assignment 1

The artist has seemed to set up the show by body positions. The first couple of pieces ( to the immediate left) were people huddling up together, followed by a woman by herself represented in a variety of different pieces in a variety of different poses. Getting to the far wall on the right there appeared to be two pieces dealing with couples, in both pieces the woman was depicted kneeling on the ground and the man was holding her shoulders or her hand standing above her. All the pieces seem to portray the same female figure in a different pose and they all seem to be cohesive with each other, dealing with the same style of art and colors used.

In the piece I chose, the artist seems to use a lot of flesh-toned colors with greens and reds. She doesn't use any framing; it's just the large piece of paper hanging. She really utilized how the body can contort into different positions with this piece, using a lot of curved lines make both bodies culring up together. She also used a lot of lines in the bodies themselves, which continue with bleeding of red and greens to the bottom of the paper.

After reading the artist's statement I feel that she is actively potraying what she has said. You can see how the different pieces represent a specific emotion. Especially in the first picture, I get a sense of sadness or distress. the two people are huddling together, almost as if they are both deeply upset and crying together, holding each other for comfort. The other one's with the couples howver, show a feeling of intimacy, the women calmly kneeling and the man behind her, holding both her hands gently. I feel that the artist has done a good job explaining how she feels and what she was going for when she made these pieces.