Art Portfolio 2018

The general idea of this presentation was to raise recognition for people called catadores .  These are people who go around their towns/cities collecting recyclable materials.  They then bring these materials to a junkyard to sell for low prices.  Mundano, a street artist, took to his graffiti artwork to the Carroças.  Carro ças are carts that are made out of either wood or metal.  He did this because he wanted to raise awareness for the catadores.  Eventually, he began a crowdfunded event called "Pimp My Carro ças."  This is where the catadores are able to get their carro ças renovated, access different types of professionals, and gain protective wear. My personal thoughts on this concept of using art to raise awareness for someone(s)/something(s) is a very positive.  I believe that there are many effective ways for raising awareness for a cause.  I think that visuals such as art is one of the more effective ways.  I believe this bec...

A diptych was originally two paintings that were hinged together.  These were often of religious origins.  When a triptych is applied to photography is when three images are displayed in one photo, or three separately framed images presented very closely together.  This diptych uses variety.  There are a variety of different colors and the I like the rhythm that it has. This triptych has a good example of contrast.  There is contrast between all the different colors.  The colors make each other stand out, and pleases the eye.

An example of a piece of artwork that moves is of the Rube Goldberg contraptions.  The contraptions make one reaction trigger the next one until the final task is completed.

Social justice is a concept that come about in the early nineteenth century when the Industrial Revolution was still in effect.  As well as when other small civil revolutions were taking place in Europe.  This concept aimed to create more equal societies and to counteract the capitalistic exploitation of human labor.  Early social justice advocates focused primarily on capital, property, as well as the distribution of wealth.  Eventually, as social justice continued to expand, in the mid twentieth century social justice had begun to cover things such as: the environment, race, gender, and other places that had inequality. Favianna Rodriguez:  A visual artist who is recognized for her poster print.  Her work addresses social justice issues from the war of reproductive justice.  Her work has become particularly recognized in the immigrant justice movement.

Artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born in 1910 in Utopia, Australia, and died on Sept. 6, 1996.  She didn't start painting until she was in her 70s, and was still considered one of the country's greatest artists.  In my opinion, Emily's work doesn't really create any specific image(s).  It is abstract and very colorful.  I like the different colors she uses as they give you a nice warm feeling. Artist John Mawumdjul was born in 1954 near Mumeka.  He is a Kuninjku bark painter and sculptor and has received recognition for his work worldwide.  John got tutored in painting during the 1970s by his older brother Jimmy Njiminjuma and uncle Peter Marralwanga.  In my opinion, in the work of Mawumjul a lot of the creatures portrayed are almost demonic like.  He uses a lot of the same color schemes throughout his work.

Aboriginal painting uses a lot of smaller circles of different colors and thin lines to make up a picture.  Some ways to describe this style of painting is unique and abstract.  I believe that it is abstract because the way the picture is made up of mostly smaller circles instead of the usual lines.  I believe that this form of painting is very beautiful and I like all the different colors that are used in this style of work.

Eduardo Kobra is a Brazilian street artist.  He uses a kaleidoscope effect in his work repeating squares and triangles to make pictures of famous people.  He uses a variety of bright colors, textures, lines, and shading. I like how Kobra uses the kaleidoscope effect in his work to create an image.  I also like all the different colors that he uses in his work.  I find the size of his work to be impressive considering the types of images he creates.