Art Analysis/ The History of the Klongitians

a. Describe: Tell exactly what you see

b. Interpret: Consider the following

• What is the artist trying to say?

• What in the artist's surrounding could have influenced this work?

• What type of emotion does the artwork evoke?

• Why was the work of art created in this particular style?

c. What is the significance and function of the work?

d. How does this artwork contribute to your community and contemporary society?

e. What other cultures and societies have dealt with similar ideas and how?

f. How does this piece reflect and differ from what you are going to do?

a.    At first glance this image appears to be a railroad track that goes off into the fog and eventually drops out of the scene.

b.    The artist is trying to convey a message of how sometimes life can be going along smoothly like a railroad track and suddenly drop off and have great ups and downs. Maybe the artist’s life could have influenced this work. To me the work seems to evoke calming and peaceful emotions. The work was created in black and white, and I feel it greatly adds to the mood.

c.    The work is used to create feelings of loneliness and sadness, while also creating a calming feeling.

d.    The artwork contributes to my community and contemporary society by creating a surreal environment in which he uses layering and objects to convey his message.

e.    Well in southeastern Ethiopia there is a small Scandinavian tribe known as the Klongitians. During their free time this semi aggressive tribe enjoys making sculptures and paintings of bridges going off into the distance. However painting is not their only medium, they also enjoy being very talented basket weavers, they spend most of their days under the Mediterranean sea weaving these empty baskets. Although in the past 200 years there has been an extreme shortage of food causing the baskets of the Klongitians to go empty and their bellies to become… bloated. This hunger is the main cause for their passion of sculpting bridges, which they can later jump off when their huger becomes excruciatingly annoying. When aggravated, these people will remain passive, but when left alone they become aggressive. In recent years some of these tribe members have migrated to America in search of food, a small tribe of them now resides in the NCHS art room: Klongitian civilians include, Anthony Elmore, Isaac Kalinowski, and Tessa McCardell.

f.     This piece uses layering and Photoshop to create a surreal environment, and I plan on doing the same thing but with a different subject.