Does Folk Art Belong in a Museum?

Does Folk Art Belong in a Museum?

All of the pieces in a museum should contain not only its beauty but also something that the audience can learn from it such as history and culture. In this sense, it is safe to say folk art belongs in a museum. Folk art is a kind of art that are made by ordinary people on the purpose of every day usage. Even though it is a creation made by an uneducated person it has its own beauty which can distinguished with high art. Also, it would be used in daily life so the audience can learn how life in the past was look like. Therefore, folk art is suitable for a museum.

First of all, folk art has its own special beauty different from fine art has. Most of folk art is created by unskilled people so it has unrefined beauty. One of the good examples is Theora Hamblett’s paintings. Because of her untrained drawing skill, her paintings have child-like feeling which makes them special and unique compare to any other educated artists. Folk art should be exhibited in a museum to give a chance to experience new beauty to the audience.

Second, folk art shows their culture and history to the audience. People made folk art to use it every day so it made able to assume how people lived in the past. For example, people can learn its culture and history from the Gee Bend’s Quilts. From the every single fabric, the audience can learn that what kind of cloth people wore in the past because it is from the cloth that people actually wore such as the worn jeans, the shirts and even the socks. One of the Gee Bend’s Quilts has the pieces of flag for election campaign which can teach the audience what was going on that time. The audience can learn the history and culture from folk art so it should belongs to museum.

Folk art contains the specialized beauty from untrained skills that cannot be found in high art. Not only that, folk art contains the culture and history or one community or country. Those two characteristics are the most important things that an exhibition should have. In conclusion it is true that folk art belongs in a museum.

This is my painting impressed by Theora Hambllet’s paintings and spring at Ole miss. One day I was walking back to the dormitory passing through trees and I saw hundreds of birds were flying to make an arch up to my head. I described it by using Theora’s skill. I think my painting is a folk art. Even though it is not really beautiful it has some beauty which makes me feel bright and happy. Also, it can tell me how spring is like at Ole miss: magnolia and birds. Therefore I think my painting is a folk art.

Folk art

Folk Art

Sohyun.Park (Sso)

Follow the Wikipedia, Folk Art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring trade’s people. In contrast to folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic. In my opinion, folk art reflects traditional thing such as person’s life, history and culture.

In museum, we can see Theora Hamblett’s painting and Gee’s Bend Quilts. In this museum, Theora Hamblett’s theme is “season”, so every four wall represents the four seasons. Theora Hamblett almost always draws lovely children, country scene, religious things and vision. Why she draws like this? Once she was a teacher, so she really likes the kids and she loves walking in the country side. Also she believes Christian religion, so the theme of her painting is like this. Vision is same reason.

Pointillism is her favorite drawing technique. Pointillism is a technique of neo-Impressionist painting using tiny dots of carious pure colors, which become blended in the viewer’s eye. She also layers the paint. For example, the bottom of the canvas she paints the bright yellow colors and layers dark yellow, bright green and dark green one by one. I mean she paints her art from bright color to dark color. She also uses the color of tree such as purple, orange, yellow and green. It sounds weird, but she did.

When we see her painting, we can recognize that everything is flat. As you know, there are no flat things in the world, but she wants to the people’s focus in the middle, not the bottom. For this reason, she also paints the bottom with wide green brush. I think it works.

Gee’s Bend Quilts are also impressed to me. She made some kinds of bed cover and blanket by quilting. Quilting refers to the technique of joining at least two fabric layers by stitches or ties. So she used flower socks, fabric and various kinds of flags. Other words, she made the quilt including everything.

In museum, I really interested to all art works since it was represented the situation at that time such as religions, war and so on. Also I could know about how to draw, what kind of material when artist use and what the background of this art is. The most important things I learn to go to the museum, I can learn these two artists’ life through their art works.

Does folk art belong in a museum?

What is folk art?

First of all, I found out the definition about folk art on the internet.
It said “Folk art is Art originating among the common people of a nation or region and usually reflecting their traditional culture, especially everyday or festive items produced or decorated by unschooled artists”.
Literally, folk art is about folk. The subject could be person, things and their life.

From museum, I saw "Gee bend’s quilts" and "Theora hambett's trees".

I think they belong to 'folk art'.

