Here are some pictures I just wanted to share

African Art West Indian Social Gallery/Yale Gallery

Though my traveling I had to choose African Art. My mother and her friends foundation put , on an exhibit of African Art. African are as seen to the right has many different kinds of Art. The most common African art work can be see as "traditional art". This means cultures societies and past civilizations. Some examples of different African Art work can be seen as "African Diasporas and African American Art.
The African art that I grew up knowing was Jamaican African Art. Eugene Hyde painted this oil and mixed media on Canvas. The price of a painting like this is 3, 000 us dollars.
the art work sen in Yale art Gallery is a collection from the African south if the Sahara . Making of art from work , carved heads and ceramics, and other materials from natural resources .
The mask above is from the West Africa , Liberia. Most African art focuses on the human fugues. These "visual abstractions ": African works tend to favor visual abstractions over natural representation(wikipedia , 2009)
The "Emphasis on sculpture" African art is tend to favor three dimension art work over two dimensional art work.
African art work can be painting also. These painting tells stories of Cairo , cultures of how people had salves and how women had to wait in the Harlem while the men met.

Fellowship Gallery Essay Art helps to Heal

The artist name "Allen" born in Greenwich Connecticut. He was a teacher. Allen fell in to the mental health life in adult hood. He teaches art till this day. Allen loves to paint and is the clown of the art therapy class. I chose Allen's work because of his signature style . The black lines though the picture , I have seen in many of his work.

Placing the picture on it side is a style of his also. My personal experience with his work is that I some times get confused in what he is painting, Although I am in tuned with residents that I serve,often what they are thinking is not how thy express it.I place his work in expression style.

Many mental patients only can express their emotions though art. Art gives them a sense of accomplishment and social interaction with other artist. The open art studio of Fellowship gives artist a way to sell art and feel like a part of "normal" society.

Pictures of my travels

My trip to see Folkert Dr Jong at the Hartford Wadsworth

"The Shooting"De Jong


I think what drew me into this piece of art work was the fact that it looked scary . I hate scary things yet always am so inquisitive about what they are. The fear that I felt is what made be want to get closer tot he supcuture.
The artist Folkert de Jong known for his large scale sculptor and installations . These life size
almost scary , scenes some human figures and props are eye catchers. De Jong was born in the Nertherlands 1972 . He studied at he Visual Arts and the Rijk Acadeeny fit Visual Arts where he
lives in works.
De Jong works reflects contemporary politics , society, and war. " In 2008 an interview with De Jonk said " The only way to rise above the problems we are confronted with is to turn them into grotesque. The grotesques allows us to see that everything is relative. the problems we are
confronting is not new. these things happened before" (Wadsworth Antheneum)
"The Shooting ...At Watou" is made of Styrofoam and polyurethane . Unlike paint this art wo
is not environmentally friendly or safe. These materials are toxic. The materials chosen for
this piece are meant for warfare , which gives more understand to the piece. War fare material
used to express the problems of war of the world helps to make the piece more interesting.
"The Shooting" was created for the as a site specific work in Watou, Belgium. Almost like a voice
for salves in war . This must be the purpose of the piece . To give voice to those that have none.
This is a very political piece.
My personal experience with this piece was fear at the beginning . I saw a male face that did not shoe kindness. My parents coming from a poor country some times with war at the door. I began to think of the poor people with no help.I saw a lot of culture in the piece from the dressing of the clothes .

The bright pink colors were not colors of war time. In fact pink to me
represented women. SO this meant the cultures around the world used color symbols different then me. The face of the piece was older. It told the story of war not just of today but, war of
yesterday. The color I remember most in this piece was the pink. For some reason it stood out on a light blue base in the uniform. Color itself was a personal experience I learned. There we three reasons to my experience of color. First the color on the raw material made the mood of
he environment. Second the information given by my memory to my senses , and last the memory over and over stimulated my mind. This gave me some enjoyment. I think the balance in this piece was the balance in color, from top top bottom. There is a light blue base with ping over tone. from head to toe. There is height to this piece. The shooting has very rough edges. I did not want to try to touch it but it looked that way. This piece is an expression
piece. A masculine piece is what I see. The features of a Asian society gave made em reflect on
"Oriental ism the investigation which sparked of the historical and ideology circumstances
surriond the fabrication of the Near East as the , antimoserms, anti
humanistmand semi -barbaric anthesis to European modernity" (The Art of History 1998)

