Kathryn Polk’s prints reference a lot of memories she dealt with throughout her life. As shown in most of her artwork, you can see numerous symbolic images in her compositions. Each symbolic image holds a lot of meaning and importance to her work and vision. There are many events that influence and inspire her art like, music, friends, family, and memories. All of these different aspects of her life helped her develop each prints, expressing her ideas. She also inspires other artists through her unique techniques and skills that make her artwork differ from others. Kathryn Polk lithographs; paintings and drawings are narratives of her personal life experiences. Kathryn Polk was born in 1952, in Memphis, Tennessee. Where she also studied at the Memphis Art Academy and then attended the University of Memphis, which is also where she found her husband Andrew Polk. They both currently live in Tucson, Arizona where they are both co-owners of L VIS Press, a lithography print studio. When she made it to Arizona, which is mostly populated with Native Americans, she dealt with a split between them because of their different life experiences. Her Native American friends would always tell her that she would never understand their life, because she is not an indigenous woman. Indigenous means, originating naturally into a country or native. She began to get use to hearing that statement and began to understand it and accept it more. Seeing it as only knowing the lifestyle of a non-indigenous woman, in which help creates her whole philosophy for her art (Polk, Lecture). The simple influence from her friends helped her to start and empower her vision as an artist. Another influence Kathryn has is from music. All her life she dealt with peop... ... middle of paper ... ... great to gain knowledge of. Her lithographs and prints makes you want to try printmaking. Though she just began making these prints in her fifties, it shows how it is never too late to start or create your ideas. Kathryn is truly inspiring and artwork shares her life stories, experiences, and beliefs. Works Cited Frank, Patrick. Art forms. California: Pearson, 2011. Print. Mair, Moray. “Kathryn Polk’s Lithographs Are Beautiful Works of Art.” Mutant Space, 16 July. 2013. Web. 25 March. 2014. Polk, Kathryn. Lithograph. 2013. Arizona. Deliver Us From Evil. Web. 16 July. 2013. Polk, Kathryn. “Non-Indigenous Woman.” My Daily Posts as a Practicing Artist. Blog Spot, 11 December 2013. Web. 25 March 2014. Polk, Kathryn. “The RECEPTION.” Arts of Ohio. Mitchell Auditorium, Athens. Thursday October 2013. Lecture.
In her second year, Vera became one of Varley’s drawing students. The two became close over the years, but it wasn’t until her postgraduate years at VSDAA that their relationship flourished. As a “shy and beautiful” young woman who “moved with a grace” similar to that of a Japanese Tea party, Molly Bobak Lamb remarks that it was easy for men to become infatuated with Vera’s. Varley’s Vera paintings success as a Willingdon Prize winner, a collection piece at the National Gallery of Canada, and eventually praised with its creation into a postage stamp only confirms Molly’s suggestion of Vera’s enchanting capabilities.
In the words of Ross, her focus and goal for writing this book was to write “…about the racialized and gendered experiences of incarceration, with a focus on Native American women and the loss of sovereignty as it is implicitly tied to Native criminality…” because there was little information on this subject. This means that Ross studied wo...
Katherine Dunham, born on June 22, 1909 was an African American dancer. Her mother Fanny June Dunham died when she became sick and her father Albert Dunham Sr., left to work as a salesman. Dunham and her older brother Albert Jr., were raised by their loving aunt Lulu on the ghetto side of Chicago. At four years old, Dunham would go to the salon, her aunt’s workplace, and would always remember how much her mother loved music. It was not long before that when Katherine noticed how people would look at her aunt because of the color of her skin. It was why Lulu lost her job and had to move in with other relatives as her aunt could not afford their little apartment anymore. They moved several times with Dunham family members, where Katherine discovered
"Lynda Barry." Lynda Barry: Spring 2012 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 2012. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.
Kara Walker’s Silhouette paintings are a description of racism, sexuality, and femininity in America. The works of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an African American artist and painter, are touched with a big inner meaning. A highlight of the picture displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco will be discussed and the symbolism of the sexuality and slavery during the Atlantic slavery period will be enclosed. The modern Art Museum has works of over 29,000 paintings, photos, design and sculptures among others. The use of black Silhouette is her signature in the artistic career.
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Georgia O’Keeffe is an artist known for her paints of flowers, skyscrapers, and landscapes from New York. She is recognized as the mother of American modernism. Georgia O’Keeffe has always been a name I remember from my art classes in middle school. We had to talk about a piece of art in class each week and I kept finding myself doing her paintings. The way she uses color and the detail of her flowers is so perfect. The reason I chose to do Georgia O’Keeffe is she is a well-known artist and when think of art, I think of her. I have always thought of Georgia as interesting artist. Not being much of an art guy, something about her paintings makes me interested in her work. I like that she is so simply with her work and she paints very beautiful pieces of work, I’m excited to look more into her work, and get to learn a little more about art. I feel like I hear this quote a lot connected with art, O’Keeffe says many times through out her life “ I found that I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way----things I had no words for.”
Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American from New Mexico and is part of the Laguna tribe. She received a MacArthur "genius" award and was considered one of the 135 most significant women writers ever. Her home state has named her a living cultural treasure. (Jaskoski, 1) Her well-known novel Ceremony follows a half-breed named Tayo through his realization and healing process that he desperately needs when he returns from the horrors of World War II. This is a process that takes him back to the history of his culture.
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This pieces of artwork are captivating, still puzzling, and somewhat inscrutable. It is really amazing to behold the work of a woman who unveiled a great artistic strategy and prowess in creating this enigmatic piece of artwork. What a sweet way to tell a disheartening story, creating admiration in something that could rather tear one apart. You made a great choice and I really appreciate your great articulation in a piece of work such as this. It took me down to the lane of history. What really made you consider Kara Walker as a contemporary artist?
...rs to the literary world. She was one of the few writers of her time to freely write about women openly searching for fulfillment in their lives. Kate’s last published novel The Awakening is such a brilliant story of a married woman seeking individuality and love that people in the male dominant society harshly critiqued which resulted in the termination of Kate’s career.
According to Wikipedia, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation or poem that is found at the beginning of a document. In other words, “An epigraph is a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece having a few sentences but which belongs to another writer” (“Epigraph”, n.d.). It serves as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example. And use of such quotation at the beginning hint at its theme. In the similar way, Anita Desai, Indian novelist, has made use of two epigraphs in her novel ‘Clear Light of Day’ (1980) from Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot. With the use of her excellent nature imagery and symbols in the novel, her epigraph in the starting gives the reader an insight to the theme the novel is preoccupied with.