Briana Carter
9/9/14
Review
    
     The difference between William Kentridge and Chris Oflili if the fact that Oflili is all about heritage and bright elaborate colors while Kentridge always has a very bland sense to his work. It sometimes is black and white which does not stand out much while Oflili has work that is asking to stand out. He uses glitter and paint and collage. Both have very powerful messages, but two totally different styles. I do not particularly like Kentridges work because I like work that is going to catch my eye, but he is a brilliant man.
     While watching the art 21 videos, I got a little confused because I really didn't understand how time plays into these artist, but as I dug a little deeper, I started understanding it more and more even though that our project is necessarily not like their work at all.
      Paryear built things. He built things that did not quite make sense to anybody who walked into a room and saw his piece, but he knew exactly what he wanted to say in each one of his pieces. There was some long story he went through talking about the brick wall for example. I would never have known that it was a wall separating a larger and more masculine figure from a smaller figure.
     Walker's silhouette's were absolutely amazing. I loved her meaning behind every single piece that she did. A lot of them were very strange and horrifying, but slavery was a horrible and tragic state. Everybody is choosing to let go of the past when she is just elaborating it. I am really interested in doing a silhouette for my time project. She has inspired me.
     The last artist was Sally Mann. Her photographs were different. I have never seen anybody take so many nude photographs of their children before. And it was strange because she felt as if it was so normal. Her kids were even in the video expressing how they felt about their childhood. "It was like they didn't even have a mother anymore." They said that she judges everything in the world as if it art. I just didn't even know how to take it when she showed the photographs of her nude children. Even when they got older, she still took nudes of them. Her photographs are a example of time because it is nudes of her children as they grow up. Their changing bodies.