Title: Preservation of the Apple Media: Acrylic on canvas Artist: Sebin
Artist Statement: Through this painting, I wanted to depict the process and growing importance of preservation. In our current world, more and more newly developing countries are rapidly modernizing and are demolishing historical architecture in order to clear land for skyscrapers, highways and more. Also, my painting style was greatly influenced by a Russian, ‘metaphorical realism’ artist named Vladimir Kush. Like some of his simpler pieces, I focused my painting to two subjects; the person representing our role in preservation, and the apple symbolizing the architecture being conserved. In order to make the apple the focal point, I deliberately painted the face and background with wide strokes dark shades, and emphasized the apple by working in more detail on the bricks and windows.
Title: Native Born Media: fabric, leather, wood, clay, pastel Artist: Kayla Park
I was inspired by the buffalo war and the mad cow disease to create the work to show the irony between human and animal. This piece is not to blame the human for killing cows, but to present deeper message. The buffalo war started since European migrated into America. To make the railroads and farming place, immigrants slaughtered the buffalo, who are native to the land of America. It is ironical to kill the native born as a foreigner. It is ironical to colonize, when they hardly knew about the land. The second inspiration was a mad cow disease. Mad cow disease appeared because human feed herbivorous cows meats to make them grow faster. In the process of herbivore animal turning into carnivore, this disease arose. When mad cow disease infected human beings, human killed the innocent cows to terminate the origin of the disease. Despite all these killings, we are taught to love the animals. Animals are often described as a friendly friend of human in the tales. We contradicts ourselves because the truth betrays our moral. I want the viewers to find a contradiction and ironical relationship between animal and human and question, “was I true to myself?”.
I used clay to build the bones and used earth tone pastels to color. I tried to make bones look real as possible. I quilted on the cut out oxford fabric to create the background. I used machine to sew the images of the slaughter house, piles of buffalo bones, bison etc. I built the wooden frame by myself to symbolize the process of drying buffalo skin. Overall
In this piece of artwork I attempted to convey the feelings and the innocence of the boy in relationship to culture. The message of this piece is fundamentally the deterioration of one’s culture (in this case Thai culture), however, some of the crucial identity of that culture still remains deep down through the innocence of the new generations. Some of it has been lost but it is something that will remain in our blood and it cannot be influenced whatsoever. Through making this piece, I’ve learnt to become more of a diligent artist and my lines have become more precise.
Title: Preservation of the Apple
ReplyDeleteMedia: Acrylic on canvas
Artist: Sebin
Artist Statement:
Through this painting, I wanted to depict the process and growing importance of preservation. In our current world, more and more newly developing countries are rapidly modernizing and are demolishing historical architecture in order to clear land for skyscrapers, highways and more. Also, my painting style was greatly influenced by a Russian, ‘metaphorical realism’ artist named Vladimir Kush. Like some of his simpler pieces, I focused my painting to two subjects; the person representing our role in preservation, and the apple symbolizing the architecture being conserved. In order to make the apple the focal point, I deliberately painted the face and background with wide strokes dark shades, and emphasized the apple by working in more detail on the bricks and windows.
Title: Native Born
ReplyDeleteMedia: fabric, leather, wood, clay, pastel
Artist: Kayla Park
I was inspired by the buffalo war and the mad cow disease to create the work to show the irony between human and animal. This piece is not to blame the human for killing cows, but to present deeper message. The buffalo war started since European migrated into America. To make the railroads and farming place, immigrants slaughtered the buffalo, who are native to the land of America. It is ironical to kill the native born as a foreigner. It is ironical to colonize, when they hardly knew about the land. The second inspiration was a mad cow disease. Mad cow disease appeared because human feed herbivorous cows meats to make them grow faster. In the process of herbivore animal turning into carnivore, this disease arose. When mad cow disease infected human beings, human killed the innocent cows to terminate the origin of the disease. Despite all these killings, we are taught to love the animals. Animals are often described as a friendly friend of human in the tales. We contradicts ourselves because the truth betrays our moral. I want the viewers to find a contradiction and ironical relationship between animal and human and question, “was I true to myself?”.
I used clay to build the bones and used earth tone pastels to color. I tried to make bones look real as possible. I quilted on the cut out oxford fabric to create the background. I used machine to sew the images of the slaughter house, piles of buffalo bones, bison etc. I built the wooden frame by myself to symbolize the process of drying buffalo skin. Overall
Title: Perpetual Innocence
ReplyDeleteMedia: drawing
Artist: Natcha Simsiri
In this piece of artwork I attempted to convey the feelings and the innocence of the boy in relationship to culture. The message of this piece is fundamentally the deterioration of one’s culture (in this case Thai culture), however, some of the crucial identity of that culture still remains deep down through the innocence of the new generations. Some of it has been lost but it is something that will remain in our blood and it cannot be influenced whatsoever. Through making this piece, I’ve learnt to become more of a diligent artist and my lines have become more precise.