Gee bend’s quilts

Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, United States of America lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. It is named after Joseph Gee, a planter, and the first white man to settle in the area.
Exhibiting it at the museum brings to light the brilliant, bold and dynamic quilts created by a group of women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend.
I think this is kind of folk art. Because, it presents her life style.
As other folk art, this isn’t made as the art but for the necessity at the first time. That means that they made them because they needed them. They are isolated, so it is hard to buy things they need. That’s why they made quilts by themselves.
According to Gee bend’s quilts, we can imagine the way they lived.
And the another reason that we can call Gee bend’s quilts “folk art”, is that it isn’t just one but all women in that places, making quilts together.
So it could be their tradition. Customs and folk art are related very closely. Customs can be folk art, and folk art can be a custom.

Theora hamblett.

Theora Hamblett was born in Paris, Mississippi in 1893.
Most of Her works are about trees. She loves trees since she was young.
As a child, she loved to draw landscapes and other scenes from nature.
After she moved to Oxford, Mississippi in 1930, she enrolled in an art class at Ole Miss in 1950. This class, taught at night, was her first art training.
Since her house was located in the countryside, In front of her house in Oxford, she could find lots of trees easily. From impression from trees, she starts to draw trees.
Her pictures presented her region where she lived, usually reflecting her traditional culture. Also her pictures present landscapes and other scenes from nature.
That’s why we can call her works folk art.
“Folk art” get inspiration from our lives; location, surrounding.
She gets inspiration from her home’s surrounding. She likes trees and she draws trees because there are lots trees near her.
And she has her own painting style; pointillism and bright colors.
Those things represent that her picture is different from others.. So we can distinguish her pictures and the others from her own technique very easily.

In conclusion, I think both of them in the museum belong to folk art.
They represent their life style, their reign in their works.
We can find many folk arts not only in the museum, but also around our lives.
And I think everyone can be folk artist. Because it doesn’t need not only exact subject but also, trained skills. That doesn’t mean that folk art can’t be named “art”. I think folk art is the most meaningful arts in the worlds.
Because, from folk art, we can learn not only, art, but also, the style of the authors.
And it doesn’t have difficult technique, so we can understand very well even though we are not artist.

From my picture, there are many dots on the trees. It is called “pointillism”.
And there are bright colors. Those techniques are from Theora hamblett.
My picture represent that ‘it is spring ‘. In Olemiss, we can see lots of flowers from the trees. It is very beautiful. Now I can catch that why Theora hamblett loves trees and draws trees. During working on my picture, I was so excited because colors are so beautiful. And it makes me imagine real spring. Even though, I am not good at art, various colors make my picture as masterpiece.

Folk Art is an artistic painting,sculptures that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings.It is usually produced by people without formal training.

Museum on the other hand is a building in which interesting and valuable things such as painting and sculptures,scientific or historical objects are collected and shown to the public.

Looking at the two definitions above,we can see that Folk Art and Museum are interwoven together.An artistic painting that are created to be beautiful (Folk Art) being kept in a place where valuable things such as painting (Museum) are collected and shown to the public.

In addition to the interwoven structure of Folk Art and Museum, Folk Art in a museum enables people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment; it’s also a form of exhibition of ideas, beliefs, vision, or life. We learn from the past by looking at the artistic work done by people at the times as seen in Theora Hamblet and Gee Bends Quilt making.

Through museum, I was able to learn a lot from Theora Hamblet work, her work focuses on country side, religions and visions, I learn what her growing up days was like, what her house looks like (Hamblet hills) and the paintings of over the hill is home. Gee Bends quitters combine materials to form bold, abstract composition that reveals a genius for color and geometry. One look at Gee Bends gives one a sense of their originality and graphic impact. Gee Bends Quilt serves as an inspiration to other quilt makers around the world.

I don’t consider my piece of work as a Folk Art base on two reasons (1) Folk Art are beautifully made and attract readers to itself, Folk Art work make head turns to its direction because of its simplicity and the attractive power it has for example Theora Hamblet work of ‘Childrens game,our backyard, fishing from a boat’ to mention but few.This attractive power is what my own piece of work lack and that is why I believe it is not a Folk Art.(2) Folk Art work are not an imitation of ideas which my own work is but rather gotten through inspiration,vision,or what is happening around them at the time ‘snow scene with boys’ a work from Theora Hamblet is an example

Ideas on Folk Art before and after

Since we were little we were taught that works of art ere those statues and paintings that were kept in a museum. We were told that famous people created those pieces of art and that their prize was uncountable, but what if they were all wrong?What if other items sucha s quilts or ordinary people´s paintings could be considered art too?

