My favorite artist, Frida Kahlo, was on the list. I discovered her when I was living in Mexico. Seeing her paintings was the first time I truly could actually feel what was on the canvas. The research would be easy since I have a great biographical of her. But, I wanted to use this opportunity to learn about a style and artist I had never seen or heard of.
I chose Rene Magritte, a Belgian Surrealist/Futurist artist. I checked out some books from the campus library and have been looking and reading about some works on a website. I feel like I'm still getting the hang of what surrealism actually is. I have a loose grip of the meaning so I hope what I drew will be approved. Take a quick look at that link to see a few of his paintings, then check out my rough sketches to see if you think my drawings are done in his style.
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| top left: energy (the sun is replaced by the timepiece), top right: supposed to be a shark in the morning coffee bottom: supposed to be a coffin sitting where Lincoln would be placed at the Lincoln Memorial |
1 comment:
I love Frida too, but I think you made the right choice by researching an artist you weren't familiar with.
We had a similar project in Art Appreciation (which I took as an easy humanities elective). We were sampling modern art and the assignment was to read about an artist we were unfamiliar with and then either give an oral report with examples of the artist's work or create artwork in that artist's style. Over-achiever that I am, I did both. LOL! The artist I chose was Jean-Michel Basquiat. I should try to find that silly painting.
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