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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Saying Goodbye To Grandma, Courtney A. Brown
Behold, Kaitlyn Mccray Burnett
Om!, Aparajita Dutta
Becoming God, Megan Barrios
The Fields Where We Grew Up, Emilee G. French
The Fields Where We Grew Up, Emilee G. French
TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present
This watercolor painting (jpg.) is about childhood's end and love's beginning. The Fields Where We Grew Up is a painting about bringing the one you love to the place that begat you. It is a beautiful, circular life that we live in.
I Love You Three-Fifths, Brittany B. Tucker
I Love You Three-Fifths, Brittany B. Tucker
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Disparities in representation are gaps that can be filled. They’re also abundances that can be destroyed or dispersed. Misrepresentation is another useful tactic. In “I Love You Three-Fifths” I’m choosing to misrepresent the white body by caricaturing and simplifying it in order to address the relationship between American blackness and whiteness through portraiture. This “dis-representation” allows me to paint intimacy and interaction without committing to the Western ritual of rendering white bodies. Instantly, by rendering myself realistically, I become the primary subject. I am real while the white man is the joke of the painting. It’s a reversal of the …