Doris Salcedo Installation

For my research I visited the memorial for the victims and heroes of 911. The location for this grand and majestic art piece is in downtown Toms River. “Wow, the art I discovered was just so beautiful.” On a cold December morning in 2015 I took a short ride to Downtown Toms River. As soon as I pulled

Artists use their artworks to communicate different meanings and transfer specific messages to the audience. Their artworks can be presented in different forms like architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery and many other forms. Each artwork contains a specific meaning which is usually based on the artist 's beliefs, culture, identity and the nature surrounding us. Rona Rubuntja from the Hermannsburg Potters, Bronwyn Oliver, Christo and Jeanne Claude each presented their art in different forms but they all communicate meanings and ideas to the audience. Rona Rubuntja who is a senior member of the Hermannsburg Potters and her famous pottery work ‘I 'm Black’ for the exhibition ‘Our Land is Alive’ at the National Gallery of

The exhibit I observed was the Michael Brown and Lesley McSpadden art piece. This particular piece stood out to me once I took a glance into her eyes and saw pain. The artist of the exhibit was Aaron Fowlers he was born in 1988 in St. Louis where the tragic event took place, but currently lives and works in Harlem, NY. Aaron Fowlers installation describes the eulogy that Michael Brown mother delivered for her son which whom was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. This piece was made from using mix media and a variety of cool colors.

Built in 1989, this sculpture is a fine piece of art, as it commemorates the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who travelled across the southwestern border from Mexico into the United States looking for a new start and a life of higher quality post World War II. This single sculpture is of a man crossing the border while carrying a woman on his shoulders. Something that cannot be caught in the first glimpse, but has to be deeply looked into is that fact that the woman is bearing a crying infant in her arms, sheltering the child from harm, which relates to the situation.

Lee Bontecou is most famously known for her extraordinary sculptures and drawings. Almost all of her works remain untitled; she leaves that up to the audience to interpret. The sculpture that is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is untitled and was created in the year nineteen sixty-one. Lee Bonteou’s medium is very specific. Her style is very industrial she is big on welding and using raw materials such as canvas, copper wire, rawhide, and soot. The Artist was born in nineteen thirty-one in Rhode Island and grew up in a time were there was a lot of tension and war. She was very aware of what was going on in the United Stares as well as other countries around the world. The year she

the memorial then drawn by the young student in architecture Yale University is today the most visited monument and the most revered in the USA, recognized as a masterpiece architectural (Langmead, 2011). Hundreds of thousands of visitors are excited and comforted by reading and touching the names of the dead and missing inscribed on the black granite wall in form V. In view of the visitors and memories they file with the names of their dear departed, the observer must recognise that Maya Lin has achieved its goal: "This memorial is dedicated to those who are not here; for that we remember them” (Fleming,

When one listens to Anne Wagner telling history about the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Creation that Maya Lin created and designed, it assist one in appreciating and understanding her work. This is because Maya Lin used natural material as well as recyclable substances to address environmental issues that people could easily recognize. As an artist, environmentalist as well as sculptor, she carved haunting and beautiful imagery to represent the results of environment destruction. Maya Lin won Vietnam veterans memorial competition since she created a wound on the earth to account for the loss of soldiers as well as the gravity of the war in Vietnam but unfortunately the design became controversial. I understand that Maya Lin defended the design and finished and as a result, it the most appreciated and visited memorial. I appreciate her effort to defend her design from prominent Politicians and businessmen harassment to have the memorial set up. I trust that her choice to communicate through art is effective especially when using environment since it is a language that is simply understood globally. When one view her work that is of environmental concern it gives the viewer a sense of togetherness since everyone is responsible for the

In the age of terror, Contemporary artist enagge in politics, transform public space to build community by

This piece was created during a time of political and social change. Increased political awareness and a focus on celebrity demanded art that was more

A symbol is an object that represents something else, especially something abstract. Around the world, there are many animals that have various symbols across different cultures. For instance, serpents, reptiles that have an eerie appearance, have been an archetype across countless civilizations. This animal is a global symbol that represents either negative or positive energy, and sometimes provides balance between the two. In this report, the various interpretations of serpents will be explored.

As World War I started in 1914, countries prepared for battle. Women and men had different jobs of serving their own country during and after this war. Women replaced men in their civilian jobs of mechanics, clerks, and other occupations. This allowed women to be in fields that they were usually not working in. Ebbert & Hall (2002) state women also had been recruited into serving the Navy and Marine Corps. There were men that apposed to give the women equal pay as their male counterparts (p.59). Even documentation of the women who served was thought to be unnecessary (p.122). After the war where women and men have served and worked hard for their country, men would go back to expect employment and women were thought to go back

The piece I choose to critic is titled “Buscado por su madre” or “Wanted by his Mother” by Rafael Cauduro, no year. This piece is an Oil on Canvas painting that measured 48”x36” located at the Long Beaches MoLAA. The work is presented as one of a few Mexican artists that share an interest in their painting primarily figurative style, political in nature, that often narrated the history of Mexico or the indigenous culture. The painting is one of the first viewers see as they enter the Museum. It is at eye level and demonstrates a superb use of illusionistic realism that it creates the illusion of being real. The painting is of a old Missing poster of a man on a brick wall. What made it stand out in my eyes was the fact that it looked to be a three dimensional object on what looked like real bricks with the words wanted by mother on the top. Cauduro’s piece, in my eyes looked like he literally took a chunk out of a wall, and placed an old torn missing poster of a man on the front and put it out for display. Cauduro uses texture to represent the look of brick by applying thick strokes of paint creating a body of its own as and mimics the look and shape of brick. He also makes applies the same technique on the wanted poster by implying that it is old and torn by again layering his paint to create the

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

The Vogels had a personal and even private relationship with the artists they collected from in the sense that it didn’t matter if the artists were famous at the time or not, the Vogels were very passionate of the artists’ works. The Vogels grew a fond attachment to the artists as they wanted to watch the growth of their artwork every step of the way and see the evolution of their style. The Vogels were treated like family because they were personable and even made phone calls with artists every week and see what projects they’re working on and catch up like it was a sort of routine for them.

The problem of evil is often summarized as followed: If God is omnipotent (all powerful) and omnibenevolent (wholly good) there should be no evil. There is evil in the world, so God cannot be omnipotent or omnibenevolent or either. One of the earliest theologians to address the problem of evil is St. Augustine. In his book, On Free Choice of the Will Augustine states, “If man is a good, and cannot act rightly unless he wills to do so, then he must have free will, without which he cannot act rightly.” Augustine’s solution to the problem of evil is that God gives humans free will to do good or evil. The evil that humans do is the evil which is evident in the world. This shows that evil is not created by God, but instead evil exists because of