At first we talked about what folk art meant, and I had never thought of little toys such as the Russian dolls to be art. Anything other than a painting or a sculpture wasnt in my definition of art. But yet again our definition of art is not as broad as it should be to include those little creations like folk art, which might not be as spectacular as a Piccasso, but it might have more meaning for a person or group of people.

When we got Theora Hamblett´s reading assigment, and after reading it, I still wasn´t convinced that her paintings could be considered art, because if what a woman does in her free time with more or less okay skills is considered art, the paintings I do at home should also be considered art, right?I mean, she followed the pointillism pattern in all her pictured but still.

Then we went to the museum and saw different types of folk arts, not just Theora´s paintings only. We also saw the Gee Bend´s quilts, who are a little isolated town in Alabam

a with almost no resources. The women in town would get together and create quilts from what they had. It could be an old shirt or a pair of jeans. So, what if my idea of art was a little to specific?Maybe art starts to be considered art when it defines a culture or it becomes a big part of it. Maybe art doesn´t have to be considered art for all of us. Maybe being able to create something like a quilt from almost nothing is the real piece of art!

All in all folk arts such as Theora´s paintings and the Gee Bend´s quilts are types of art, and we are the ones that have to decide if they are good or not. ou don´t have to like them to be honest and admit that they deserve to be in a museum as much as those Ancient Roman vases, or that Piccasso´s painting. Part of our town´s history or traditions can end up becoming art in years from now

so it´s better not to prejudge anything.

In relation with this blog I decided to create a little painting. What we see in it is the fall leaves barely covering the sun. I know I´m not good enough to be considered an artist, and it´s just for fun, althought I must admit that painting is a really good anti-stress therapy.

Does folk art belong in a museum?

To answer the question “Does Folk Art belong in a museum?” I thought about the standard of art first. What points defines some objects as an art? If pictures or objects have creativity and beauty, then it could be defined as an art. Besides, art reminds interest and impression from many people from children to senior citizens. With these points both Gee Bend’s Quilts and Theora Hamblett’s paintings are worth to be exhibited in a museum so that many people could see their works.

Theora Hamblett’s works attracted my interest when I looked her painting closely because I got impression about her painting technique which is using “pointlism”. She used purple, yellow, orange, and green for the leaves. The harmony of colors that she used in her trees is beautiful and unique. I could find lots of trees in her paintings because tree was the easiest thing to draw when she painted her picture. Also Gee Bend’s Quilts were creative and special because of the fabric patterns that he used in his works. These Quilts are made from generation to generation. They are still making their quilts nowadays. They used cheap materials like corduroy when they were quilting. Even though they put same fabrics in different part of the quilt, these fabrics mingled well together. Matches of each different fabric patterns are charming and well stitched. Therefore their works definitely correspond with the standard of art.

I think Folk art also has value to hang in the art gallery. Because Folk Art represents the environment, history, people, and custom of artist’s time well and from Folk Art we can suppose artist’s life style easily. In case of Korea, many folk arts are highly praised because of their meaning and artist’s sophisticated working skills. Korean Folk art express well the common people’s daily life with humor. One of the most famous folk art in Korea is Kim hong do’s “Seo-dang”. In this art, you can feel liveliness in character’s faces. This picture shows feelings of characters and atmosphere of painting clearly.

I drew painting with Theora Hamblett’s painting skill. I drew trees using technique “pointlism” and a child riding a bicycle. To my thinking my painting is not an art at all. To be considered as an art, there’ll be some kind of meaningful sense and unique working skills of art. My painting is nothing more than imitation of Theora Hamblett’s painting. Imitating somebody’s art or skill can never called as an art.

LOVE TRDITIONS, FORK ART

LOVE TRDITIONS, FORK ART

Nari. Shin(Riaa)

In all of country and culture, they have many of proper custom and they want to remember and preserve that customs. They think it is the origin of them and if it customs not being, they can’t born in this world. For this reasons, customs are always protected by people. People used many of method to protect their customs however the famous way is ‘ART’. People used to the art, such as pictures, dolls and something like that, to let their descendants know their life and to remember their ancestor’s life. Above all means what is the ‘Folk Art’.

