Eli Anatsui - Between Earth and Heavan

Between Earth and Heaven, 2006
El Anatsui (Ghanaian, b. 1944)
Aluminum, copper wire

91 x 126 in. (230 x 320 cm) 

detail

detail

Source: El Anatsui: [Between Earth and Heaven] (2007.96) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This work by an African master of international renown is a highly original creation that constitutes a response to a classic canonical form of expression. It is a powerful instance of the vitality of contemporary expression in Africa and the continuity that exists with the traditional forms that are the focus of the Museum's collection. The recent series of works that Between Earth and Heaven relates to refer to the celebrated West African traditions of strip-woven textiles, namely that of kente developed by Akan and Ewe weavers in Anatsui's native Ghana. Those traditional textiles are at once monumental in scale and highly sculptural in the way they drape the body as the apparel of leaders. The undulation of this work evokes that tactile quality, and its resplendent color scheme of gold, red, and black translates and transposes the aesthetic of finely woven silk into the medium of base metal.

Source: El Anatsui: [Between Earth and Heaven] (2007.96) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

FINAL DATE FOR PORTFOLIO

MAY 2, 2011

AP STUDIO EXAM

Portfolio should be complete by 25th. 

This gives you one week to make finishing touches 

and shoot photogrphs

Odilion Redon

    An early Modernist, French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher Odilon Redon (b. Bertrand-Jean Redon, 1840 –1916) explored imagination rather than perception in his art. Initially working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, his early works explore a darkly fantastic world of black and white amorphous creatures, and insects and plants with human heads, but in the latter years of his life Redon embraced pastels and oils, producing radiant, richly colored still lifes of flowers and vivid tableaux with religious and mythological themes.

    Though he disassociated himself from the established artistic movements of his day, Redon laid the groundwork for the Surrealist and Dada movements. Redon’s early work, darkly mysterious noir prints executed in shades of black, transformed the natural world into dark visions and strange fantasies, but Redon’s art took a dramatic shift when the artist was in his fifties, and he began producing luminous pastels and richly textured canvases that established his reputation as a noted colorist. From nightmares to daydreams, explore Odilon Redon’s imaginative art. 

One on One Critique - March 25th - Everything you have created so far.