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Kara Walker has incredible reference points in her art, and her work is pretty brave, but the aesthetic doesn't resonate with me. I felt like her messages weren't done justice by the images. But, it's certainly worth seeing.
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Kara Walker has incredible reference points in her art, and her work is pretty brave, but the aesthetic doesn't resonate with me. I felt like her messages weren't done justice by the images. But, it's certainly worth seeing.
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What's the Ann connection?</p>
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Forget the Ann Connection, she is an amazing Artist, by her own merits, I am going later this month when my Fiance gets here...............</p>
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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I checked out the exhibit a few weeks ago. Her mixture of the sort of polite/delicate medium of paper cutting with loaded iconically racist imagery and vulgar actions being played out by the characters creates an uneasy feeling and sends a complicated message, which I think is the point. I wanted one of those Ann shirts, but $200 for a tee is too much! Nobody seems to have them left in size S anyway.
Kara Walker has incredible reference points in her art, and her work is pretty brave, but the aesthetic doesn't resonate with me. I felt like her messages weren't done justice by the images. But, it's certainly worth seeing.
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What's the Ann connection?</p>
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Forget the Ann Connection, she is an amazing Artist, by her own merits, I am going later this month when my Fiance gets here...............</p>
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Agree with Zam completely. [64] </p>
That reminds me though, has anyone noticed what the actual images are on the Ann pieces? I've been wondering this since I saw the runway show...[72]</p>
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
[quote user="Faust"]They are definitely not the slavery imagery type, more like something for children's books illustration, but they are definitely KW.
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Slavery? no Slavery? we are all slaves to somebody or something, if its even ourselves.............. </p>
Lady Z will be in town next tuesday for two weeks so i will be going later in the week, probably next sunday.......................</p>
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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This was a wonderfully comprehensive exhibit of Kara Walker's work, including several media that I've never seen her work in before. There was a smaller exhibit of her work at the Met a while back, but I'd argue that the Whitney's exhibit probes her message(s) a lot deeper. It's definitely a must see if you're in the NYC area.
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