C McKellar's The Gentlemen IV
Nov. 24th, 2008 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithI have purchased my first piece of student art.
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Carrie McKellar is a student at Emily Carr University. She has also won contests to paint murals in Burnaby.
http://www.burnabyheights.com/site_assets/www.burnabyheights.com/images/dynamic/outlook%20fall%202006.pdf
I like this piece because I think it works on many levels. It is poking fun at the subjects, but I really think it is poking more fun at the audience that takes the bald presentation at face value - and at those who think they've seen past the stereotypes to the irony. It is working on the Old Goat, and the Bore, and the Sexist Pig, and all that - I think the bits of pink and red washed into the background colour bring out the whole atmosphere of talk of sex - but one has the feeling that each rather repels the other. And yet they will talk and mingle civilly. For me it also works on the theme of the God - the Winter King and the Summer King, each dying, each born again, slaves to the cycle, slaves to the drive. The contextless white space also works for me because it is like TV static with shots of phantom colour, just escaping the eye. I don't have the vocabulary to talk about art, but this reaches past my thinking brain and into my symbolic brain.
Sorry for the angle in the photo - it is propped against one of the chairs in my cubicle. It is 12 by 12 inches. I would recommend clicking on it to view it at a larger size.
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............Carrie McKellar is a student at Emily Carr University. She has also won contests to paint murals in Burnaby.
http://www.burnabyheights.com/site_assets/www.burnabyheights.com/images/dynamic/outlook%20fall%202006.pdf
I like this piece because I think it works on many levels. It is poking fun at the subjects, but I really think it is poking more fun at the audience that takes the bald presentation at face value - and at those who think they've seen past the stereotypes to the irony. It is working on the Old Goat, and the Bore, and the Sexist Pig, and all that - I think the bits of pink and red washed into the background colour bring out the whole atmosphere of talk of sex - but one has the feeling that each rather repels the other. And yet they will talk and mingle civilly. For me it also works on the theme of the God - the Winter King and the Summer King, each dying, each born again, slaves to the cycle, slaves to the drive. The contextless white space also works for me because it is like TV static with shots of phantom colour, just escaping the eye. I don't have the vocabulary to talk about art, but this reaches past my thinking brain and into my symbolic brain.
Sorry for the angle in the photo - it is propped against one of the chairs in my cubicle. It is 12 by 12 inches. I would recommend clicking on it to view it at a larger size.
