@camryntho You could maybe add in the thought that the students are at the bottom of the piece and as they transform through graduation, the become the butterflies at the top?
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I chose this mural by Saya Woolfalk for a piece that represents graduation in a physical and literal sense as the composition has several forms of graduation in color and size of shapes, but also in the feeling of graduation as beautiful, huge, and vibrant.
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@adiarth287 And the idea that the smooth left side is like the smooth, routines of life during school and then crashing into the complexity of the real world.
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Maya Freelon’s piece makes me ponder graduation as it pictorially represents the emotional complexity of this moment. We’ve barreled towards this goal for so long on this straight line path just to be thrust into this unmetered, scary, yet enthralling world. #arth287artoninsta
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I chose these two pieces to remind me of graduation. The bridge/backbend sculpture piece represents the bridge from youth and college life to each stage of life afterwards. And the drawing represents the wisdom and age that will come with each of those stages. #arth287artoninsta
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The New Republic video was cool to see how Wiley’s parents sent him to the former-USSR as a kid to study art. The fact that they sent him to a hostile place, yet he came out almost an entirely new artist. #arth287artoninsta
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The Kehinde Wiley interview was interesting to see how he created a unique, first ever Presidential portrait that portrayed more about Obama’s identity than just a plain background. #arth287artoninsta
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The Birth of Cool video is interesting to see how his painting were overlooked because he painted different subjects to the norm, and he thought outside the box. Finally getting recognition! #arth287artoninsta
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Weems’ paintings from this reading are excellent at portraying the ideas of family and life and how it is centered in a piece of art. Using the kitchen to centralize this point and to attempt to emphasize a woman’s experience. #arth287artoninsta
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I chose this piece by Kalup Linzy because it brings a lot of thoughts to the forefront of the piece. How two people, enchanted by their romance for each other, view the world. Together they are one, and in one they don’t need anyone else. The blank space surrounding the pair 1/
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I chose this piece by Theaster Gates because it is really thought provoking. A painting attempting to articulate Black space and the land and labor it inherits. What looks like pieces of wood combine to resemble a wall maybe. Not sure how to interpret this but it is intriguing 1/
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These two pieces by Nate Lewis are some of the most unique I've seen while going through art on instagram. There is so much texture, a deep contrast with the color and black and white, and a mystery of what the patterns and designs mean. #arth287ArtonInsta
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@SobotaTatum I love how to the wings are portrayed in this piece. And especially the Angel in the top right.
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When I think of spring, I think of bright vibrant colors, which is exactly what is depicted in #NaudlineCluvie's piece. She depicts African American women in various manners and colors to emphasize strength and prosperity. #ARTH287 #ARTH287ArtonInsta
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I chose this piece by Zoe Charleton because I am confused by it. I see a bigger woman kneeling with a golden Afro and this object coming from her stomach. Is this piece supposed to contest societal norms, or something different? #arth287artoninsta
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This shows his care for someone who helped raise him, and gave him life. The idea that his art was not bigger than her, and that her life and story was worth documenting. #arth287artoninsta 2/
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The YT video on Motley’s painting of his grandmother really struck me about the importance of his grandmother in his life. While he was enveloped by painting of the Jazz era, he was able to stop and document someone incredibly important in his life. #arth287artoninsta 1/
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I chose this piece by Maren Hassinger, Leaning (1980). I chose this piece because the subtle complexity that it brings to the piece. How the steel cables fray and sway together in different directions. As if it is moving like water or wind. #arth287artoninsta
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#arth287artoninsta I chose this piece by Nick Cave. It says “TruthBeTold” and is displayed on the facade of this building. It is just the words, a powerful display that doesn’t not use external stylistic choices to display the message.
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This piece by Nina Chanel Abney recreates the cover art of Tupac’s final album. However, this rendition adds in skulls, hands, two white doves, and two humans in white gowns. These could add to the pain and mystery that Tupac’s death caused the nation and his fans.
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