POST #15

This is a portrait of Barack Obama telling people to vote for him. The message of this portrait was to try to convince people and to get them to vote for Barack Obama. He may have used this piece of artwork for campaigns and at voting polls. Sheppard put this artwork on posters, shirts, buttons, billboards, etc. Another message I received out of this artwork was to support him, and persuade people that he really wanted a huge change.

Post # 16

Carrie Mae Weems was a very great person. I found a lot of her artworks very inspiring. One of her artworks I chose to discuss that I felt mainly related to me, was the faded Black African American women from New York. I feel this particular piece of work compared to me the most because I normally portray this attitude. To expand my point of view, to me this image displays an African American woman who feels good about herself. This relates to me because no matter what others think I have this mindset each and everyday. Another reason this image relates to me is because she is standing like a model, and I model during my free time. The final reason why I chose this portrait was because she is an African American woman and i found this image very interesting. As stated before, this image of the faded woman related to me the most.

POST #14

             This is a picture of note someone wrote and a kid found it in the playground. This connects to me in many different ways. One way it connects to me is because when I was little, the other kids use to write notes like this to. For example, when I was younger, my friend Jasmine sent a note to someone and asked him did he like her. Another reason I chose this certain picture because I could never spell tomorrow. I found it extremely interesting to me because I did the same thing when I was child. As you can see, this image connected to me in many different ways.

POST # 13

In the picture above, it shows a picture of many different scarves. I show this picture because I feel nostalgia about scarves.  I feel nostalgia about scarves because when I was five years old, I received this scarf for my birthday and I loved it. I loved this scarf so much that I would not take it off. I still love scarves today too. My mother always reminds me of this day, every time she sees me with a scarf on, she mentions that her and my father had to wait until I fell asleep to remove the scarf. This scarf was really important, I had extremely nostalgic for this particular scarf.

POST # 12

Nat Goldin was an extremely great artist. Nat is a great example of a postmodern artist. Some examples that have helped me come up with this idea are that she has numerous artworks that depict representin’. Most of all Goldin’s paintings represent some type of message or concept. A great example where this can be pointed out would be the picture I used of the lady who had been abused. I found this an extremely outstanding way to approach the concept of representin’. As you can see this is the major reason why I would say Nat Goldin is considered a postmodern artist.

POST # 11

Nat Goldin is an American documentary photographer. She was born on September 12, 1953 in Washington D.C. Nat a very hard life; she was in and out of foster homes, which helped her shape her career. She one was famous for her photographs, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in 1981, where she received this song from the title of an Opera song. This imaged described the drug use, abuse, violence, and aggressive couples. Another thing that she was famous for are her photographs of different drag queens in the 90’s. Nat Goldin then died in 1984, after having an extremely successful career on photographer.

-Below, is the image of Nat Goldin's famous photograph, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.    

POST # 10

   This is an image of Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima is the lady off the syrup bottle and pancake box. I feel this portrait stereotypes Black African American women. I believe that this image is stereotyping Black African American women mainly because of the huge hoop earrings, the head scarf and bright red lip stick. This is stereotypical her because most people say that most black women wears scarfs and make up. Another way I would consider this image trying to criticize and label Black African American women is because it is said that most prostitutes are Black middle aged women, and this is how they dress, gigantic earrings, lots of make up, and nets and head scarfs on their head. I chose this image because I feel that this image is labeling a certain sex and race as a whole, which is considered stereotyping.