All Nations Have Their Moment Of Foolishness Analysis
School-wide Writing
In Richard Notkin piece “All Nations have their moment of Foolishness” everybody has their different views on why he made this piece. My views on this piece was that he was trying to tell a story with this sculpture he made. Before reading his artist statement about the piece I figured that it was how he made the piece and the story behind the piece. Notkins statement didn’t change my views about the piece because all he wrote about was about his other projects and how he built this piece. Notkins stats, “Consists of 344 separate unglazed earthenware tiles … tiles are fired in sawdust-filled sagger”. He goes on and talks about more about the tiles and how they're made. Overall, my analysis about this piece is I didn’t understand …show more content…
For instance, the overall image of this piece is George W. Bush, but if you look closely you can see micro images in the piece. You can see skulls, crates, braincells, a hooded prisoner, barbed wire, destroyed building and a lot more images hidden in this piece. The artist stats, “Relief images impressed on the tiles include buildings and cities demolished … skeletal remains, nuclear mushroom clouds, the infamous hooded prisoner in Abu clouds, barbed wire, bombs falling and additional images of war and destruction, including the iconic screaming horse from Picasso’s painting”. From this example stated this is exactly what I just mentioned, but there’s no reason for why he added those images except they all represent war and destruction. Overall, the images the Richard Notkin he explained didn’t have a reason for being in this, only because they represented war and destruction. I have many reasons why my views hasn’t changed about this piece. For example, he didn’t have an overall purpose for making this project. He also didn’t put any emotion into his artist statement or why he built it. The only thing that almost change my view about this piece is when he states, “My work is a visual plea for sanity. It’s really quite simple”. From this example it tells us that the only real reason for his work is because he needs to do something.Overall,
In Richard Notkin piece “All Nations have their moment of Foolishness” everybody has their different views on why he made this piece. My views on this piece was that he was trying to tell a story with this sculpture he made. Before reading his artist statement about the piece I figured that it was how he made the piece and the story behind the piece. Notkins statement didn’t change my views about the piece because all he wrote about was about his other projects and how he built this piece. Notkins stats, “Consists of 344 separate unglazed earthenware tiles … tiles are fired in sawdust-filled sagger”. He goes on and talks about more about the tiles and how they're made. Overall, my analysis about this piece is I didn’t understand …show more content…
For instance, the overall image of this piece is George W. Bush, but if you look closely you can see micro images in the piece. You can see skulls, crates, braincells, a hooded prisoner, barbed wire, destroyed building and a lot more images hidden in this piece. The artist stats, “Relief images impressed on the tiles include buildings and cities demolished … skeletal remains, nuclear mushroom clouds, the infamous hooded prisoner in Abu clouds, barbed wire, bombs falling and additional images of war and destruction, including the iconic screaming horse from Picasso’s painting”. From this example stated this is exactly what I just mentioned, but there’s no reason for why he added those images except they all represent war and destruction. Overall, the images the Richard Notkin he explained didn’t have a reason for being in this, only because they represented war and destruction. I have many reasons why my views hasn’t changed about this piece. For example, he didn’t have an overall purpose for making this project. He also didn’t put any emotion into his artist statement or why he built it. The only thing that almost change my view about this piece is when he states, “My work is a visual plea for sanity. It’s really quite simple”. From this example it tells us that the only real reason for his work is because he needs to do something.Overall,