Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Liz Skinner - Museam

1. I believe this piece is art because it is an idea that Julie Heffernan had and she made that idea come to life by drawing on an oil canvas.
2. I am interested in this piece because when I first saw it I thought of my childhood and how I always wanted a treehouse. I thought of how beautiful the colors came together in the secluded jungle and how much I would have loved this scene as a kid. Then, after reviewing the oil painting for awhile longer I saw the intricate details, read her exhibition summary, and painting summary. I realized that the painting had a wider meaning to it than it originally did and that the meaning pulled me in even more. The meaning behind the oil canvas comes from her overall meaning of her exhibition called “When the water rises” this specific painting coincides with her overall theme because it shows how the environment we live in is polluted and dead. The bigger meaning of the painting itself shows the practices sought out in India and other countries where they leave their dead on the highest points to decompose and meet heaven.
3. The location is in its own giant room upstairs in the museum especially picked for the space Julie Freedman needed for all of her works in the exhibition “When the water rises”. Overall, the location is great, spread out from the other paintings, and giving it its own space and thinking room. The painting has a well lit place for the viewer to focus in on the masterful detail.
4. For someone who cannot see the oil painting, this work of art is on a huge canvas about half the wall size. This canvas shows a three story modern looking tree house with birds, lights, decks on every level, and a rooftop deck. Off to the sides their is a small house in the distance that the painting summary says is an old jail and a 1950s gas station. If you look close you can see the plain looking jail and the red pumps from the gas station. Other things the painting has in it is birds perched up on the house. These birds are carrion birds that are well known for circling around the dead especially roadkill. The birds show how the house represents being a high in the sky deathbed for the dead to decompose. The house is depicted to show that its secluded to give a painless, beautiful death while rising to heaven; this is the last stop before going all the way. Lastly, the picture in the lower left corner shows humans agonizing and climbing a flimsy ladder to carry their dead to end and the highest point to decompose. The painting shows the beauty but hints at the ugliness of our changing world as well.

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