Art
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Loading the Canon #10: Wrapping it Up
Loading the Canon #10 by Helena-Anne Hittel Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wrapping it Up When you wrap things in fabric, they sometimes look more interesting. The essential shape of the object is more visible. Look at things this way. If you were to wrap a rock face in fabric, you’d see so much more. You could Continue reading
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Loading the Canon#7: A Blast from the Past at Avalon Island
Loading the Canon#7 by Helena-Anne Hittel A Blast from the Past at Avalon Island I recently attended Third Thursdays, an art walk and gallery hop taking place every third Thursday of the month in Downtown Orlando. This is a great opportunity for local artists to showcase their works. I met the curator of one such Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #6: Jamali
Loading the Canon #6 by Helena Anne-Hittel Jamali He’s brilliant, with an MFA from the University of Florida in painting and sculpture, an MA in Advanced Economics, and Faculties of Science in Chemistry and physics. He’s a visionary, contributing to the art world with his mystical expressionism. Best of all, he lives in your backyard–if Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #5: Sensing the Artist
Loading the Canon #5 by Helena-Anne Hittel Sensing the Artist I’m an art historian. I study art. I am expected to know what the work is called, what it is made of, who made it, when they made it, and (depending on the professor) maybe even the dimensions of said work. In short, if it Continue reading
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Gutter Space #6: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Gutter Space #6 by Leslie Salas The Mice Behind the Masks: Art Spiegelman’s Maus Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a framed narrative graphic novel in which the relationship between the author, Artie, and his father, Vladek, is exposed and intertwined with the author’s attempt to capture and relate his father’s experience as a persecuted Jew during Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #4: Marcel Dzama
Loading the Canon #4 by Helena-Anne Hittel Marcel Dzama “Marcel Dzama’s work is characterized by an immediately recognizable visual language that draws from a diverse range of references and artistic influences, including Dada and Marcel Duchamp.” Oh man. The moment you give me Marcel Duchamp, I kinda want to scream (although, if we looked at Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #3: Hell is a Studio
Loading the Canon #3 by Helena-Anne Hittel Hell is in a Studio Art gets serious once you get into the universities. That’s because this is the major you’ve chosen to pursue, and your school determined to produce artists finer than those at other schools BECAUSE UCF IS MORE ARTISTIC THAN ALL OF YOU SIMPLE PLEBES. Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #2: Untitled
Loading the Canon by Helena-Anne Hittel Untitled It isn’t always required of an artist to have a title for a piece. This is one of the art world’s many liberties. Art without a title can leave a lot to the imagination. It doesn’t mean that an artist has given up. People look at pieces differently Continue reading
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Gutter Space #2: Thompson’s Narrative Braiding in Habibi
Gutter Space #2 by Leslie Salas Thompson’s Narrative Braiding in Habibi In the graphic novel Habibi, Craig Thompson uses the theme of willing- versus forced-sacrifice to effectively braid narratives from the Bible and the Qur’an with the coming of age stories of orphans Dodola and Zam. This juxtaposition of stories and images emphasizes influences the Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #1: Museum Glass
Loading the Canon #1 by Helena-Anne Hittel Museum Glass I don’t like art. I LOVE it. People look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them I go through museums or galleries in hours, maybe even days depending on the exhibit. I read every single label or bit of information presented and try to Continue reading
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