 1907, she was a child when she was afflicted with poliomyelitis. At eighteen, Kahlo's life changed as a result of an accident. A collision between a bus and a street barrow caused a handrail to pierce Kahlo’s
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter of mixed heritage, born on July 6 1907, and lived a short life of 47 painful years before passing away on July 13, 1954.Throughout her life, she painted numerous profound self-portraits and ‘Is best known for a collection of highly emotive and deeply political paintings’ (Glass 239). There are two specific self-portraits that are absolutely breathtaking ‘Two Fridas, 1930’ and ‘Henry ford hospital, 1932’. The main theme in both of these paintings is ‘Identity’ and these paintings are a depiction of her physical pain and struggle, which are indeed a big part of her identity.
For as long as I could remember I have been fascinated with where women stand in the world; in politics, in military, in the home, basically everywhere. So, when I saw the artists the guerrilla girls on the list of artists we were allowed to write about I knew I had to write about them. I already had some previous knowledge as to who they were, what they stood for and what type of art they created, but when I did some more in depth research on them I was completely enraptured with the message they put into their work, the thought their art work provokes, their standing in the art world, and the way they carry themselves inside and outside the art world. The guerrilla girl’s art work is inspiring to me because I admire artwork that
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Frida Kahlo is one of history’s most iconic surrealist painters of the 20th Century. Her self-portraits that illustrate major events in her life are what made her name and style become recognisable among many today. Her artwork was created based on experiences she encountered from as young as age 18 and has developed its own way of retelling a story that was so prominent in her everyday life. The structural and personal frameworks that are found throughout her many paintings have all collectively revealed the in depth ideas and influences that she abided with. An excellent example of a painting for this is The Broken Column which was painted in 1946 just after she underwent surgery on her spine. The significant aspects that is seen in the painting