Artwork

Wow, this one was hard. I don't know why I struggled so much with this assignment, but it just would not come together at first. As you can see, I used the statue at the museum and a pyramid to represent our museum trip. The mountains are the Upstate (USC Upstate). The spheres came from the shape of the gourds in the still life and the red fruit represents still life images in general. The lizard came from the stick dragon I made during our class last week. I wanted this picture to say something about mankind and art making. I wanted to show how mankind dreams (the faces looking up and the lizard as the symbol of dreams) and in his small way copies nature (the mountains become a pyramid.) The pyramid is sturdy, but already beginning to be taken over by nature. The spheres are worlds, large and small, green and full of life, or purple and mysterious. God makes art that is in tune with nature like the face in the background that is merged with the mountains. Mankind tries to copy this perfect art and creates images that can be noble, but do not have the same kind of life (the statue). Nature chips away at the works of man just as soon as they are created (the lake eating away at the statue). Finally, nature, in its own mysterious way, rolls over all that mankind does (the lizard sitting on the pearls of his wisdom is about to push the mysterious world over the statue.) A little weird, I know. Just be glad I did not do what I was thinking about. I had made a dragon out of clay and was going to try to attach it somehow. The lizard I ended up using is from a photograph I took of a lizard we caught in the art room at school. She was very photogenic and I think she enjoyed the photo session as much as I did. She was certainly interested in the camera and danced around in all sort of poses. I was lucky that I had one with her leg up in a pushing action. Actually, I think she was peeing, but we'll not mention that out loud.