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Prints & design

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       As an artist, Roy De Forest started his career in 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From there, he has studied lithography during his career; eventually he was able to incorporate this with his art style. Lithography was a style known for printing within ink and processing high quality images. Roy De Forest is well known for his cartoon drawings stylized with animals, humans, devils and ships. Along with keeping his consistent art style, as well as incorporating some graphic arts within his medium, he was able to create different types of stories within each collection of his work.       Within The art exhibition, located in the Manetti Shrem Museum in UC Davis, Roy De forest had a collection of work posted within the gallery. How the artworks were arranged were organized in different categories; each of these categories represents a different type of genre that De Forest exemplifies through each of his works. Some of these categories would include obscure titles such as Metamorp

Sensory

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      A week before Spring break, one of the art lectures that I have recently discovered relates to another artist that has her work involving social practice. Angie Ang, A time based media and New Media artist, has involved her work around the topic of social engaged art. Her artwork shows how engaging it is towards the audience of identity, as well as emphasizing her principles towards social justice, and other political spectrums within her art. I have asked her how long do projects like these take within her work, and her response was about six months. Within the time frame, she had to collaborate with other people of identity in order to make her artwork successful; these methods involve interviewing the participants as well as researching on the subject matter that relates to social justice. Within the timeframe, she made these methods possible in order to make her work successful; she backed up her work after gathering all the necessary sources she needed to implement the ideas

Shadows of Animation

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      A South African Artist named William Kentridge, has developed his art that involves various mediums within his work. These mediums range from printmaking, collages, charcoal, graphite, and ink. What all of these mediums however have in common, is that they involve the use of movement and animation. The artwork Kentridge has made focuses on movement and animation in order to interact with his viewers; he interacts with his viewers by questioning their world on where they live in today, and how they see it in their eyes.  Time: 6:08     In a recent exhibition he has created, In Praise of Shadow, he created several animations and installations that involve quick and precise drawings that give the viewers straight to the point; all of his drawings, animations and installations are meant to be imaginative towards ideas, as well as sending context towards his viewers. Some of these artworks that Kentridge has made involve several different types of arrangements, depending on what kind