Freedom Cloth
Assemblage
2005
218.0 x 172.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
Thornton Dial, Jr. (1952 –)
Thornton Dial Jr.: Anıtsal eserleriyle sosyal ve politik meseleleri ele alan cesur bir assemblage sanatçısı. Irk, tarih ve doğayı keşfedin – onun güçlü sanatına göz atın.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri)
Souls Grown Deep'i Keşfedin: Amerikan Güneyi Siyah Sanatının Kutlaması! Thornton Dial ve Lonnie Holley gibi sanatçıların ilham verici hikayelerini, Gee's Bend yorganlarını ve asamblaj sanatını keşfedin.
Dial met the quilters of Gee’s Bend in 2001, just prior to the opening of their first exhibition and subsequent rise to fame. Over the next few years, he created a number of tributes to the women and their triumph over poverty and obscurity. In 2005, he created a sculptural homage titled Freedom Cloth. The piece is an assembly of bird figures with outstretched wings roosting on a giant mound of wire, fabric, artificial flowers, and plant fronds. The birds, fashioned from rags, symbolize the women of the community whose transformation of castaway cloth into quilts afforded them expressive freedom and, more recently, the respect and admiration of a wide public audience. With that recognition there also came new social status, economic opportunities, and financial independence. Throughout Dial’s work, such birds, modeled after the bald eagle on the U.S. dollar, signify the freedom to transcend social and historical disadvantage and to aspire to the bounties of the American dream. Here, the high-soaring creatures signal not only the transcendent possibilities of old cloth, but the hope for human liberation as well.
Bu sanat eseri hakkında
- Eser Adı: Freedom Cloth
- Sanatçı: Thornton Dial, Jr.
- Yıl: 2005
- Orijinal boyutlar: 218.0 x 172.0 cm
- Biçim: Portrait
- Telif hakkı durumu: Telif hakkı koruması altında
- Sergilendiği yer: Souls Grown Deep
- Yaratım dönemi: Mature Period
- Anahtar Kelimeler: “social justice art”, “american dream art”, freedom cloth artwork
- Renk tonu: Green to Violet Spectrum
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