Art Reflection Analysis

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On the 14th of March, my partner, Jasmine Lusk and I went to the Collin College Spring Creek campus Art Gallery. We viewed several pieces of art and chose five of them to review and share our opinions of the works with each other. I am glad that I got this experience and I feel that it has truly broadened my perspective of art and has helped me examine pieces and situations in a different way. Before going to the gallery, I expected to see a bunch of paintings of nature scenes and maybe a couple of portraits. This is a misconception about art in our society today. A lot of people nowadays think that art still conforms to the Classical or Renaissance style, but in reality there are many forward thinking artists that are unconventional and are not afraid to make a bold expression in their art. My partner and I saw art that really made you think about what was going through the artist 's head while creating the piece, something that you do not necessarily think about while viewing conventional art, such as a painting of a forest or portrait. All of the artwork that …show more content…

The piece was created in 2016 by Alex “Al” Johnson, and is called Supper Time. This was by far my favorite artwork we saw and I felt that it represented how valuable water is to some people, especially clean, drinkable water. The first thing that came to mind is some third-world countries, where clean water is almost a precious as gold. You may also recall an event that is happening right now, the Flint Water Crisis, where residents of Flint, Michigan do not have clean drinking water coming out of their faucets at home, and in some cases, getting drinkable water is as hard to find as gold. Also, I feel that it attacks people who value gold as if it is a resource that you cannot live without. My partner thought it represented a gold bar of soap that showed how unique it is to be pure and

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