An image that I saw recently that I can’t stop thinking about is a piece I saw at Jessica Luttrull’s art show “Self-Portrait at 22.” It was a dresser with shirts piled on top of it, but what was really interesting was every shirt had a realistic heart cut out of it and were actually left in the top drawer.
Three artists that have common elements with my art project are Andy Warhol, Taro Chiezo, and Sarah King (writes words on fruits). Andy Warhol was the first artist I thought of just because he used a banana in some of his pop art, but when you see one of his artworks with a banana in it, you know it’s his. The second artist, Chiezo created a sculpture called the superlambanana which is what it sounds like; a huge sculpture of a half-banana, half-lamb. Chiezo’s sculpture and mine share that fact that something simple is taken (a banana) and it is transformed into something complex. The third artist, Sarah King, did a series of fruit with words on them. The common element here is using words to get a point across (in my project I am using the dissolution of marriage form under the peel to represent my parents’ divorce).
The only thing I can think to say is to stay away from the Warhol-esque banana image. You were very right to say that when one sees a piece of art as a banana that Warhol immediately comes to mind. I would hate, as a viewer, to see the meaning your project (with so much emotional meaning behind it) be skewed just because Warhol layed claim to the banana first. Good luck.
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ReplyDeleteI liked the concept you had about the banana peeling, but maybe you could change the color of it, just because when I see something with a banana in it, I usually don't take it seriously. (you know like Charlie Chaplin slipping on the peel, or monkeys goofing around)
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I had seen some of Sarah King's stuff before and I think it's a really interesting angle. I agree with the others that you'll need to be careful so that your object doesn't become something silly but I think you can do it, and adding some kind of typography might help!
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