Each country’s the work of folk art is different but its meaning is almost same. In other words, all artists’ art techniques are different from each other, but they all want to describe something which is they really love. Folk artists want to represent their life such as eating, clothing and thinking. In the picture which is drawn by Theora Hamblett who is a painter from Oxford, Mississippi contained her life including her family, animal and children. When I saw her painting, I can guess she really love her family, her place which was located in country side and her whole life. She used pointillism on her canvas with vivid colors and layer color dots. I think her painting looks so actual and lively since she uses those techniques. It was enough to represent her thinking on the canvas.

On the other hands, Pecolia Warner’s art work is little different from Theora Hamblett. She was a quilt maker from Yazoo City, Mississippi. She made many quilt with some kind of texture like corduroy. According the reading material, she always thought about religion when she worked on her quilt. Actually, I can find about her belief through the meaning of texture pieces’ color from her art work which is in the museum. Moreover, she wanted to represent to her childhood through her quilts. So she used her old clothes that she wore during her childhood.

In these two artists’ cases, we can guess their life and thinking trough their art works and that is the most important object in folk art. Their art works include all about them. Besides, Pecolia warnen did her art work on World War Ⅱ, so her quilts have some symbolic pieces and explain about the situations at that time. For this reasons, ‘Folk Art’ is belong to art museum. As those art works were exhibited, more people can see that and think about their ancestor. As the Korean proverb goes, reviewing the old and learning the new is a good attitude. Old is not always true but it give some good effects to us. It is exactly.

Art produced in a traditional fashion by peasants, seamen, country artisans, or tradespeople with no formal training, or by members of a social or ethnic group that has preserved its traditional culture. It is predominantly functional, typically produced by hand for use by the maker or by a small group or community. Paintings are usually incorporated as decorative features on clock faces, chests, chairs, and interior and exterior walls. Sculptural objects in wood, stone, and metal include toys, spoons, candlesticks, and religious items.

Folk Art is an artistic painting, sculptures that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings. We learn the ideas of people in the past through the collections of their jobs in the museum.it is predominantly functional, typically produced by hand for use by maker or by small group or community.

Having known what folk art is, we need to know why it belongs to the museum. Folk art belongs to the museum because it enables people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment; it’s also a form of exhibition of ideas, beliefs, vision, or life. We learn from the past by looking at the artistic work done by people at the times as seen in Theora Hamblet and Gee Bends Quilt making.

Through museum, I was able to learn a lot from Theora Hamblet work, her work focuses on country side, religions and visions, I learn what her growing up days was like, what her house looks like (Hamblet hills) and the paintings of over the hill is home.Gee Bends quitters combine materials to form bold, abstract composition that reveals a genius for color and geometry.One look at Gee Bends gives one a sense of their originality and graphic impact.Gee Bends Quilt serves as an inspiration to other quilt makers around the world.

Folk art has to create a substantial amount of activity in the viewer's mind or heart. Good art can be a matter of good concept or excellent skills in execution, but I think great art touches the mind, heart or soul of the viewer.”A painting should evoke a thought, a memory or idea to the viewer. something you just cannot take your eyes off of. Something that you see that strikes your soul to the very depths, that opens your eyes and your mind to the beauty of it.”

I believe that folk art belongs to the museum.
There are 3 points.

First of all, it’s beautiful.
The paintings are very beautiful. There is no doubt that the author had done a good job although she were not trained.
The most prominent characteristic of Theora Hamblet’s painting is full of colorful trees. It’s impressed me because I have never seen a beautiful tree like that.In one of her picture, she used only one color-yellow. I love it most because it’s simple, when I stare at it, it makes me feel really comfortable.




Second, they are creative.


Theora Hamblet crated a special painting skill, one is mix any color with white before paint, the other is to use double layers painting skill to paint leaves, usually yellow is the first layer. These two skill had made her trees look different, more brighter and colorful that other one did. Which impressed me significantly.










In those days, the black people were poor, so they collected every scraps they could find. Then they sew them together to make a something else, usually quilts. But they are not simply sewed them up, they put different color and shape in certain orders to crate special patterns. In the museum, there are many patterns, some looks like a maze, some looks like fruit, some looks like a mosaic, and some of them are chaos but beautiful. Also, they will use different materials in different themes. As a result, it became a special and sophisticated art piece that we can not only see it, but also touch it.






