Sunday April 3rd I visited the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see one of its special exhibits, LIGHT AND LINE: E. S. Lumsden’s Visions of India. This exhibit showed beautiful pieces created with black ink etchings on laid paper. These images often depicted landscapes of southern Asia, mostly India. Seeing these pictures was so amazing because I just fell in love with their simplicity and detail all at the same time. It was also just perfect that we are just now entering the Indian section of our global and artistic studies.
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Born in southern France, Bruno Catalano began to experiment with art and sculpture in particular in 1990. The more that he worked with sculpture the more he revealed a real desire to capture the viewer’s attention. Catalano does this by depicting like size figures with their middle sections missing, creating the surrealist effect of floating sections of art, as well as elaborate use of negative space. These sculptures are made of painted bronze. The first time I saw bon elf these pieces I was so confused in how it was floating in the middle of the air and it took me a few moments to actually understand what was happening. This piece shows how uniquely a basic human form can be depicted, as well as how effective the use of “in the round” sculpture can be.
I was immediately drawn to these incredible sculptures by Ellen Jewett when I saw them. It is almost impossible to wrap my head around the fact that these are actually hand sculpted clay pieces. Ellen Jewett is a sculpture who credits most of her sculptural abilities to the close observation and fascination of animals from a very early age, saying that this gave her an eye for close details in an animalistic form. Everyone of these sculptures are sculpted by hand, including the armatures beneath the clay, and are painted by Jewett. This has relevance to class as we are just wrapping up our unit on culture, ending with a project on the environment. While Jewett’s works do show incredible ways of sculpting and techniques, the real reason I chose to highlight her work is because I just love them. The tiny details and wildly vivid forms created here are simply breathtaking.
In this project I used the form of a dress to show the relationship between nature and trash. The base of the dress is made from brown paper bags, and the details are moss, foliage, straw, stones, and trash bags. I am incredibly happy with the product of this project, as I put an incredible amount time and thought into this. My favorite part is the back of the dress, and I wish I had more of that particular the of moss.
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