This is an image of graffiti on a wall in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
Art is something that speaks more than words and in a way is like a poem. A poem uses few words to get a strong and meaningful story across. Everything--in both a poem and a piece of art work--have to be placed correct pace in order to make sense. There are many was you can compare a piece of writing to a piece of art. The picture featured on the top is some graffiti art on a wall in Silver Lake, LA. This image is the definition of a true artist who has taking their skill to a larger scale. Some may say that graffiti is disgusting, illegal, and gross, do a favor for me and slap them. If the art delivers a message and is something unique to the artist, it is already a masterpiece. Now we are going to go into what our eyes see when we look at this piece of art.
Just like we do in a poem, we inspect the structure and look at what we observe with our eyes. What I first notice in this piece of art is the outstanding painting of a woman and a chicken on the side. Lets go into the women first. What race do you suppose this women is? I started off looking at the hair, I know for sure I don't have hair like that but I know who does or at least has hair similar to this. Jennifer! If I take way Jennifer looks and compare it to this women I get a clear view that this women is black. Did you know there is another way to tell the race of this women? So lets go back to when Mr. Luther King Jr. was alive and when there was a great deal of segregation. They called all white people white and all black people colored. Look t that world colored again and then look at the women in the photo. From the photo we can tell that there is a great amount of color added onto this painting that you would never see on real skin. Te colors that I see are crimson(pink), violet(purple), ultramarine(blue), yellow ochre(dark yellow), black, white, and orange. Now these are a LOT of colors! I believe that the artist, whoever it is, used these colors to actually show race.
Moving onto the chicken, what do you see? When I look at the chicken I see a chicken--thanks captain obvious-- with what seems to be an old stereo (which is like the stereo from the song "Stereo Hearts" that we reviewed) and a word bubble next to him that seems to be saying "uber".
At first I was a little thrown off by what this chicken was doing there and what it represented. Of corse being an bit of an artist I did notice a few things. Look closely at the speech bubble, if you were to look at what was painted first you could clearly tell that it was the women and that the chicken was painted afterwards. Now if we look at the word in the bubble and look it up in the dictionary you receive the definition "denoting an outstanding or supreme example of a particular kind of person or thing." If we were to go back to the women in the painting you get the image that this women is a supreme example of a particular kind of person. WOW NOW THIS IS MAKING SENSE PEOPLE! If we go back to the race of this women and plug it back into the message of the chicken I get that they are trying to say that this is particular race--blacks-- are outstanding kind of people.
Now guess where I got this process of "decoding" from...poems. I doesn't have to be a writing piece for you to break down the story of something. Since I am an artist, imagine how helpful this will be from me! I think I will never walk into an art museum the same way.
Just like we do in a poem, we inspect the structure and look at what we observe with our eyes. What I first notice in this piece of art is the outstanding painting of a woman and a chicken on the side. Lets go into the women first. What race do you suppose this women is? I started off looking at the hair, I know for sure I don't have hair like that but I know who does or at least has hair similar to this. Jennifer! If I take way Jennifer looks and compare it to this women I get a clear view that this women is black. Did you know there is another way to tell the race of this women? So lets go back to when Mr. Luther King Jr. was alive and when there was a great deal of segregation. They called all white people white and all black people colored. Look t that world colored again and then look at the women in the photo. From the photo we can tell that there is a great amount of color added onto this painting that you would never see on real skin. Te colors that I see are crimson(pink), violet(purple), ultramarine(blue), yellow ochre(dark yellow), black, white, and orange. Now these are a LOT of colors! I believe that the artist, whoever it is, used these colors to actually show race.
Moving onto the chicken, what do you see? When I look at the chicken I see a chicken--thanks captain obvious-- with what seems to be an old stereo (which is like the stereo from the song "Stereo Hearts" that we reviewed) and a word bubble next to him that seems to be saying "uber".
At first I was a little thrown off by what this chicken was doing there and what it represented. Of corse being an bit of an artist I did notice a few things. Look closely at the speech bubble, if you were to look at what was painted first you could clearly tell that it was the women and that the chicken was painted afterwards. Now if we look at the word in the bubble and look it up in the dictionary you receive the definition "denoting an outstanding or supreme example of a particular kind of person or thing." If we were to go back to the women in the painting you get the image that this women is a supreme example of a particular kind of person. WOW NOW THIS IS MAKING SENSE PEOPLE! If we go back to the race of this women and plug it back into the message of the chicken I get that they are trying to say that this is particular race--blacks-- are outstanding kind of people.
Now guess where I got this process of "decoding" from...poems. I doesn't have to be a writing piece for you to break down the story of something. Since I am an artist, imagine how helpful this will be from me! I think I will never walk into an art museum the same way.