The piece of work that I have chosen from the Currier Museum of Art is title The Rehearsal. This piece is oil on canvas by Peter Milton. The Rehearsal is completed in 1984, which is the third part of his Les Belles Et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast) project. The first and second part was completed in 1977 and 1978 respectively. The Rehearsal is a piece that sets to explore sexuality through fantasy and metaphor where some architectural space, shadows and reflection are very real where others are examples of fantasy world. A group of people in the backstage, doing various things is shown in the piece of The Rehearsal. There were three relatively young girls, holding the masks and practicing on the stage. Girls that were older and look more mature can be seen sitting around, talking and also joking with each other. Older girls can be seen as very relaxed, carefree with no anxiety seen. A few older girls can be seen siting around with big smiles on their face. This makes them look very relaxed and carefree …show more content…
As compared to the older girls, younger girls were portrayed to be practicing hard in the piece. One of the girls was standing straight yet gracefully on the stage with her hands up as if she was singing the loudest she can. Another one was holding the cat masks straight up in the high and another girl was standing gracefully on the stage. All three of them have their composure straight and graceful as they were seen practicing diligently on the stage. There was another young girl that were seen hiding away from others at the down right corner of the piece. She was standing timidly behind the pillar, holding a mask. Her expression was rather neutral with no signs of smile or distress but her body expression shows as if she was shy, where her body was bend down a little, heads were somewhat 45 degrees to the right and eyes were starring straight at the
· 1999: Private commissions (2). Continues to work on paintings for traveling exhibition, Visual Poems of Human Experience (The Company of Art, Chronology 1999).
I’ve always liked the picture Prevalence of Ritual: Tidings by: Romare Bearden (pg.5). Honestly this particular art work I picked has somewhat of a love story. It has a hidden message in it. You have to look very closely to understand why he created something so special. This picture is based
My first piece of artwork that I found interesting is called “Portrait of a Collagist” by an African American artist name Benny Andrews in 1989. His artwork is mainly abstract impressionism and realism and the medium he likes to use and is using in the particular piece is oil and collage on canvas and stands roughly 92inx51in. In this piece his work is abstract and realism, as is most of his pieces. (Source?)
This paper will discuss and compare A Faun Teased by Children sculpture, of the Italian Baroque style, and the Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer of the French impressionist style. These two sculptures give us a clear insight and allows us to peer in on the moment that is taking place. The active movement, strong diagonals and dramatic facial expressions of the figures in A Faun Teased by Children tells the on looker a vivid detailed story of the actions that are taking place and what role each figure is taking on, in a mythical scene, while the stagnant and serene pose of the Fourteen Year Old Girl resonates calmness and a moment that has not taken place just yet.
An artwork that stood out in the exhibition was School of Beauty, School of Culture (2012) . It portrays women and two children standing in a beauty salon and school with green walls and a red floor. The walls have posters promoting black beauty with one that reads, “it’s your hair” and under this statement are the words love, dark and lovely. There are mirrors against the wall and in the reflection a camera flash is shown from a person who is taking a picture of those in the salon. Red, black, and green, the colors of the Afro-American flag, border the top of the wall, symbolizing the black power movement . The focal point of this piece is a woman who stands in the center, posing for the person taking a picture. To her right, towards the floor, is a “floating” head of a white woman which is compressed and 2-dimensional. This is a tribute to Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors (1533) because in Holbein’s piece, there is a 2-dimensional skull painted in the same fashion. Just how the skull in The Ambassadors is a reminder of death, the head in Marshall’s
Many might have been working on Good Friday, but many others were enjoying The Frist Museum of Visual Arts. A museum visitor visited this exhibit on April 14, 2017 early in the morning. The time that was spent at the art museum was approximately two hours and a half. The first impression that one received was that this place was a place of peace and also a place to expand the viewer’s imagination to understand what artists were expressing to the viewers. The viewer was very interested in all the art that was seen ,but there is so much one can absorb. The lighting in the museum was very low and some of the lighting was by direction LED lights. The artwork was spaciously
The second exhibit entitled Painting with Fire: Works by Betsy Eby. I didn’t spend much time looking at these pieces. Although uniquely done, with heated colored beeswax, and inspired by music, all the artworks looked almost the same. I understand she was inspired by music, however, it looks as if she was listening to the same song on every piece. I wasn’t very impressed with this exhibit.
Shea, R. 2004. Marcia Myers: Twenty Years Paintings & Works on Paper 1982–2002. Manchester, United States: Hudson Hills.
If there is any confusion that the young woman in pink is supposed to be a spectacle, one only needs to look at the other figures within the canvas. Male figures appear to be both whispering and watching the young woman; she is on display. One male figure, placed in the middle left almost off the canvas, looks directly out of the canvas to the viewer as a reminder that we too are reveling in the
Rhee, J. “PERFORMING THE OTHER: YOKO ONO'S CUT PIECE.” Art History. 28: 96–118. (2005). Print. 30 Apr. 2014.
The personal front refers to the “expressive equipment that the audience identifies with the performers and expects them to carry with them into the setting” (Pada, 2016). The personal front includes the performer’s clothing style, sex, age, and race, posture, manner of speaking, facial expressions, and gestures. This list refers to the two subcategories of the personal front: appearance and manners. The appearance involves everything that has to do with our appearance, and what we do with our bodies. Manners refer to how we carry ourselves. For example, a young doctor may not be taken very seriously by older patients because he or she is younger than them. However, by keeping his or her appearance and manners professional, he or she can gain the trust of older
Another is the interesting set of images if found if the observer flips the painting over. Here in the left half of the painting there are two images, one of a puppet and an observer kneeling to view the show.
On September 14, 2016, I went to observe the Mermaid Song. The Mermaid Song is the WonderQuest directed by Gay H. Hammond and the rehearsals was in Pearce auditorium on Breanu campus. The Mermaid Song is adapted from The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. The rehearsal started at 6:30 pm but I was there at 6:15 to observe what the job of the stage managers. The rehearsal was “blocking” and this terms means that the director decides when and where the performers should move and position themselves on the stage ( ). The performers were divided into three groups and since the group three were assigned to perform off stage, they were not in the rehearsal that day. The rehearsal started with a song. After the song, the little mermaid goes
There is a great sense of joy and belonging at the end of the performance, all three look at each other with the knowledge of who each other is. They haven’t said anything, yet they know who each other is.
Cook, A.D. “Nude Beauty Nude. Body of Art.” A.D. Cook figurative artist. 3 January 2013. Web. 13 April 2014.