Finally, it’s full of history

From the paintings, we can totally figure out what Theora Hamblet’s life was, where she grow, what she like and what she care about. Most of her paintings are trees, we can easily tell that she has a affection of trees, she was so fascinating about the nature. She wanted to record everything she saw.
In one of the quilts, which made of hundreds of pieces, it contains lots of information about the society when it was made. There are some pieces about the space exploration, women’s dress, cloth with popular patterns, and sheets. From those tings, we could figure out that what’s the big event on that time, what color and material women like, what style is popular and so on.

To sum up, I think folk art belongs to the museum.

What could be considered as an art?

Let’s say you drew a painting. No matter how it is good or bad, no one could deny the fact that this is a picture. Do you think it can fall into the category of art, or only the things that are created by an artist can be arts? In my opinion, it is not that important who created it. What really matters is whether it has something that is worth being considered as an art or not.

Nowadays the term art is largely used in two different ways. First, it is used to refer to general things that are created to represent beauty or the activities to make them. Secondly, it could be used only to refer to the things that show artists’ high quality of techniques or skills, which is especially called the fine art. Sometimes people get confused about the concept of art because of this. I think among two the second one is the true meaning of the word art.

Of course, everyone has a desire to seek beauty or try to create beautiful things to some extent. It means everyone has a potential to make things that can be considered artistic, so I can create an art and so can you. The thing is, however, totally different. Every picture cannot be an art, because everything does not have something artistic. Only the most beautiful or the highest level of things can considered as arts. Or, the art itself would be meaningless in the end.

What I want to say is, regardless of the creator of an art, something extraordinary can be an art and it also means that it is worth being exhibited in the museum. Therefore, even though folk arts came from the things that were originally used for practical purpose, they can be arts if they have something extraordinarily beautiful. Lots of things that are called folk arts are being exhibited now in the museum all over the world, which I think could support this.


This is the picture that I drew during the last class. I wanted to describe a tree that blossoms in spring, so I used warm colors to express it and imitated the way Theora Hamblett drew her pictures. I think, however, it could not be an art, because it is not that artistic. As I mentioned above, only artistic things can be arts, so mine never could be an art.

Does folk art belong in a museum?

What is folk art?


First of all, I find out the definition about folk art at the internet.
It said “Folk art is Art originating among the common people of a nation or region and usually reflecting their traditional culture, especially everyday or festive items produced or decorated by unschooled artists”.
Literally, it is about folk. The subject could be person, things and their life.


From museum, I saw "Gee bend’s quilts" and "Theora hamblett's trees".
I think they belong to 'folk art'.


Gee bend’s quilts


Gee's Bend, also known as Boykin, is a very poor tenant community in Alabama, United States of America lying at the edge of the Black Belt in Wilcox County, about thirty miles southwest of Selma. It is named after Joseph Gee, a planter, and the first white man to settle in the area.
Exhibit in the museum brings to light the brilliant, bold and dynamic quilts created by a group of women who live in the isolated, African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend.
I think this is kind of folk art. Because, it presents her life style.
As other folk art, this isn’t made for art but for necessity at the first time. That means that they made it because they have to live with that. They are isolated, so it is hard to buy things they need. That’s why they made their necessity by themselves.
According to Gee bend’s quilts, we can imagine their lives.
And the another reason that we can call Gee bend’s quilts as “folk art” is that it isn’t just one but all woman in that places, making quilts together.
So it could be their customs. Customs and the folk art are related very closely. Customs can be folk art, and folk art can be customs.


Theora hamblett.


Theora Hamblett was born in Paris, Mississippi in 1893.
Most of Her works are about trees. She loves trees since she was young.
As a child, she loved to draw landscapes and other scenes from nature.
After she moves to Oxford, Mississippi in 1930, she enrolled in an art class at Ole Miss in 1950. This class, taught at night, was her first training in art.
Since her house was located at countryside, In front of her house in oxford, she can find lots of trees easily. From impression from trees, she starts to draw trees.
Her pictures present her region where she lives and usually reflecting her traditional culture. Also her pictures present landscapes and other scenes from nature.
That’s why we can call her works as folk art.
“Folk art” get inspiration from our lives; location, surrounding.
She gets inspiration from her surrounding and the location of her house. She likes trees and she draws trees because there are lots trees near her.
And she has her own style of painting; pointillism and bright colors.
Those things represent that her picture is different from others.. So we can distinguish her pictures and the others from her own technique very easily.



