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Lola Montejo / Entanglement (2024)

I like the way she masters her work in a sort of messy paint slap. I feel like each paint stroke is intentional but the way she takes it out is so care free. The use of colors in her pieces is also something that caught my eye. Its usually a lot of one color and little of another-like in this piece, there's a lot of purples and little greens and oranges. I can't tell if the colors evoke pain/depression or if they evoke fear, maybe even hope. I think it really depends on how and where you look at it.

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Minerva Cuevas / Fine Lands (2018)

I love how her work explores political ideas and how the increase in technology, convienience, pollution, etc., has caused us to become estranged from our natural elements. Her use of solid red and black is really eyecatching as it displays feelings of anger, hatred, death, etc.. It is such a bold way to portray animal cruelty and how we are mistreating indigenous species. I love how bold and in your face it is because it gets the point across so much deeper than the typical animal activist posters, commercials, and art.

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Tammam Azzam / Grenade? (2011)

Maybe its the fact that it is a grenade and it has flowers as the base, but something about this piece is so eerie. I love it, though. I think that its a beautiful rendition reguarding the reflection of the multiple bombed buildings in Syria. It shows the love and beauty in the hand of death and destruction. It can be interpreted that the grenade is like a seed because of the flowers it holds and in the coming season, there will be more to come, which is so painstakingly upsetting with truth. Or, it could be interpreted that it is a bomb of hope, that the coming times will only bring flowers and new beginnings.

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Olivier de Sagazan / Hybridation (2017)

I found this artist about 3 years ago I believe. I tried to find the original video that introduced me to him, and I think this may be the whole of the snippet I first saw. I remember feeling my heart racing because he was creating human like creatures but it wasn't close enough to feel human. I think that his work is so breathtakingly, beautifully, terrifying. He incorporates so much emotion and personality in his work. It brings mental health/psychology and personality into the limelight of creation.

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Dana Schutze / Open Casket (2016)

I think that this piece is such an honorable mention. I think that it is so beautiful that she wanted to display the hate that occurs towards people of color. I don't think she did it for the clout or for attention or money. I think that it is something that definitly doesn't get talked about enough let alone shown as explicitly as this. Her rendition is pretty damn near close to what the boy looked in real life after getting beat beyond recogniton. I think she portrayed a level of police brutality and injustice in our governmental systems. I think it was a piece created upon respect and not ill intent and it is a very visually powerful piece.

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Salvador Dali / Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)

I think that this is such a beautiful piece. I love how he uses dual imagery to show swans and elephants. Its really hard to understand the story that is being exhibited in this piece however, that's not surprising because his pieces are so connected to his dream states. Dreams, no matter who they come from, don't usually make any sense.

I am still trying to figure out who the man is on the left side and what he is looking at. Why isn't he looking at the swans?

I am still trying to figure out with the fire is in the cave on the right side. Why is there a fire? Are there people living in there?

I feel like his work has so many endless stories inside one piece.

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Marina Abramović / Rhythm 0 (1974)

I chose this piece because it is truly disgusting. I apprectiate her reasoning to conduct this piece, but I despise the people who took part in it.

"Placing seventy-two objects on a table, ranging from honey, olive oil, feathers, and perfume to razor blades, knives, a scalpel, and a pistol with one bullet, she offered herself as a silent puppet for viewers to do with as they chose."

I cannot understand why people started off nonviolent and ended with severe near death violence. I cannot put into words how animalistic we as a species are. We are disgusting. Whenever given the opportunity to desacrate ones body, we take. Now, thats not to say that we all take that opportunity, but there is a large sum of people who definitly do.

I can't even imagine how she felt during this performance. Did she feel regret, fear, excitement? What did she feel before and after? Was there a sense of relief after the galleriest stepped in?

I'm on the fence of whether or not I think this is art taken too far. I think it was taken to far by the hands of the people who desecrated her, but I don't think she went too far in coming up with the idea.

I think this piece presents itself as a social experiment and demonstrates how the human species reacts when given micellaneous objects and a female body to do what ever they please with no repercussions.

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Jenny Saville / Propped (1992)

I just think that the piece is beautiful in general. I like the use of minimal color and complements between blues and oranges. The figure itself is an emotional representation because bigger women are not necesarilly reguarded as feminine or pretty or beautiful. The ballet flats are an odd addition I feel because she is naked. But I also feel it adds a very feminine touch to her. I also can't help but notice that she, the figure, seems to be closed off. I can't tell if it is something reguarding insecurity, or if it is in a loving way towards the body, as she grips her finger nails into her thighs.