We went to the Depaul University Art museum and saw a few artworks. The Depaul Art museum is a very small museum and they do not have a lot of artworks. Most of the artwork are representational and few are abstract. My group members and I like a sculpture art and a decorative art, but the artwork we liked most was the decorative art by Kehinde Wiley. He is a portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of people with brown skin in heroic poses. His artworks are representational and realistic. Kehinde Wiley work addresses the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary of ongoing HIV/AIDS in America through the lens of childhood, education, popular culture and race. The background of the artwork is decorated, and it's called pattern. The artwork consist of primary and secondary colours, and the colours are bright, clear, and it really attracts.

Midterm Question 9

AKUA'BA FIGURE
This is a statuette from the Asante Kingdom in Ghana made of wood and supposedly influencing pregnancy. It represents the complication and happiness involved with the safe delivery of a baby. It is an Asante concept of true beauty with some characteristics labeled on the statuette indicating a good health of a baby. This statuette was a family lineage, passed from a mother to her daughter. When a woman is being blessed by a fetish priest, she carries this statuette and treats it as if it was her child with the perception that the gods will favor her and give her a child judging from the degree of care-taking.

 

Midterm exams. Question number 18. An image of  representational artwork.

We went to AIC and saw a lot of artwork by the different artist. I love the museum very much. It's a very nice and a comfortable place. It's the biggest museum I've ever been to, I felt like I'm home. I liked most of the artworks and how nicely the artworks are decorated. Some of the sculpture work looks real and I wonder how the idea came up, the skills and how it was made. Some of the artworks are representational and some are also abstract. Most of the artwork are realistic and impressive. The artworks consist if complementary colours, primary colours and secondary colours. It also made with lines and they are light. The form of the artworks are seen, the contour and the subjects matter of the artwork.