Outline

Aysia Brown
12/8/2015
Outline for my Artistt.


Kara Walker was born November 26, 1969 Stockton California. Her father was her influence to become an artist when she was a little girl. Walker is an contemporary artist who looks into race, gender, sexuality, and violence. Walker is the best known artist for exploring the raw information of the difference of the particular work  The style Walker use is collage, drawing, painting, performance, film, video, shadow puppetry, light projections, and  animations . Walker artwork is both beautiful and very disturbing. The silhouettes would tell different stories. Kara Walker artwork takes place the civil war and slavery era, which is the 18th century.  Kara Walker explores the raw information  and expose terrifying and cringing images of the dark side of slavery history. .What's significant about the artist's work is how it can attract and effect the viewers at the same time and displaying a specific time period in a exaggerated distorted way comically.

The first picture by Kara Walker is named "Gone, An Historical Romance of a civil war as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one Negress and her heart. (1994) The title "Gone came from a novel and movie "Gone With The Wind" The silhouettes are lined and position  to tell a story. The second picture is named "Darkytown Rebellion"(2000) Walker would use light projectors and multi-colors for the background for the silhouettes. The viewer's shadow would be able to be part of the work by their own shadows showing on the wall by the light projector. "Darkytown Rebellion" shows a historical illustration of African Americans view in in American Culture. The third is a shadow puppetry a young Negress girl and the titled is called "Testimony" (2000) The fourth is a drawing named "The Daliy Constitution 1878" (2011) It's a disturbing drawing picture that shows the relationships between two different races in the south. The picture would be a very very dark reminder that is publicly expose to everyone that sees the picture. The last artwork is named "Excavated from the black heart of a negress" (2002) This is also a cut-out and it shows two women. This picture is like a sing of what goes on the south. The artwork is showing a baby being ripped out of one of the woman's stomach by other female. This expresses the reality that during the slavery era, babies would be taken from their mothers and be sold to another plantation. 

From MOMA they said about Kara Walker has "transformed the craft , into a new type of epic history painting" and I agree because it express so much of the history of slavery in the 18th century and how Walker is able to make such artwork that is so revealing.