Unit 2: Relationships
Artist: Mary Cassatt
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Artist: Rene Magritte
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Artist: Do Ho Suh
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Unit 2: Relationships Reflection
After studying Mary Cassatt and her paintings of relationships, I immediately knew I wanted to have a piece of artwork showing a relationship with my Mom. My first piece is a picture of my Mom and I from my senior homecoming. She is copying my pose in the picture while I'm trying not to laugh but I especially love it because it shows how fun our relationship really is. I stamped the quote "Like Mother Like Daughter" on this piece because I felt like the quote ties into my picture of how our relationship stands. My Mom and I are very close and we tend to do many of the same things, like copy and make fun of each other just like the picture. I stamped "FAMILY" onto the side because my family is very important to me. I don't know what I would do without them in my life and wanted to show on my artwork how important it really is to me. I used a background of seashells that I drew on with white crayon to add texture to the picture and also make the quote and picture pop more. Pink introduces Madan Kataria in her chapter "Play" and describes Kataria "to believe that laughter can function like a benevolent virus---that it can infect individuals, communities, even nations" (pg. 186). His study of laughter fits into my relationship with my family but more importantly my Mom. Being able to laugh with someone close to me who has the same sense of humor just makes our relationship more fun and outgoing. After making this piece, it was clear to see how similar my Mom and I really are.
I had fun with our second studio studying Rene Magritte because we had the chance to share our work with our classmates and pass around our artwork for them to add on to. The only part of this piece that I chose was the background for both of the postcards. I also wrote the letters on the back and designed my own stamp. The other parts of the front of the postcards were added by classmates as we passed our postcards around the room. The cutouts are all from magazines and when we were passing them we didn't have to necessarily follow the flow of our background or have the picture make sense. I liked this studio because I was able to build relationships with my classmates around me and to see their taste and what they thought would fit into my postcard. The letters I wrote on the back are just fake letters I wrote to my friend Megan and my parents while I was on a fake trip. I wanted to make the postcards seem realistic and that I was on actual trips that I could tell them about when I returned. The crazy fronts of the postcards show how interesting and wild my make-believe adventures are and that everything doesn't have to make sense.
I found Do Ho Suh's artwork to be very interesting to me and I couldn't believe all of the tiny details that were included in his artwork. Although there aren't many specific details in my last piece, it still means something to me. I attempted to make my piece look as much like my home in St. Louis as much as I could. I made my house out of a pocket technique we learned in class. I added on a door, a bay window and a regular window to copy the look of my house back home. I added the tree to remind me of the memories of climbing it when I was a kid and the bushes next to our sidewalk that I had to water as one of my chores. My relationship with this house is very important to me because it is one that I have lived in my whole life. I can't imagine living anywhere else and it was a sad day when I had to move out for college. I added the quote "Home is wherever I'm with you" from the song "Home" by Edward Sharpe & The Megnetic Zeros to represent the relationship I have with my family and my house. They are all so important to me and this house will always bring me memories of a child and growing up to leave for college. As Pink states, "...Meaning will move to the center of our lives and our consciousness" (pg. 227). I believe Pink is correct by saying that meaning and memories stay close to us and mean a lot to us, just like my house and my family do to me. I couldn't imagine what my life would be like in a different home or if I attended a school farther away from home than I am now, but the meaning of my home will always be important to me.
Resources
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.
After studying Mary Cassatt and her paintings of relationships, I immediately knew I wanted to have a piece of artwork showing a relationship with my Mom. My first piece is a picture of my Mom and I from my senior homecoming. She is copying my pose in the picture while I'm trying not to laugh but I especially love it because it shows how fun our relationship really is. I stamped the quote "Like Mother Like Daughter" on this piece because I felt like the quote ties into my picture of how our relationship stands. My Mom and I are very close and we tend to do many of the same things, like copy and make fun of each other just like the picture. I stamped "FAMILY" onto the side because my family is very important to me. I don't know what I would do without them in my life and wanted to show on my artwork how important it really is to me. I used a background of seashells that I drew on with white crayon to add texture to the picture and also make the quote and picture pop more. Pink introduces Madan Kataria in her chapter "Play" and describes Kataria "to believe that laughter can function like a benevolent virus---that it can infect individuals, communities, even nations" (pg. 186). His study of laughter fits into my relationship with my family but more importantly my Mom. Being able to laugh with someone close to me who has the same sense of humor just makes our relationship more fun and outgoing. After making this piece, it was clear to see how similar my Mom and I really are.
I had fun with our second studio studying Rene Magritte because we had the chance to share our work with our classmates and pass around our artwork for them to add on to. The only part of this piece that I chose was the background for both of the postcards. I also wrote the letters on the back and designed my own stamp. The other parts of the front of the postcards were added by classmates as we passed our postcards around the room. The cutouts are all from magazines and when we were passing them we didn't have to necessarily follow the flow of our background or have the picture make sense. I liked this studio because I was able to build relationships with my classmates around me and to see their taste and what they thought would fit into my postcard. The letters I wrote on the back are just fake letters I wrote to my friend Megan and my parents while I was on a fake trip. I wanted to make the postcards seem realistic and that I was on actual trips that I could tell them about when I returned. The crazy fronts of the postcards show how interesting and wild my make-believe adventures are and that everything doesn't have to make sense.
I found Do Ho Suh's artwork to be very interesting to me and I couldn't believe all of the tiny details that were included in his artwork. Although there aren't many specific details in my last piece, it still means something to me. I attempted to make my piece look as much like my home in St. Louis as much as I could. I made my house out of a pocket technique we learned in class. I added on a door, a bay window and a regular window to copy the look of my house back home. I added the tree to remind me of the memories of climbing it when I was a kid and the bushes next to our sidewalk that I had to water as one of my chores. My relationship with this house is very important to me because it is one that I have lived in my whole life. I can't imagine living anywhere else and it was a sad day when I had to move out for college. I added the quote "Home is wherever I'm with you" from the song "Home" by Edward Sharpe & The Megnetic Zeros to represent the relationship I have with my family and my house. They are all so important to me and this house will always bring me memories of a child and growing up to leave for college. As Pink states, "...Meaning will move to the center of our lives and our consciousness" (pg. 227). I believe Pink is correct by saying that meaning and memories stay close to us and mean a lot to us, just like my house and my family do to me. I couldn't imagine what my life would be like in a different home or if I attended a school farther away from home than I am now, but the meaning of my home will always be important to me.
Resources
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.