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"Sometimes I feel like I’m making an extended alphabet, or that images encapsulate parts of an idea. By using parts of that alphabet or hieroglyphic system, I can recombine them and come up with new meanings. Because they’re so crisp and have definite shape, sometimes I think it feels like they’re letters." =====  Laylah Ali

Laylah Ali has numerous degrees which led her to the path of small extremely accurate detailed gouache paintings. She spends many months on each piece, meticulously perfecting every aspect of her paintings. She is known for doing interesting pieces on often violent relationships, political problems, and betrayals. She also includes everyday items in her work and her paintings resemble comic books and hieroglyphs. Laylah Ali's work is very "21st century" for two reasons. Her paintings are so detailed and precise, they look like they could have been made on the computer. The lines and colors she uses are very intriguing and different. Also her paintings are set up in an almost comic book feel and have a very current subject matter that we haven't seen before. Her art is something new and different that we haven't seen yet, especially because she is a woman. Laylah Ali relates to Michaelangelo because her paintings are so precise and perfected. She was probably influenced more from her own life and her own views because her pieces are all so different. She also could be compared to the Arrangement in Black and Gray because of the lines and shapes in her pieces and how when you look at each piece that it was you see, although her paintings have deeper meaning about our society. Yet at the same time, Laylah Ali doesn't relate to a lot of the artist we have learned about so far because not only is she a woman, but she has controversial topics in her work. I chose this artist because I just learned about gouache when I went to the Chicago Art Museum and I wanted to learn more about it. Her work will inspire me to try gouache and to do more planning for my work.

 

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“Such juxtaposing and mixing of Hindu and Muslim iconography is a parallel to the entanglement of histories of India and Pakistan.” =Shahzia Sikander =

Shahzia Sikander was born in Pakistan and had an education in art and even went to the best art school in the country, The Rhode Island School of Design. She specializes in Indian and Persian miniature paintings and often mixes the two cultures and religions. She also creates murals and installations using different materials and texture. For her paintings, Sikander focuses on technique and perfection, but for the murals and installations she uses mixed media and tissue paper and had a freer, looser technique. Sikander has a lot of history and context in her paintings which she portrays through creative expression, making her work contemporary. She brings cultures and religions together, and portrays them in modern contemporary ways with her lines and shapes. She changes the way we think about the two cultures through her different way of portraying the two. Sikander is very similar to Edgar Degas in his sculpture "Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer with real ribbon and tulle because she uses unique materials to create her works or art. Her art also relates to Chi Rho and the Catacombs because of her controversial subject matter about religion. She was influenced by her culture and where she grew up, and by looking at other artist who had tackled the subject of religion before. Yet she is unlike anyone we have learned about because no only is she talking about cultures and religions, but she is mixing them together. She is also a woman, who we haven't seen yet. I chose this artist because I liked her artwork because it reminded me of a collage. I also like how she is a woman artist. Her art, although it isn't collage, reminds me of a collage with all of the layers, which will make me want to create more complex art.



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<span style="color: #783b3b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">"Mine are definitely not utilitarian objects. But I learn from them. I learn from that which is vernacular. I love things that I use- like the tarika- which is the washboard- or bowls, wooden spoons, big pots. They’re all very primitive, very crude . . ." =<span style="color: #783b3b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ursula Von Rydingsvard =

<span style="color: #783b3b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ursula Von Rydingscard was born in Germany and graduated with a high degree in art. Ursula's childhood consisted of Nazi slave-labor camps and her huge sculpture reflect her feelings. She takes her "sketches" from the natural landscape and household products and her end product usually turns out to be somewhere between manmade and nature. She builds huge sculpture out of natural materials like wood, among other things and her sculptures usually come out to be abstract. She uses both sharp and soft lines, some sculptures being made up of harsh cuts, only to form a shape with soft lines. Her technique is anywhere from a woodcutter, to a sculpture, to a designer. Her use of raw materials such as wood requires skill set in woodworking, and yet she is very artistic and sculptural in the way she designs the space. Her work is extremely 21st century because there isn't anything really like this out there. We have seen some of the primitive sculptures back in the pre-stone age times, but that was because of the lack of modern tools, her sculptures are done with purpose and meaning. So while her are somewhat resembles some of the privative art we have seen, her art has meaning for each cut and shape. Although we don't know the artist, her art is very much like some of the art we saw in the ancient world, pre-stone age. In her primitive style and use of the media, Ursula work is very similar to the Pieta because of the rough wooden sculpture, also like the over-realistic kind of gross looking sculpture of Marry. I chose this artist because I liked the natural materials and the texture in each sculpture. I also was surprised for how big the sculptures were and how they draw you in to look at them further, whereas I don't usually like abstract sculptures. Her art will definably inspire my collage because at the moment I'm feeling very dull and flat. Also I'm having a hard time using natural substances and making them look finished and professional and not messy.

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