In conclusion, I think both of them in the museum are belong to folk art.
They represent their life style, their reign in their works.
We can find many folk arts not only in the museum, but also around our lives.
And I think everyone can be folk artist. Because it doesn’t need not only exact subject but also, trained skills. That doesn’t mean that folk art have no entitlement of naming “art”. I think folk art is the most meaningful arts in the worlds.
Because, from folk art, we can learn not only, art, but also, their life style.
And it doesn’t have difficult technique, so we can understand very well even though we are not artist.



From my picture, there are many dots on the trees. It is called “pointillism”.
And there are bright colors. Those techniques are from Theora hamblett.
My picture represent that ‘it is spring ‘. In olemiss, we can see lots of flowers from the trees. It is very beautiful. Now I can catch that why Theora hamblett loves trees and draws trees. During working on my picture, I was so excited because colors are so beautiful. And it makes me imagine real spring. Even though, I am not good at art, various colors make my picture as masterpiece.

Does Folk Art belong in a museum?

Does Folk Art belong in a museum? In my opinion, I think that they definitely belong in a museum. The main reason why I think so is because museum is a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public. And Folk Art is rooted in traditions that come from cmmunity, culture and history. Therefore, they are cultural and historical masterpieces which is deserved to be shown in the museum.

Before I wrote this draft, I tried to understand more specific definition of Folk Art. I searched on the internet about "What is folk art?" and get the basic definition listed below.

"Art originating among the common people of a nation or region and usually reflecting their traditional culture, especially everyday or festive items produced or decorated by unschooled artists."

Folk artists generally do not attend art school to learn their skills, they are highly skilled artists even some people may not think they are professional . They get inspiration from their living environment, tribal, or religious. They use materials which are available most of the time, including cloth, wood, paper, metal and so on. If they are unable to find traditional materials, it's always easy to find something new to substitute. After I saw some examples exhibited in the museum, I found it is not just a type of art; it 's the record to help us memorize the impressive and precious scene or thing in our memory. Looking through those folk arts in the world, we can understand their culture, custom and life at some specific time when those folk arts are made.

The main advantage from the folk art is that it doesn't have any limit or need to use some certain painting technique. Folk artists can decide what favorite colors they'd like to use. What shapes they want to create or what story they'd like to share from their works. It gives them freedom to create their imagination and convey their feeling or thought they catch from ther life.

Among those examples, I really like those paintings painted by Theora Hamblet. The colors she used from her painting are so beautiful and perfectly match with the scenes she draw. I like how she used the pointlism to build up those trees in her paintings. Some colors she used for leaves are unique and creative, Like purple, yellow and orange. To my astonishment, these colors made the whole painting even more vivid and active than the colors we usually see from the real tree. Though her painting, I can tell that she has deep emotion and affection to her home and all the sceneries around her. Most of the colors she used are bright and soft so every painting looks very harmony and peace like she was telling a lot of good stories or good memories related to her daily life. Besides, I also impressed by Gee's Bend Quilts. The purpose for creating this type of art is not just for entertainment or for spending spare time, they do feel happy and satisfied when they finished their creations. They also made good use of waste materials that may be disposed of because of useless. They gave those materials a new life and make them to became useful and delicate again. I like the feeling that they work as a group in order to accomplish their works together, it makes the art more valuable and touching.

When I finished the painting, I do consider my own project a work of art. I use the skill pointillism and bright colors Theora Hamblet like to use to create my tree. But it's also a part of landscapes which I pictured in the campus. Though my imagination, I create a place which is isolated in the ocean but a refugee to escape from the pressure and complicated reality temporarily in order to relax and regain the energy. It's a small world only exists in that little girl's mind in my painting. Although it's not professional and totally not perfect compared with real art we saw from the museum, I think once you create it, it can be a type of art. For me, education is not important and necessary for creating art. As long as you have passion and creation, everyone can be an artist if they want to.

my mosaic

My mosaic was inspired by one of the scene from the movie, “Moulin Rouge”. I wanted to describe the scene when the courtesan appeared on the stage in the magenta spotlight and the audience in black gave her big hand. So, I created a line at the bottom with pure black color and a heart shape with magenta. The background will be filled with blue same as the movie.

