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Nicole Waite
Janet Fotu
10 Page Essay
November 29, 2016
2-D Artists
Neo Rauch:
Born April 18, 1960 in East Germany. He is known for his paintings, and got the Vincent
Award in 2002. He attended Hochschule fr Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. His paintings are
said to be with personal history with politics of industrial alienation. His parents died when he
was a baby, in a train wreck, and his parents were studying visual arts before they died. He grew
up with his grandparents. He was a professor from 2005-2009 at the Leipziger Hochschule fr
Grafik und Buchkunst. He now works with his wife, who is also an artist.

Questions I would ask:

1. Why did you paint the shapes you did for people?
A: Because it was my style
2. Why did some paintings seem more realistic in forms than others
A: (Im not sure how he would reply to that one.)
Alberto Giacometti:

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He was born October 10, 1901 in Switzerland and died in January, the 11th in 1966. He is
known for painting, sculpting and drawing, he attended The School of Fine Arts, Geneva. He was
also married, and his brothers had also gone on to be artists. He won the "Grand Prize for
Sculpture" in 1962 at Venice Biennale. When he died in 1966 it was of a heart disease. His later
works were shown in a number of large exhibits in Europe.

Questions I would ask:

1. How did you make your art look both realistic and a little bit distorted?
A: I practiced and worked at my art for a long time
2. Which of the mediums you did your art in was your favorite?
A: Probably sculpting (because I saw more of them than paintings and drawings)
Susan Rothenberg:

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She was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945. She went to Cornell University and
graduated, then went to D.C and studied at George Washington University and the Corcoran
Museum School. He was best known for his painting, but she also worked with drawings. She
received the Rolf Schock Prizes in Visual Arts in 2003. She was married to a man in 1971 to
1979 and they had a daughter.

Questions I would ask:

1. Why all her work is done in such a thick looking medium?
A: Probably because thats what she liked
2. What her favorite thing to paint/draw was?
A: Probably animals because thats what is most found
Joan Jonas:

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She was born in New York City, New York in 1963. She was one of the most important
female artists from 1960s into the 1970s. She is known for Performance Art, Video Art and
Sculptures. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and received an
MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University. Also, she received the Foundation for
Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award in 1995.

Questions I would Ask:

1. Which type of art was your favorite?
A: I think she would say the video art.
2. Why she used the tools she did when making her art?
A: Because it gives it a different look and makes it her own art.

Cindy Sherman:

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She was born on January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey she was the youngest in
her family. She went to Buffalo State College, which is where she became interested in visual
arts and also is where she began painting. She was married and then divorced and she received
the award MacArthur Fellowship.

Questions I would ask:

1. Why is her art the way it is?
A: I dont know what she would reply to this.
2. What her inspiration is for her art?
A: I dont know what she would reply to this.

Sandy Skoglund:
She was born September 11, 1946 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She is known for her art
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history and studio, then in the Massachusetts and University of Iowa she studied filmmaking,
multimedia art, and printmaking. Growing up she spent her childhood all over the country,
visiting Maine, Connecticut, and California.

Questions I would ask:

1. Why do your art pictures feature one specific color?
A: Because it gives a focus to the image.
2. What is your inspiration?
A: Everything that is life like and both not.

Francisco Clemete:

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1. Reaction: Wow, that looks really intense and amazing.

2. Perceptual Analysis:
a. Representation: Large face, eyes are most of the face looking very large and sad.
b. Formal analysis: Theme, sad. You can see the person has been crying and looks
both mad and very distraught.
c. Formal characterization: The face has a hint of blue to it, like it is getting the
message of being sad across to you.
What does it mean?
1. Personal Interpretation: To me it means that the person is hurt by whatever it is that they
are seeing in the moment. The picture shows how the pain and sadness are both in it.
2. Contextual Examination: It is a man, unknown where or who it is but you can see that
they are feeling something strongly.
What is the significance?:

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1. Evaluation:
a. Is the work successful: I think the work is very successful in getting across the
meaning of being hurt.
b. Is the theme significant to human beings: Yes it is, you can see the pain of the
person in the picture.
c. How have your perception of and/or preference of the work changed ?: My
perception and my preference of the work have not changed.

Kojo Grifffin:

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1. Reaction: Dang, that picture is really deep

2. Perceptual Analysis:
a. Representation: Two images in one, of a mother helping her daughter and then
the other way around
b. Formal analysis: The mother is helping the daughter on the left with her shoes or
pad for skating it looks like and then in the right the daughter is in turn helping
her mother walk.
c. Formal characterization: the mother daughter relationship is really nice and is
showing that we will be like that at some point if we keep good relationships.
What does it mean?
3. Personal Interpretation: To me it show that as a parent you will spend your time taking
care of your children and then in return when you get older they will come to help you as
you once did them.
a. Contextual Examination: The history of this piece is just showing how family
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What is the significance?:
2. Evaluation:
a. Is the work successful: Yes I think the work is very successful
b. Is the theme significant to human beings: Yes the theme is successful, being that
there are actually more than one, they both are. On the left it looks to be happiness
as the mom helps her child and on the right it looks to be a thankful/sadness
because the mom is thankful for her help while the daughter seems sad because
her mother is growing older.
c. How have your perception of and/or preference of the work changed ?: My
perception and preference of the work did not change, I liked it alot when I first
saw it and still do after the analysis of it.
Source: Anderson, T. (1993). Defining and Structuring Art Criticism for Education,
Studies of Art Education, 34(4), pp. 199-208.