Midterm Project Proposal 10/8 - Jaden Bulatao

Midterm Project Proposal 10/8 - Jaden Bulatao

Midterm Project Proposal

"The Lesson of Falling Leaves" is an artwork that's made by Amy Sherald in 2017. This artwork features a figure in a grayscale tone, in a monochrome background, holding a leaf that is colored. The grayscale invokes a feeling of timelessness and individuality, which is why it's depicted to be invoke the nineteenth-century daguerreotype, which are early African American portraits. Here are some ideas that would be inspired by Amy Sherald's aspects of her art, "The Lesson of Falling Leaves".

• The first idea would take on using colors, similar on how Amy Sherald uses the Gray Scale and Colors. I will use how Amy Sherald uses the grayscale and the color, and it's meaning to make the artwork stand out from a monochrome background. For example, I will make the figure in a Colored monochrome tone, while I use the black and white for the background, to show a different meaning to show how one figure that is colored feels lively, while the others that are in a grayscale feels lifeless.
• The second idea is similar from the first one, but it's much more different. Instead of a person, it would be some buildings of other big businesses where I have the big corporate business buildings be in grayscale to show how lifeless and greedy towards the people are, while I make one building that is in color to show how lively, caring, and helpful the small company could be towards the community. 

Story Responses
"Research by postcolonial, critical race and feminist theorists over the past three decades has posited that the most successful tactics for addressing inequality, while sometimes self-defeating, are always worthwhile."

"The fundamental problem with this biased representation on the part of MoMA is that since its founding, it has functioned, and continues to function as an international icon, as an institution that other modern art museums have looked to as a paradigm of excellence to be mimicked."

Response: What they mean is that they're talking about the unfairness in the art system where they mostly supported white men. According to the article, the graph, points out the bias between the people of color and gender in the Museum of Metropolitan Art (MoMA). It also talks about the problem with the biased representation on how unfair art is represented when the people have so much talent get ignored.

"Have curators today become so arrogant that asking them to include more non-white and/or women artists is an affront to their egos?"

"Statistics on race and gender in exhibitions should be widely disseminated and curatorial malpractice made public."

Response: Both of these quotes talked about how unfair the art world is. Artists are left out and ignored, because of their race, gender, or sexuality. Artists, that were left out, deserves be represented, no matter their gender, race, or sexuality.