The pure black represented the audience in tuxedo who wanted the courtesan for their own entertainment. I used different magenta colors: red-magenta, pinkish magenta, and purple-magenta for a heart shape in the middle. However, these colors were not happy bright. All of the three different magenta colors are cold and sad, because I wanted to explain her wounded heart. She might want a real love but most of the guys just wanted her beautiful appearance not her inside beauty. That’s why I wanted to use cold magenta color group rather than romantic red or delicate pink. I used blue color group for the background. The group was consisted of dark, heavy, cold and sad ocean blue colors, because it represented her fear and sadness toward the audience and her broken heart.

I took two pictures inspired by the colors that I used in my mosaic.



This is the picture of beads in different colors. Those colors are mostly used in my mosaic. Dark blue and navy blue can be found from the background of my mosaic and purple-like-magenta and little dark pinkish magenta can be found from the heart shape in my mosaic.




This is the second picture. I took a picture of magnolia because of its color. It is little brighter and more pinkish magenta but it has kind of coldness in it because it’s not the pastel tone color which is warm, cute, and soft.

Moulin rouge

My caption centered on the stage of the film, the singers, the dancers, the beautifully decorated stage as well as the colors used. The colors used to decorate the stage are many ranges from blue, red ,green, purple, lemon, yellow and black but the 3 most used we be talk about here.

At the beginning of the film, I saw the dancers in different color dresses, adding to the beauty of the stage reminding me of the colors of rainbow which consist of red, orange , yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet which I term to mean that the beginning was rosy and fine. The dominant color of the stage at the beginning was red and the audience are in black suit which means that the parent are watching in sadness.

The meaning I can give to this can be liken to a child who just came into the world, he would be received with joy and happiness(as shown in the many color of the background) he will depends on the parents for all the basic things in life, he wouldn’t have to do anything, his responsibility falls on the parent but as he grow to a man and have to fend for himself, he faces many obstacles, many problems(dominant red of the background means sadness) nobody to foot his bill but him, all the affections he received when he was young is no longer there, he will have to look after himself, his family and the ageing parent.

Immediately the lead singer step on stage, the background color change to blue and the illuminating light as well was blue,this means that at the end of a tunnel that will always be light,the story of the youngman stated above now changed to a normal and rosy life as seen in the film background becoming blue after the red.

My photo inspired mosaic is a picture of a tree that is well colorful and can easily attract peoples attention.I used the tree because i feel it shows how beautiful ones life is.

My cocnclusion on the the clips is that at the beginning,everything was rosy,fine,normal,luxurious,beautiful,good but at the middle of ones life all this changes to struggling,sadness,sorrow,and at the eand everything comes back to normal.

Mosaic of " Kill Bill "

I think contrast is really good instrument when we emphasize something. That’s why I chose the “Kill Bill”. I think this movie expresses well the color contrast between vivid and strong colors. I love the color contrast between black and white, white and red, and yellow and black. The scene that I wanted to make as mosaic is chasing scene. I really liked color of the red sky when Uma Thurman flew toward the kidnapper. I could feel Uma Thurman’s anger thorough the ruby red sky.
Also, wearing ice-cold white clothes woman in the black car is so impressive. The color contrast of this scene attracted my attention. I could feel her inner strength and her personality through the contrast between strong black and ice-cold white colors.

I made a mosaic with these two scenes by combining of them. On the left side of the mosaic, I made the kidnapper and their subordinates. I expressed the kidnapper who is wearing white clothe by made a white window. Four black triangle shapes which is surrounding the black car are her subordinates. On the right side of the mosaic, I wanted to express Uma Thurman who was chasing her enemy. She got on the white plane and flew thorough the red sky. Five bright yellow thunderbolt shapes are representing Uma Thurman, because yellow is her symbol. I wanted express that she is stronger than her enemy. That’s why I put five thunderbolt shapes on her surroundings.

I took a photo of this flowers because I want to express the color contrast through my mosiac and I think it shows well the color contrast between yellow and black, and black and red.
I think this photo shows well Uma Thurman. Not only her symbol color but also her image in this movie. She is strong woman which has a tough spirit. The word "CAUTION" which is written by dark red is express her inner strenght.

