When you take a look into the art of Louis Bourgeois you see a large array of expressionism. Her work is filled with emotion and intention that connect with Barrett’s description and overall idea of expressionism. You can feel the heavy emotions that are prevalent in her work. A lot of Bourgeois’ work is centered around her difficult childhood and her struggles with her father that you can easily and deeply feel represented in her sculptures. You feel the turmoil in the dark metal, dramatic lighting, and eerie sculpting.

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When you take a look into the works of Louis Bourgeois you are met with incredibly intimate sculptures and paintings that leave you with a sense of life. You can almost feel the life and age that these works represent and show different emotions of her past and present. Her works are metaphors of the different eras and stages of her life. These range from the more obvious, to the more thought provoking but either way these works show the life of a wonderful and strong women.

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In this video we see some of Bourgeois’ beautiful hand sculptures. They show hands holding each other, and you feel a sense of helping and community. According to Bourgeois they are supposed to show helplessness and how we are meant to help others. In these works you see a cluster of hands each holding one another in different ways, with a new arm being added each sculpture. I felt as though these hands were a symbolic sign of unity and community.

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In this reading we learned about the different types of tropes and how they relate to art in both a literal and figurative sense. We have four major tropes that we discuss in this reading. They consist of a metaphor, which relate different things together, metonym, which relate by connecting different things, synechdoche, which relates one thing instead of another thing and finally irony, which relates opposites within an expression.

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In this reading we learned about semiotics, and it’s significance in our lives and how that significance relates to art. The three forms of signs that we reviewed in this reading were an iconic, an indexical and a symbolic sign. We see most of these signs within our daily lives. A lot of symbolic signs are seen on our daily drives to indicate how drivers interact with the road. The red on a traffic light means stop, just like a red stop sign. Indexical signs are also used in our daily lives through our texting and messaging. Most kids know what the different meanings of emojis are without having to have someone explain it to them. Lastly, and most abstract is iconic signs, that show things in ways that they are like, but not exactly ‘are’, we see examples of this on menus in restaurants and cafes, we see pictures of the food but we see the cleanest, and most appetizing form of that food, which often differs from how it actually ends up arriving.

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According to Barrett, expressionism is ” an eminent, popular and appealing theory of art”(pg.65). This idea of expressionism focuses heavily on emotion, and it is within that emotion that artists create their works. Barrett says that expressionism and cognitivism, which is the idea that “art provides knowledge of the world in unique and powerful ways”. that would be lost if not preserved in this format (pg.65). While both of these forms contain heavy emotions, expressionism and cognitivism they are created in two different emotional levels and intent.

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Barrett, Terry. Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press, 2017.

This is my final project, I took my iPhone from the third project and shaped them into an artistic interpretation of a box of phones. @

This is my iPhone on Fusion for the Third Project. I used Sketch on Fusion and created each piece.

This is my jpg version of the Laser cutter. I chose a hairbrush because it seemed as though it would be interesting.

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