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Samantha Souke

 

    This painting is called slave ship by Joseph Mallard William Turner. It is an oil on canvas, made in 1840. In the painting the slaves are getting thrown overboard and the dead and dying typhoon coming on. In this painting I had to look at it and imagine what was in the water. But when I looked at it in a different way I saw many other things in the water. I saw feet, hands and slaves in the water with chains on them. I also saw big fish that were jumping out of the water. This time in the painting was when slavery happened. This painting represents equality. Slavery is when the white people didn't think the colored people should be treated the same way as them, so they made them work for them. I chose this piece because are tour guide told a story about this ship, and I was interested in all the colors. The sun setting in the back round, then in front was, the ship throwing off the slaves, with big fish jumping out of the water.

Samantha Souke

 This piece of work is called the Amiyose V, it was made in 1968, by Kay Sekimachi out of woven, nylon monofilament and plastic tubing. Sekimachi transforms our expectations of weaving using the loom to construct structural pieces woven separately on 8 harvests looms in a tubular structure with an inner core. The work appears as a form within a form.  This piece has no purpose to it. This work influences language because it shows how it is one of the pieces that is Made in America, but you wouldn't see anything like this in any of the Modern art exhibits. I chose this piece because I didn't know what it was because it has no figural shape to it it's just a piece of woven, nylon monofilament and plastic tubing. But this is why I liked this piece, it had no meaning to it.

Samantha Souke

    This sculpture is called the wing by Linda Bengalis, an american sculptor of the 1960s. It was made in 1970, out of cast aluminum. Benglis defined convention by painting monumental sculptures explaining "there painterly and yet there dimensional... I do think of my self as a painter." For pieces like wing Bengalis poured liquid polyurethane that hardened, freezing a gesture. This sculpture is a big, solid aluminum and it weighs about 800 pounds, and is about 8 feet tall. This sculpture influences literature because it keeps you thinking, on why its called the wing? I chose this piece of artwork because it cought my eye as soon as I went into the room. When I looked at it it gave me a question. Well, what exactly is it? It was called the wing, but it doesn't look like a wing at all.

Samantha Souke

   This painting is called The Bird Watcher by Amy Sillman. This painting is an oil on canvas used with pastel like colors. It was painted in 2004. Sillman paintings are intuitive messy and strange. Her color sense is carried by drips and slabs that seem spontaneous even though she works and reworks her paintings any time. She painted this painting to make the people look at the figures emerging from the simultaneously, chaotic and orderly surface to crowlike creatures purch to the right of a web footed figure with binoculars. Language influences this painting by showing how the people who look at this painting can picture this painting in anyway they want to let there minds read it. I chose this piece because I thought it was interesting that the painter, painted what made you think about the shapes she painted and what you think they look like and what they are, also i like the pastel colors she used to create the unusual figures.

Samantha Souke

 

     This is a painting called The Expulsion from the garden of Eden. It is an oil on canvas. This painting is by Thomas Cole. He was born in England. Cole painted this painting having displeased the lord by eating the forbidden fruit. They give them knowledge good or evil. This painting shows how Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden by disobeying and diseiving god. Cole told the story through the landscape. He contrasts the landscape as paradise lush and tropical with a harsh and violent external world. Adam and Eve are almost swallowed up by their natural drama and seemed propelled by the the shaft of light that represents gods power. Religion influences this painting, because it shows the beleifs in gods power between the nature of the two worlds. I chose this painting because as the tour guide explained the story through the painting it seemed interesting to learn more about, also in this painting I like how on one side it shows the colors of nature with bright colors as the 'paradise' an on the other side it shows the colors of the darker part of the world and how there is a darklife on that side that is oppisite than the other. Language influences this painting by showing how the people who look at this painting can picture this painting in anyway they want to let there minds read it. I chose this piece because I thought it was interesting the the painter painting what made you thing about the shapes she painted and what you think they look like.

Courtney Keery

This shrine was made by Anna Mitchell Richards and Martha Silsbee Fund in 1937. This sculpture is also a shrine probably made for the upper class. It's made of charcoal limestone and is in the shape of a house. I picked this piece because I've never seen a shrine that looked like this one I've only seen one that had a post kind of like a back board or a wall post. It's not shown in the picture but all around the house is surrounded by many black and gray stones and rocks making it look very peaceful and relaxing. The roof of the house looks like a sort of roof that a tiki house might have because of the way the lines resemble bamboo. The designs on the sides of the shrine resemble little pictures of different people. I don't think that was meant to come out of the design but that's what I see when I look at it. Although, at the same time, it kind of just resembles swirls and a lot of different shapes and designs. I think today, that shrine would be used as a kind of dog house because it's way too small to fit a human, but it's also just barely too big to fit a dog.