AADS/ENGL 3328.01
For my creative post I decided to make a painting inspired from an MFA art exhibit featured earlier this year by Basquiat, a black street artist, combined with my interpretation of Indigo’s character in Cypress, Sassafrass, and Indigo. Basquiat was a part of the “neo-expressionism movement” and created art in the 80s in Manhattan. His…
Throughout the autobiography Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Jacobs describes her experiences with the “poisonous fangs” of slavery from her conscious awaral of enslavement at age six, stripping her from the comforts of childhood, to the sexual abuses she was a continuous victim of, all…
In the novel Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, Ntazake Shange uses magic as a means of empowerment that in turn challenges societal expectations in the youngest character, Indigo’s, coming of age. Throughout the course of the book whenever Indigo displays an action or trait that would typically be considered “crazy” or “unusual,” the phrase “the south…
This is an oil painting of the biblical story on fatherly forgiveness known as The Prodigal Son. It hangs in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. The depiction of light through a technique known as “chiaroscuro” in this piece is used to emphasize important aspects of the story beyond words. The father and son are…
Promising Young Woman is a film about a woman in her thirties who spends her weekends going out to bars, alone, acting as though she is black-out drunk. In this state, she gets many men to bring her home. She waits for them to take advantage of her, and at that moment she teaches them…