South Africa- Prints MOMA

Highlights:

Diane Victor's Disasters of Peace series:




note the framing and text within the image. The print serious is harshly printed often with small smudges at the edges of the pressing. These smudges reminded of the hands of the printer, black outlines on their nails and stained palms, providing a nice pairing with the hands of those depicted.

if goya's disasters and middle school class annotations


Awesomely raw and political Bitter Komix the journal of satical and crude south african voices.





goya even makes another appearence... Could there be something about this Spanish artist that made a big impact on this generation?

Gaugin- Maker of Myth

National Gallery, Washington D.C. 2011

Exhibition collaboration with the TATE

I have never been a fan, and I'm still not. The exhibition was set up to expose the myths that Gauguin created surrounding his work. I think you can add this view to any major artist with a large enough body of work. You only have one set of eyes and the artist dissects the world from their perspective.
Gauguin, well yeah his symbolism and impressionist style sure was innovative in his time..but why look at it now. This exhibition was more like an artist lesson it did not connect with it i current times. If we see this exhibition in 5o years it could be the same.
Myth is when nothing is precise, there is no equal and opposite reaction.

Actually the Myth that I experience is that of my not very Polynesian roommates being obnoxious