Descriptive Essay On Kaa Walker

The artist’s Kara Walker was born 1969, in Stockton, California. Her influence to draw came from the stories she would hear about slavery, they were “rich and epic…and titillating” so, she start making art about slavery society and culture. Her techniques used in silhouettes, paintings, drawings, and landscapes were watercolors, adhesive, cut paper, paint, chalk, ink, gouache, and a projector. The visual aspects of her artwork include curve lines, positive shapes, dark hue, light hue, implied lines, negative shapes, a light balance, hatching, smooth texture, complementary colors, and a life size scale. The drawings, black figures, and painting techniques of Kara Walker symbolize the abuse and negligence of African Americans when they were brought by the British colonies in 1619. Walker ambitions are to make others aware of this horrific event by seeing it as “a dialogue […] of a racial struggle.” However, in

Her hair is nappy and slightly covered in a bandanna. One of her hands are pointing to a small child eating a large bone. The connection between the woman and the young child, is the burden of the elder carrying a white child will soon be the burden for the young child. Also, the woman lips are huge and chewing a straw. The chewing of the straw considers the elder being frustrated and impatient with the child riding on her back. Her technique used is adhesive on the wall, black cut paper, and a projection. The background of the silhouettes exhibit has warm colors, and trees arching along the path to the unknown. Her visual elements are circles, straight thin lines, curved lines, triangles, and positive shapes. Walker identify her pieces as “making depth” the illusion of the audience standing there seeing their own shadow bouncing off a wall by the light of the projectors. Therefore, the audience can visually see themselves in the