The first art event that I attended
was the student art show. The art show allowed me to see what other students
worked on and their individual styles. It also gave me the opportunity to see
work in mediums that I am not used to working with. I have seen the creation
and progress of some of the works at the show. There was a difference in the
meaning of the work when I was seeing the artist make it and when it was
actually hung on the wall.
The work that I was interested in
seeing hung in the gallery was the Stephanie Scott’s series of hockey images. The
drawings were pencil and paint on paper and were supposed to represent the
different aspects of hockey. The red paint was supposed to represent the
violence and blood that can often be seen during hockey games. I was able to
see when Stephanie was making the work during a class and the meaning was
different to when I saw it hanging in the gallery. While talking to Stephanie
when she was making the drawings, she said that the drawings are to represent
her love for the sport and the action that happens in the sport. Without the
artist talking about the work, I just thought that it was supposed to show how
violent hockey can be.
The drawing that caught my
attention was an ice skate, helmet and there was a lot of red paint splattered
on the paper. I thought that the drawing
was simple and showed the message the artist wanted to represent. It used two objects that are seen in hockey
with the blood representing the action that takes place during the game.
Overall, the drawing was effective because of its simplicity. The reason that I
chose this work was because I had seen it before and because I interpreted the
meaning slightly different when I saw it at the gallery.
