ReMix : MidTerm

Screen Printing

The screen printing process was a very exciting project that I enjoyed very much. I finished with a feeling of accomplishment and knowledge of something I once knew nothing about. It was nerve wrecking at first not knowing if it would come out right or if it was processed right but in the end it came out perfectly. After printing my image once I even did some risk taking and experimented by printing the same image a second time on the same shirt almost to create a sort of shadow effect. The only thing I would have changed it making the first image the lighter color and the shadow image the darker color so it would have come out more clearer. But overall I enjoyed the process and can't wait to comlpete my next shirt.

Artist Statement

Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. She was widely know for her combination of Realism, Symbolism, Surrealism shown in her works of art. She grew up during the Mexican Revolution which effected her life greatly. I chose Frida for my project because of her courage. Frida went threw many trials and tribulations throughout her life. The Mexican Revolution just being one of them. Kahlo contracted polio at age six, and in 1922 when enrolled in school where she was one of few girls had joined a gang where she witnessed a great deal of violence. In September of 1926, Kahlo was riding in a bus when the vehicle collided with a trolley car. She suffered serious injuries in the accident, including a broken spinal column, a brokencollarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, a crushed and dislocated right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. An iron handrail impaled her abdomen, piercing her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive ability. Though she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life. Every move she made was a painful one. Even when she finally fell in love with the famous artist Diego Rivera, there marriage was a stormy one. But she continued to paint, poring out her soul and feelings onto the canvas. She was a very courageous and beautiful souled women who I will always admire.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh . He began as a commercial illustrator and blossomed into and amazing artist. In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. In July of 1968 the pop artist was shot two to three times into his chest by a woman named Valerie Solanis. Andy was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death. Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987 from complications after a gall bladder operation. More than 2000 people attended the memorial mass at St.Patrick's Cathedral. The pop art icon Warhol was also a religious man - a little known fact.

Assignment # 5: Themes in Art

In the first painting, "Gian Federico Madruzzo", by Giovanni Battista Moroni, I believe show the theme of Looking outward: The Here and Now. The man is portrayed as if he has just gotten ready for his day or a night on the town. No one really knows where he is going but we know it is a painting portrayed in the time it was taken. We as the viewers are looking outward at him at his time which was the here and now.


For the second painting, "Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary, and Two Geographers", by Sebastiano del Piombo, it is more under the theme of politics and social order. It is the Cardinal, his secretary and two geographers. The Cardinal can been seen as both politics and worship because in Rome they are the ones who run the politics and churches. Popes, Cardinals, etc. all have some sort of politics to them. In this painting it even looks as if they could be discussing some kind of social order and the Cardinal almost looks bored with what they have to say. The Cardinal is showing power with his disintrested look in what those around him are saying.