Kara Walker: A controversial Artist
Introduction
Kara Walker is an African-American artist who explores the identity of the persons taking into account the issues of gender and sexuality and racial stereotypes. Her work is set in the American Civil prewar period and represents scenes of black slaves. Her work contain humor and also is considered controversial. The silhouettes are drawn from a cartoonish and exaggerated way for us to clearly differentiate the races, this silhouettes, which represent life-size human figures, which are in black colors mainly in reference to skin color. Walker shows us these scenes to reflect on the creation of narratives racist, nationalist or any other. She confesses that, she has lived racist or sexist experiences…show more content… She was raised by a father who worked as a painter, Walker knew by age 3 that she wanted to become an artist.
“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara Walker.
At a young age, Walker moved with her family to Atlanta, Georgia, where she would spend the rest of her childhood and later attend the Atlanta College of Art. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the school in 1991. Three years later, in 1994, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, located in Providence.
8. Artwork Analysis
In late spring of 2014, Creative Time presented the first large-scale public project by Kara Walker, one of the most important artists of our era. Sited in the sprawling industrial relics of Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar Factory, Walker’s physically and conceptually expansive installation a massive, sugar-coated sphinxlike woman responded to the building and its…show more content… Personal Thoughts
The style of Kara Walker is magnetic, I personally believe that in her artwork her primary topic is the race. Ms. Walker finds a chaos of contradictory ideas and emotions. She is single-minded in seeing racism as a reality and she expressed in her drawings, in her work she plays in the present and the past. For her the old dualities reliable - white against black, strong or weak, victim against predators - are volatile and changing. And she uses her art, using ridicule, humiliation playing with the feelings that their work is surprisingly touching.
10. Conclusion
Kara Walker is a successful artist, has had a lot of criticism not only from the press, but also the African American people think their job is to mock the grotesque and daring, she has received many critics even by marriage contradictorily with white man. The media thinks she wants to project to their jobs a negative image of white, and a positive image of blacks. But I do not appreciate is that all your work is, in a sense, a way of thinking aloud, but the thought is more controlled than it seems. She is a very open artist, and Kara Walker objective, although for some always draws the same issues, same resolution, same colors she no longer news, it seems that the public is addicted to her claim and criticize their work but neither can live without