Reflection:
I enjoyed looking at the exhibit "Body Language: Picturing People" and I appreciated how all of the pieces were so different yet came together with a central theme. I found it really easy to concentrate on each individual piece and the exhibition as a whole. I will say however that I did spend more time observing some pieces more than others. I noticed that I gave more time and appreciation to the pieces with the most color. I realized this about halfway through my visit to the exhibit. Once I realized this, I tried my best to spend more time looking at the pieces with less color individually. Spending more time at the exhibit after this realization really benefitted me because I, in turn, placed more focus on the meaning of the exhibit and put greater emphasis on relating each piece to the theme of “body language”.
Observations and Interpretations:
When walking around “Body Language: Picturing People,” I noticed that some of the pieces were more attractive than most because they are richest in color, yet they were able to coincide with the rest of the exhibit. Nicholas Africano’s four sectioned work The Shadow (I Beat this Fucker Up) demands attention because he uses vibrant yellow handmade paper as the background for his comic like story. The embossed etching on the four yellow pieces of paper depict a boxer wearing red shorts and his shadow who is going through the same punching motions, except for one section in which only the shadow is shown with a caption that reads “I beat this fucker up.” The black of the shadow and the boxer’s gloves and socks along with the black frames create cohesion between The Shadow (I Beat this Fucker Up) and the rest of the pieces in the exhibit, which are mainly black and white or dulled colors. I decided to categorize this comment as an observation of the effectiveness of color in the exhibit and my own appreciation of color.
Analytical Response:
The exhibit “Body Language: Picturing People” from the CU Art Museum examines how the shape, position, or motion of the body evokes a particular meaning or feeling in the viewer. Pieces made by a variety of artists are shown in the exhibit and cover a large time frame from 510 BCE to 2015. The pieces are made from many different mediums including basalt, lithography, photography, and paint, but all convey the importance of body gestures in the subjects of art. While all of the pieces from “Body Language: Picturing People” are engaging on their own and fit the fascinating theme of the exhibit, use of color allows some of the pieces stand out in an alluring way, while color causes other pieces to outshine the ones beside them.
How this relates to our third project:
“Body Language: Picturing People” is very closely related to project 3 because it shows how a variety of very visually unique artworks can relate over a central theme. This exhibit showed me that there are many ways to interpret and execute project 3. All of our final videos will hopefully be very different and tell a completely different story, but overall relate over the theme of identity.
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