In Class Project: I realized something seemed a bit off, so I erased the little bit I had and restarted with trying to get the paper the correct size and drawing the gridlines.
At Home Project: I took a piece of paper home and began gridding it out. My idea is finalized at least.
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Art, whether it be in poster form, or in the form of physical objects, is essential to any protest or movement. With an icon, poster, or some sort of symbol, a protest is much more likely to be remembered in the future, and will have a greater impact. As shown by the giant, inflatable cobblestones used in a 2012 protest in Barcelona (Elicabe 2), protest art makes the protest memorable, as well as serving a function within the protest itself. However, protest art comes in numerous forms, and a question arises about what form of protest art is most effective. Do posters such as the ones the Guerrilla Girls create influence people more, or do giant inflatable cobblestones such as the ones in the Barcelona protest?
If someone sees giant, inflatable cobblestones in the middle of the street, it's pretty hard to ignore. Someone looking at a large piece of art such as the cobblestone would no doubt take notice of the protest. However, there is no guarantee that said person would decide to look further into the protest and research their goals and aims. Art like the cobblestones and Andy Dao and Ivan Cash’s “Occupy George” dollar bills during the Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011 (Elicabe 2) help bring awareness and publicity to an issue, but they might not necessarily inform people about the protest. Giant cobblestones don't always have words and facts on them. This, however, is where posters come into question. The Guerrilla Girls are an organization which puts out posters and infographics, and has done so since 1985. Their works are meant to be both visually interesting and provocative as well as informative, such as their "Horror on the National Mall" mock-magazine cover (Claremont 3). It is still protest art, and while it might not be as large and initially attention-grabbing as large objects, posters help inform people about the protest more than most objects do. Due to this, it is difficult to say whether objects or posters are overall more effective, but they each serve different roles in making a protest known. Both articles shared information about protest art, and it was good to see the two perspectives on objects such as the cobblestones and Zapatista dolls from Mexico (Elicabe 3), and the posters the Guerrilla girls create. Both posters and objects serve crucial roles in raising awareness and informing the public. In order to have a successful protest, it is necessary to have one unifying symbol or force, ads well as making sure everybody knows the facts and information behind the protest. And these two parts, the objects and the posters, don't conflict with each other at all. The Guerrilla Girls even said that it is important to avoid "preaching to the converted" (Claremont 7), and objects help make the protest known to people other than that. Without these two essential parts of protests, no protest would ever be successful and memorable. I decided who I was going to draw next, then began sketching out the basic outlines. I was not in school on Monday, so this week I did not get a whole lot done.
This week, I finished my piece. I did all the shading in charcoal, which is shown in the pictures above. After that, I smeared it to finish it.
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AuthorA senior at Maggie Walker taking Art IV Archives
May 2018
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