Art Excursion

Angel -
b)The picture was outlined in a thick, dark pencil on a dark, shiny carboard material. Newspapers, magazines and differents texts were cut up and added all around the edges of the picture. Lastly all the stickers were added one by one, very tightly packed in the center of the outlined figure in the center of the image. They add a great contaversy through the use of bright and dull colours and space and shape. It helps explain how tightly these things are tied in with the rest of the image.
c)This image uses great contrast and space to relay its message. The stickers in the middle are vright and tightly packed, right in the center of the image, they stand out and really make you focus on them because they seem at first glance to be very important. Outside of the center however, theere are no colours aside from black, grey and white. All the images and texts are spread out widely over blank paper, this helps offer an image of the artists state of mind and the apparent unimoportance of these seperate images.
d)The figure in the middle represents a god of sorts, and of course that means it relates to a particuler religion. The god is made up however of stickers that are completely modern and unrelated, they almost seem to sybolise corruption. If the artist meant it like this then maybe he believes that the religious worshippers are not remaining true to thier culture, they have lost sight of the true meaning of things and only focus on the materialistic matters at hand, things that earn things in return. This is fueled by the images around it, the colours are dull and seem to represent unimportance yet the the images and texts are those og high importance and views of beliefs, "no-smoking" for example. The artist may be trying to convey that he feels that the religion has lost sight of its true meaning and by caring so much about these materialistic symbols it's leaving out the really important beliefs that it stuck up for for so long. Thought the whole image could be seen in an entirely different, more positive manner of, 'just as you love and cherish and keep these things with you all the time so you should do with your cherished religion.'
e)It seems that the artist has through rather a lot in his youth in the terms of dislocation and religious uncertainty. When he finally got settled in this time of turmoil it seems he lived in a world full of life and colour, a world where everybody was in a hurry to get all these things, know everything new, have as much as they could mentally and phsically. By living in this environment and experienceing it so often the artsit would of course develop a particular frame of mind and an interestin view on the impacts of new society and changes on the old religious and social expectations. Maybe he wanted to somehow communicate some of his feelings about this new world and relate to the old one, this image could even be a representation of how much the religion has accepted the changes and how it still lives on but in new ways.