Blog Assignment #1
Shelby Spressart
9/10/09
The art gallery in the Haas Center was a very nice unique gallery done by Sue O’Donnell. I think that the work all went together nicely and flowed through the room well from piece to piece. Most of the pieces are black and white with words in them, where you have to look closely at the piece and study it. Some consist of color, which are mostly photographs. Everything flows and has a similar theme. She is not all over the place with her art, but more consistent in her ideas. Most of the art is framed and others are set on something rather than placed on the wall, which lets the observer move around and get close to it.
Shelby Spressart
9/10/09
The art gallery in the Haas Center was a very nice unique gallery done by Sue O’Donnell. I think that the work all went together nicely and flowed through the room well from piece to piece. Most of the pieces are black and white with words in them, where you have to look closely at the piece and study it. Some consist of color, which are mostly photographs. Everything flows and has a similar theme. She is not all over the place with her art, but more consistent in her ideas. Most of the art is framed and others are set on something rather than placed on the wall, which lets the observer move around and get close to it.
The image I chose is a circular piece in a square frame. It is black and gold in its colors. It is almost shaped as a pie piece if you look closely at it, because she divided it up into sections, while at the same time, she has gold lines coming out from the center.
I think this piece is similar to her periodic table of elements piece because she has similar words which are divided up. The circular one though is less straightforward and makes you think what she is trying to say. I think she is trying to express the different words she wrote in sections and break them down into meaning while at the same time she has craziness with the lines. So maybe all the meanings intersect at some point or they really cannot be broken down.
I thought your interpretation of this piece was very interesting but I would like to respectfully disagree. I feel that the artist is depicting a stardial of her life. The outline of the circle has words such as spiritual, intellectual, traditional, emotional, etc. I feel that each of those represents a category of her life. Each category takes up a different amount of space in the circle. For example, emotional takes up a large chunk of the circle which might mean that emotions play a very important role in her life. I feel that the lines contained in the circle are much like a constellation or multiple constellations. The constellations make up all of her memories which are confined to a specific category. Like constellations, different parts of her life are seen at different times of that year. Each star makes up a memory in the constellation. That is why it reminds me of an artistic stardial.
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