Art Analysis: One Hundred Lavish Month Of Bushwhack
Hannah Capece
Professor Baldaia
ART 3040
15 December 2016
Art Analysis Essay
For my analysis I chose to compare and contrast Drawing for Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang and Wangechi Muti, One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack. These two pieces may look completely different actually share some similarities. I am going to discuss Cai Guo-Qiang and Wangechi Muti individually as artists and contrast how their art work differentiate from each other.
What I learned about Muti is that she interested in how stereotypes become embedded into the public conscious, and through her art she investigates gender and racial stereotypes, in particular those pertaining to black women, formulating a distinctly personal position on feminism, postcolonial continental Africa, and globalization. She has created striking collages of very elaborate hybrid women, composed of cut-out images culled from magazines ranging from Vogue to National Geographic, outdated ethnographic surveys, pornography, and botanical illustrations. (moma.org) …show more content…
It looks as though the woman’s leg is almost jumping off the page and her heel is going to kick you. Also, if you look closer you will notice blood hemorrhaging from her head and mangled right foot. The woman appears to be mutilated and unstable, she is being held up at her ankle by a small, sinister-looking figure. Muti has described women as “barometers,” innately vulnerable to the fluctuation of social and cultural norms. (moma.org) Muti also makes her collages on Mylar instead of paper, because it’s plastic surface allows paint to pool rather than absorb into the
Professor Baldaia
ART 3040
15 December 2016
Art Analysis Essay
For my analysis I chose to compare and contrast Drawing for Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang and Wangechi Muti, One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack. These two pieces may look completely different actually share some similarities. I am going to discuss Cai Guo-Qiang and Wangechi Muti individually as artists and contrast how their art work differentiate from each other.
What I learned about Muti is that she interested in how stereotypes become embedded into the public conscious, and through her art she investigates gender and racial stereotypes, in particular those pertaining to black women, formulating a distinctly personal position on feminism, postcolonial continental Africa, and globalization. She has created striking collages of very elaborate hybrid women, composed of cut-out images culled from magazines ranging from Vogue to National Geographic, outdated ethnographic surveys, pornography, and botanical illustrations. (moma.org) …show more content…
It looks as though the woman’s leg is almost jumping off the page and her heel is going to kick you. Also, if you look closer you will notice blood hemorrhaging from her head and mangled right foot. The woman appears to be mutilated and unstable, she is being held up at her ankle by a small, sinister-looking figure. Muti has described women as “barometers,” innately vulnerable to the fluctuation of social and cultural norms. (moma.org) Muti also makes her collages on Mylar instead of paper, because it’s plastic surface allows paint to pool rather than absorb into the