Art 21 Reflection#2

Ellen Gallagher:
Is and Artist who uses lots of collage, paint, and carpentry in her work. Her goal is to show the moods, feelings, and different sides of people and things through her art. I like the way she takes regular pictures from newspapers and things and adds paint, and materials to her work to make it look amazing. She talks about peoples emotions and feelings in a picture that she makes come alive just from adding more materials to her work. Collage is something that I enjoy doing, but the way she adds to much more to the collage is what makes it into something that I can relate to and want to try out. She has a lot of characters in her works the come up more then once. Many of her photos are from Ebony magazines from the 1920s. She has collected all of these photos from over time to use in her art. For one of her shoots she took many different black in white photos and added her collage and color to them. Ellen also does some paper carvings of designs, shapes, patterns, and objects. She does tattooing in medal works of photographs and paintings. Other collages and project that she does has more meaning behind them as well as lots of different materials to create one large amazing piece.

Cai Guo Qiang:
Is an artist who uses gun powder to make his drawings come to life on the page. His goal is to show his audience that art doesn't always have to say something to be great, it can just be something. Qiang's father was one of his inspirations. His father used to draw little landscapes on used matchboxes, as well as paint on silk scrolls. He says that when he first starts a drawing it is like falling in love for the first time. Qiang makes his work not knowing how it will turn out in the end. In the end his is either happy with his love or he isn't. I like that way his paints look with the animals and shapes in the middle, and the explosion around them, it reminds me of spray paint kind of. He first draws the animals and shapes on the paper and then he sprinkles the gun powder around them in a way that keeps the shapes and such in a form people can see in his art. I can relate to his art because sometimes art isn't made to be perfect, it is made to be something unexpected and amazing at the same time. Imperfections in art are sometimes what makes the piece better then it already it.