Silhouettes

We are going to do something a little different- you will be coming out of you comfort zone of using paint on paper.  Let's take a look at a famous artist and see how we can replicate what she has down within out school.  This will be a group project.

KARA WALKER

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969) is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power, repression, history, race and sexuality.

Walker began creating pieces in order to tell a story or make a statement rather than achieve beauty or perfection. "I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things—genre paintings, historical paintings—the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society," 

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