Sonya Rapoport is an American
digital artist born on October 6, 1923. She studied at the Massachusetts
College of Art, Arts Student League of New York and Corcoran School of Art in
Washington D.C. Rapoport has had a variety of artistic styles. She has worked
using the human figure in abstract form, then expressionist style, interactive
installations and digital art. Some of the topics she uses in her work include
gender, politics and technology. Digital Mudra (1988-1989) is a collection of
pictures that were taken from Rapoport’s interactive piece called Biorhythm
that took place in 1983. The process of the piece was that a participant would
be asked express how they feel using words and gestures. Photographs were taken
as the participants expressed their feelings and later used for Digital Mudra.
The participants would be seated in a dentist’s chair, had bibs that served as
a background to view the gestures when photographed.
It was interesting to find out the
purpose behind Digital Mudra. Rapoport was connecting the gestures people and
their verbal expressions with the gestures used in the Mudra style of storytelling.
Mudra movements are from India and are gestures used when telling a story. Rapoport
has a unique style of creating art. She uses more than one topic to create her
artwork. There is always some sort of scientific research involved in her work.
Digital Mudra analyzed the relationship between gestures and verbal expression.
There is always some form of text that has
been digitally added to the images which help identify the piece or give some
background information. I think that she is trying to use art and mix it with scientific
research. The labels, graphs and diagrams used in her work can be connected to
charts used by doctors.
Adam Kadmon
Rapoport’s style of digital art is
unique and interesting but difficult to understand at times. It takes a while
to figure out what is happening in the image. In some of her work, it is hard
to know the message behind the work unless you have background information on
the subject. For example, in Digital Mudra, I did not know the purpose of it
until I read the process of its creation. The labels she uses in her art can
sometimes be misleading and at times be helpful in reading the meaning. The
work is aesthetically pleasing because of the symmetry that is sometimes used. Overall, her artwork is sometimes hard to
understand but I think that spending time figuring out the meaning is part of
her intention. She uses the labels to aid the viewer in finding the meaning of
her work.
Garden of Brutal Myths
Works Cited:
- http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/sonya-rapoport/digital-mudra-1989.jpg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:12.Garden-Brutal_Myths.jpghttp://www.kala.org/exhibitions/past/2011/sonya.html
- http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/digitalmudra/index.html
- http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/spaces-of-life-the-art-of-sonya-rapoport/
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