Emin's Artworks Show The Viewer example essay topic

1. Art Express Exhibition The Artworks which interest me are: -"It's not Black and White" by Beth Josey The Artworks used 'printmaking' technique, "Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. Such fine prints are considered original works of art, even though they can exist in multiple copies. Major techniques include relief, intaglio, and surface printing (e. g., lithography and stenciling). Early printmaking was influenced by a desire for multiple prints, but artists discovered that when a drawing is translated into a print, it takes on entirely new characteristics, and the metamorphosis became the strongest attraction for artists.

See also engraving, etching, mezzotint, and woodcut". (Encyclopedia) Josey uses the technique as the emotion of physical language, the tones 'black and white', 'light and darkness's how the way she united colour scheme. There is also a dramatic impact of severe light or drowning darkness has traditional associations with 'the good' and 'the evil'. (the girl sitting down as if she's the victim and the boy standing up as if he has the power). Josey's artworks have the emotional link between the artwork and the viewer as well.

For me it was more like the way she expresses her world. -"Whoever controls the Media-The images- Controls the Culture" by Allen Ginsberg Ginsberg also uses 'printmaking' technique; her artwork though is more expressive than Josey's. Ginsberg explored this concept through the expressive nature of woodcut and lino; she also uses other materials like fabrics which she printed on. She basically influence by the condition of 'War'. The girl in the second artwork for example, she's known as a 'symbol of Vietnam War'.

A photographer Denise Chong photographed 9-year-old Kim Phu c running down a road, she was aflame with napalm burns 35% of her body. The black and white colour, which usually used in printmaking, is used in Ginsberg's artwork. Expressions of Emin Tracey Emin was born in London 1963. Her life wasn't turn out to be the way she wanted to be. She got raped when she was 13 and dropped out from school, two abortions, and emotional suicide. Emin started making artworks as soon as she felt she needed art more than anything, for her 'she needs art like she needs God'.

Emin's artworks show the viewer clearly how she feels about the condition of her life was, they tell us about her dream, her world, sex life, motherhood, freedom and her expectations. "Chinese Girls-Feeling pregnant" for example, it's a large size of fabrics with writing on it which says "Sometimes I want to have children, not my own but other people children, Chinese people's children, and sometimes I don't understand this world". There are also some images of three little Chinese children. This artwork obviously shows the viewer how much she wants children and wants to be pregnant. Her works are totally stood out in the group of other artworks. It's different, it's something new and it's so expressive.

Emin's art is one of disclosure, using her life events in works ranging from story telling, drawing, filmmaking, installation, painting, neon, photography, appliqu " ed blankets and sculpture. Emin exposes herself, her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in an incredibly direct manner. Often tragic and frequently humorous, it is as if by telling her story and weaving it into the fiction of her art she somehow transforms it.