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=// Tim Hawkinson //= =// Cindy Sherman //= =// Kiki Smith //=

KiKi Smith:
Kiki Smith is the daughter of a famous American Sculptor Tony Smith. She was born in Germany but raised in New Jersey. Her family was kind of dark and her work reflects that dark side that her family favored. Sculptures, drawings, and prints are what her pieces consist of. Her sculptures from what I saw were a lot of people in their bare form not in a usual position. She usually portrays women in their bare form which is something that makes her a feminist. She likes to use dead animals such as birds in her pieces which shows a naturalistic side to her. Some of her sculptures show her interest in people floating or levitating off the ground. She also makes blankets and other things that are of use around the house. Her pieces almost always have stories behind them so without hearing the story you might find it very difficult to understand the vision. To make those human figures she actually casts them instead of using models she casts the bodies form and makes it out of whatever material she wants to sculpture to be made out of. She uses paper mache on the cast itself. Kiki Smith definitely finds meaning in everything and she looks at like in a calm way. I found it interesting in the video when one of the wax castings dropped everyone else was shocked and she replied 'oh who cares'. She is very calm and finds a meaning to almost anything.  []

Cindy Sherman: She was born in New Jersey in 1954 and recieved a bachelors degree from State University of New York. A main media of hers is photography. She likes to manipulate the way she looks to match her vision on what she wants to capture in the photo. Most of them are portrait style so they are posed sort of like a school picture would be. This is obviously a very different style also something is that is unique about her work is that she uses film in some of her pieces too. So she choose to capture a moment rather than illustrate it out herself. Her inspiration for doing her art this way was a book she made when she was little. It had many photos in it and she circled herself in each one and wrote below it "that's me". Her portrait style pieces make me think the mona lisa by Da Vinci. She is not giving across the same message but she does tend to drift to that style everytime.