Colors have special meanings

A color has its own special meaning and sometimes is used as a symbol that represents something. Usually what a color represents is different from culture to culture. However, it can also have a variety of meanings, depending on what meaning a director adds to it. In other words, Intended colors can bring about some kind of intended meanings or emotions, which are planned by the director.


When I first saw this movie, Kill Bill, it was filled with vivid colors. The scenes evoked me of the ones in cartoon or animation movie. The most interesting scene was the night view of Tokyo, when the main character was riding yellow motorcycle, so I decided to make mosaic with this scene.



I think that in this scene, the black background represents the cruel society where trust is often betrayed and the yellow sweat suit which the main character is wearing represents her firm resolution of the revenge. These two colors--black and yellow--are in complementary relations, so they look more prominent, used at the same time. I guess the director deliberately made use of this idea.

After made the mosaic, I got interested in the contrast of darkness and brightness between the two colors, so I tried to focus on it. I thought many other ways to express it, and finally chose to take pictures in the night, because I thought it would be the best background to describe darkness. Also, to express brightness, I decided to take pictures of the light in the street, and here are those pictures.


What I want to express in these pictures is that the light means the intense desire for something, and the darkness means an obstacle that interrupts it, like a heartless society or something like that. As mentioned before, intended colors reflect particular meaning or emotion, and I don’t think I will be able to overlook “colors” from now on.

EXTREMELY EXCITHING: KILL BILL

EXTREMELY EXCITHING: KILL BILL

Nari. Shin(Riaa) 10393738

I chose a movie which is “KILL BILL” because that clip gives a great first impression to me. I want to describe The Bride (Uma Thurman) is riding a motorcycle on the road in my mosaic.
I like vivid color on my clothes, shoes and caps. In this movie, KILL BILL, it used some of vivid color for their scene. This is why I want to make my mosaic to this movie.

In my opinion, ‘YELLOW’ is the most important color in this movie since Uma Thurman, who is main actress, wore a yellow suit and rode on a yellow motorcycle.
It was opposed to background which color is black, gray, and dark blue. Therefore, I used some color such as yellow, dark blue and gray. The yellow used to describe Uma Thurman and her motorcycle. Besides the blue color represent night sky and the gray color means the road.

I think yellow means activity, outgoing and lively. Besides through some yellow one I can feel warm. Therefore, I took this picture.
In this picture, this book is Korean book which is a diary between a mother and a little daughter. The girl, who written this book, is so creative, cute and activity. Moreover, the mother really loves her daughter and is always a good friend to her.
Throgh this book's story and bookcover, I can feel activity like Uma Thurman's carater.






The second picture is the road. It means gray color. Through this way, I can go back to my place. After watching the movie, when I was on this road, I always thought riding a motorcycle on this way is so cool like ‘The Bride’.






The last one is a red sky. As you know in this movie ‘The Bride’ was riding a motorcycle at night time. Actually, the sky at night is not just “BLACK”. So I want to represent to night sky with dark blue, blackberry purple or something.

Lucy Liu who is the KILLER

KILL BILL: Volume 1

Sohyun.Park (Sso)

My movie is the Kill Bill: Volume 1 and I describe the scene that O-Ren Ishill(Lucy Liu) sitting in the car in the deep dark night. O-Ren Ishill(Lucy Liu) who is the boss of killers appears this movie for the first time in this scene, so it is really important scene. When I saw this movie, I felt she seems like cold-hearted, mean and grave. So I want to represent this through the color.



So I choose 6 different colors such as green, black, white, yellow, grey and red. She always wears very simple Kimono, so I put white and black in her Kimono color. It looks more cold- hearted. Her dark black hair and attractive red lip is also impressed me. The background colors which black, yellow and grey mean that the black is deep dark night, the yellow is the streetlight. The last one, the grey is car seat and I want to know the people she is in the car.










I take three pictures. First one is “Red lipstick”. Red lipstick seems like sexy and attractive someone. On the other hand, red lipstick represents a killer who is women. Second one is “black & white round T-shirts”. As you know, in this movie Lucy Liu wears black & white Kimono, so I took this picture. It looks Lucy Liu more cold-hearted. The last one is “candle light”. I want to describe streetlight in the dark night. I feel blue in this picture.