Week 10

 

Colombia divided by name origin, Angie Cardona

Amy sherald:

“She tried a rainbow of options, yellows and reds and pinks, but none felt quite right, until she

invoked the portrait itself. “ ‘Breonna, what color do you want this dress to be? Please, tell me

what color you want this dress to be,’ ” Sherald says she mused. Then she hit on blue, a shade

that echoes Taylor’s March birthstone, the aquamarine”

“There are other painstaking, heartbreaking details: the gold cross on a chain necklace; the

engagement ring Taylor would never get to wear, on her left hand (photographed by LaToya

Ruby Frazier). This is Sherald’s nod to Taylor’s future and how her life was taken from her.”

Kehinde Wiley:

“Even the smallest details, things such as the open collar, the absence of the tie, the sense that

his body is actually moving toward you, physically, in space, as opposed to feeling aloof. All

of those subtle things go into what a portrait means”

“When you look at the background, you’ll see that there are flowers from Indonesia, flowers

from Kenya, Hawaii, the state flower of Chicago. And it all kind of gives you a sense of space

and place and his trajectory. I think for many people it was a little bit jarring to see his image

peering through this field of flora. But there was a method to the madness.”

Reading (2 quotes):

“Claude Monet’s Imrpression: Sun Risning (1873). Without diminishing our appreciation of

Monet’s handling of color and light, I want to stress that this is a painting that at once reveals

and makes beautiful human enviromental destruction. Coming late to the industrial Revolution,

France was just experiencing the smog produced by industrial by industrial coal use in the

mid-nineteenth century.” (174)

“ The quantities involved are minute. The carbon balance rested at 278 parts per million in the

atmosphere- a tiny percentage of invisible gas. Human activity, such as the burning of fossil

fuels, has raised that humber to 400 parts per million- still tiny , still invisible, but now causing

increasingly owrful effects in the climate worldwide.”

The text explicitly states the ill effects of climate change on Earth since the precipice

of the Industrial Revolution. Even before the creation of social media, artists portrayed the

despicable condition of the surrounding environments from Europe to the New World (US).

Along with climate change, came with the devistations of animal population due to human

manipulation which in extreme cases caused mass extinctions of select species.