William Glackens "Julia's Sister"

William Glakens 1915 oil painting oil painting is a realist art piece. He was born in the United
States and studied at he Pennsylvania Academy of Art in to New York
City. He helped start Ascha School Art Movement . Glakens was a part of a group called "The
Eight".This is what he press called them . This movement went against the early art work. His signature works included Over sized dark painting . Later he began to include color in his work. All of his work seemed to show reality of times in life. Critics seemed to think his work was similar to Renoir. Life portral in his painting made some critics compare him to Pascin.Some even thought he was am imitation of Pascin.
The meaning of the Painting "Julia Sister" was to picture showed some rebellion of the movement of art. In the 1900's the women movement began and looking at "Julia Sister" really showed(factitious ) that women were on the move to take charge . That meant not only was art rebelling but, so were women. The medium of the work are right on point. Liseners or viewers of the work as I saw it can see that the artist wanted us to see the stregth and attitude in women.

My personal experience with this painting at first I was amazed at how much lipstick was placed on the women's lips. Then I began to see the color of the hair, red have been covered by a hat but to the side the fiery red hair made me see that this women was mad about something . If you look at the arm placed almost on her hip it showed that something is on her mind. I thought sometime I felt the same way. I just always hide my feelings. This picture showed much beauty , into the back ground , very famine picture . I think I related to this mode ]remism picture by self Identification, or with her because I am famine .I wondered what was on her mine.Was it women's rights?The Feminism are history probably was influenced by painting like this. The wide variety of issues such as gender bias are reflected in this paining . Most of all that I got out of this art experience was the understanding that are influences society. Many times I have heard on T.V. about art being an expression. I have never really understood it until now. I think not being exposed to much in my life closed me out of the art world.
This rich color of work has an over tone of darkness. I see alot of female lace , curves, flowers.
placed on the hat of the women , even the chair that she sits on is feminine . The placement in the painting of the woman in the center meant that women in the painting meant the she was the most important . Every other object in the painting seemed small. It was almost like the flowers just enhanced her more . She was the center of attraction. I tried to find out who Julia was since this was her sister. It was not Glacken wife's sister because her name was Eeith Dimock an artist as well.

Jacopo Vignaili " The Head

Jacopo Vignaili (Italian 1592-1664)
I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The most interesting painting I saw was the "Head of the Young Woman with Coral Necklace"The ting that drew me to this picture is the fact that it was a women's face.In fact if I could afford to create a collections it would be a collection of women 's faces. The drama in all of the pieces of art that I see know seems so interesting .
Black and Red Chalk on a white canvas with small framing. This made me understand that paintings did not have to be done in paint only. The thin frame was chosen around the picture maybe because the picture said it all. Vignaili usually dose religious or secular work. This piece was probably a study piece. This is out of the normal work pieces that he dose. There are no icon, or symbols in it . Mostly he enjoyed doing painting that had alter pieces in it.
He was born in Prativecchio and trained under the artist Matteo Rosselli. Was of his most famous works the ceiling of fresco of the "love fi tage Fatherland and Jacob's dream fit he Casa Bunoarroti in Florence.
My personal experience with this art work was almost ironic. If a piece of work that showed no feeling, made me feel . This Meloncolony feeling I see in the picture brought me to think of to thing, one of Abraham Lincoln and a poem called "Casey at the Bat"I found it quite interesting to see the choice of color used by the artist. It seemed as if he wanted to use the red chalk to highlight the picture and the feeling points on the canvas. I saw feeling in the eyes highlighted in the red, cheeks , even when he high lighted the bow and necklace he wanted to show the contrast between some thing pretty and happy verses the cheeks and eyes that were said. This could have been the medium of the art work. No matter how beautiful the things you were look pretty, unless you feel pretty about yourself it will never show. This is the message i took form the painting . This piece of work falls under a realist, Expression .
The coral necklace has a clap that looks like a butterfly. I wonder if there was any meaning .Young women turn inti beautiful women and butterflies have changed also. Art makes you think about life and its changes.

The Methodology of this work is simplicity. It appears as simple as it is because some the artist wanted to simply say , live live, two ways happy or sad. The simple young women is still a women .Simple things in life are beautiful. This piece of art work clearly dose fall under Feminism work. The gender preception is dull, lifeless, and with out feeling .Femisim work was full of life bright and strong .