Day of the Dude - Exhibition Review
On the first floor of the Church of Fine Arts building there
was the Day of the Dude art show. There were multiple artists that collaborated
on this exhibition. All of the pieces are themed day of the dead. Each artwork
has some sort of skull on it. The pieces are a combination of sculpture and
paintings. The biggest piece that stood out to me was a quite large painting by
Michael Sarich. I watched him create this piece in my painting class. He used a
stencil to put his signature skull on his brightly colored background. It
seemed like he was playing with the innocent girl devil in the background and
the giant skull meaning death.
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other piece that stood out to me was the twelve baby skulls hanging on the
wall. There were six on top and six on bottom. They were hung in perfect
alignment. Each skull was slightly different. It’s unusual that you see baby
skulls because adult sugar skulls are so popular. Each one has some sort of
heart etched into the heads and some have an inverted cross. Inverted crosses used
to be known for Christianity but lately it has taken on the meaning of
anti-Christianity. I am not sure what the artist was trying to get across with
these. There were also boxes attached to the walls, which almost looked like a
shrine to the dead. There were many pictures hanging from the work and little
religious symbols on the top of the boxes. The colors were very bright and
looked like a celebration to the dead.The Yes Men - Artist Talk
The Yes Men are to guys that have become an activist duo
throughout the world. They target social issues in their work. These two men
have a lot of different websites that they have created to look like big
companies websites but they have spoofed them. They started to get recognition
to have interviews and be on television to speak about what they were doing. In
the movie, they impersonated individuals that they disliked in big
corporations. They want to get to the bottom of why the world gives more power to
the market system instead of giving it to something else that could have more
importance. The Yes Men get away with a lot for posing as people that would be
big in the industry. It is so interesting to me that these people that are at
these conventions don’t even really listen to the speaker. They would have been
found out much quicker if people paid more attention to the speeches that these
people are giving. One of the movements that stood out to me was the
Survivaball. People dressed up in this inflatable ball costume to hit
corporations that where threatening the climate. The claimed that it was “a
self-contained living system for surviving disasters caused by global warming.”
This got shut down immediately. They have used these Survivaball outfits in
multiple places that they took action on. I think that the world needs more
people like these Yes Men. Big corporations have control over everything which
isn’t always what the world needs, and in most cases it’s what the world never
needs.
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