Art at the College Of Charleston

Who: Mid-Career Artist
What: Post Dome Project
Where: The Haulsey
When: December 3
Price: Free

      I went to the Post Dome Project at the Haulsey. It consisted of 3-D models, Drawings, and Paintings by Don Zanfagna. The exhibit is open from October 19 to December 8. Most of the drawings and paintings are futuristic. His idea for the exhibit was "Growing your own house".
      The paintings and drawings were very strange, but also very intriguing. I have never seen  paintings like this in person, but it was a good first exsperience. I learned that anyone can draw whatever they want if they just put their mind to it and let their imagination go wherever it wants to go.
                                                          -Austin

The Art of Charleston!

What: Art of Charleston
Who: Many different Artist
When: November 10-11
Where: Town Center, Mount Pleasant
Price: Free

     This art show was mainly artist of Charleston with drawings and paintings of people, animals, and buildings in the Low Country. Pictures were not only of the low country, there were also abstract, sculptures, and drawings of different figures. The pictures consisted of birds in the marsh, animals, and famous buildings in the south.
      I learned that most of the pictures were taken by camera and then a print was made and then multiple drawings and paintings were produced with that one print. I never knew that our surroundings look so good. All the drawings and pantings pulled all the vibrant colors out and all the forage and waters, and what we look at everyday.
                                                                                      -Austin






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e pictures were not of the low country and they were just drawings and paintings and there was also sculptures that theThis art show was mainly pictures of the Low Country. That includes pictures of marsh birds, people of the low country, and buildings and places. Also some pictures were not of the low show was mainly pictures of the Low Country. That includes pictures of marsh birds, people of the low country, and buildings and places. Also some pictures were not of the low country and they were just drawings and paintings and there was also sculptures that the people mad

Its a purple color

Movie: The Color purple
When: during the time period of 1900's
Where:

• watched at the First Baptist Gym
• taken place in the south of the US

Price: FREE

         The Color Purple was taken place in the 1900's in the south of the United States. Its about the life of Celie Harris, a african american woman who at a young age had been sexually abused by her father and had two kids which her father took of them away from her by the time she was 14. Celie was then  forced the marry a wealthy man. Celies husband as she refears to as "Mister" abuses her to intimidate her so she wont control him. Celies sister later comes and visits but then later was kicked out. When Nettie was kicked out she promised Celie that she would always write her. Celie through time never recieved the letters and was depressed for a long time. Later on Shug Avery a Jazz Singer, who Albert or as known as Mister from Celie was overlly obsessed with her. She came and stayied with Celie and her family. Shug was sick and demented, and when she first arrived the first thing she said to Celie "Your Ugly!" Celie and Shug later became great friends and actually had an affair. Alberts son Harpo then married Sofia who also had an abusive family but it was her own and not Harpo. Sofia was a strong young woman andd refused to tolerate any abuse from men. Sofia's loud mouth later gets her in trouble for talking back and hitting the mayor (who is caucasian). Later on Shugs came back to Celie and Ablert but she brought back her husband too. This put both of them in shock. Celie and Shugs then found the old letters that Celie's sister sent her but Albert kept it a secret from her. Celie began to read the letters to find her sister had went to Africa to be a missionary. While finding all this information about Nettie, Celie and a group were at dinner and Shug and her new husband were bout to leave when Celie stood up for her self and left Albert. The last thing she said to him was "You kept Nettie away from me because she was the only one that loved me... and until you do the right thing everything you do will go wrong." Celie was then on her own setting up her own new life. She then began to sell "one size fits all" pants. She opened up a shop after the death of her step-father and also inherited a shop and house from her biological father. Albert after Celie left became an Achoholic and could barely take care of himself. Albert finally decided to do something good for once and brought back Celie sister, son, and daughter. Celie was over joyed when she saw them and when Nettie introduced her son and daughter. At the end Albert is looking from a far with a smile upon his face while Shug smiles. As the sun setted Nettie and Celie played their child hood clapping game.

My overall experience from watching the movie was that I learned more about what some African American women had to face while in the 1900's but also with in their own families. It showed me that it wasnt a nice place in the world to live in. Although through out the movie it made me wonder how did some of these African americans have all this money to have alot of land, big houses, and expensive things. For the reason it was after slavery and still some slavery was occuring. My rating of the movie would be a seven because it something that everyone should watch to get the feel at what some African American women had to go through to get where they are today, but not as extreme.

People of the South

What: Art Exhibit 

Who: Mary Whyte

When: October 5, 2012- February 10, 2013

Where: Telfair Art Museum, Savannah 

Price: Free Admission

     Charleston Water Color Artist Mary Whyte painted a group of 30 paintings depicting the people of the Working South. She traveled throughout the South capturing the essence of the workers that she painted. She painted the fisherman, the seamstress, the boat captain, cotton mill worker, the farmer etc... 

Mrs. Whyte wanted to capture and honor the hard work of the blue color workers before they disappeared. The paintings hang in the adjacent 4 rooms of the second floor of the Academy building adjacent to the New Telfair Museum that was built a few years ago.

     I know of Mary Whyte work from her gallery on Church Street in Charleston. These paintings were amazing. The medium of water color is very hard to work in and her ability to capture the tiniest details on her subjects was amazing. For example, if you look at the Ferry Boat Captain, you can see each hair on his arm and she was able to catch each of her subjects expressions. All the paintings were beautiful and I felt that they did show a part of the South that people do not usually see. 

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Abstractions at the City Gallery

What: Art Museum

Who: Benjamin Hollingsworth Exhibit 

When: December 6, 2012

Where: City of Charleston Art Museum

Price: Free Admissions

     The creative abstract artist is Benjamin Hollingsworth. Every single piece of his work from his sculptures to his colorful paintings, he creates them all to be abstract. Hollingsworth is showing his newest pieces of art this winter, from November 17 - December 30, 2012. What is special about his abstract art is that he takes every day, ordinary things that we would think couldn’t be art, and incorporates it into something unusual. Shown in the sculpture below, he uses chairs and tables. These are everyday objects that are in every house that we wouldn’t take a second look at, but Hollingsworth creates something unthinkable.

I learned that you can take any ordinary everyday thing and make it a piece of art. I thought his work was very unusual and different. I was puzzled with some of his art work because they were very mixed but I did not find it to be that creative. Abstract art means abstractions and his sculpture using the chairs and table was representational. I think his work was different but, it did not wow me, I felt like I had seen work like his before in Museums by artists that are no longer living. 

Art?

What: Exhibit of Grace

Who: Benjamin Hollingsworth

When: November 17- December 30

Where: The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs

Price: Free

On December 6, I went to the Office of Cultural Affairs, and that is the first thing I walk into:

Chairs, and a broken table. Well, this is art, I think. I do not really understand it. Is there even anything to understand? I do not know. Moving on. I looked at something else, and this is what I found:

Art? Yes, but contemporary art.

Hollingsworth is a contemporary artist. Does the fact that I don't understand his sculptures and paintings make him a good contemporary artist? 

This exhibit really made me think about what art should look like. But there is no "real" art. 

You can not define art. 

So if you like contemporary art, and to think about what the work you are looking at can possibly mean, then I recommend this to you! 

I personally did not really enjoy it, because I am not fan of this kind of art. However, I still thought it was interesting, and surprising. 

The artists' donation

What: Exhibit and auction

Who: CFADA (Charleston Fine Art Dealers Association)

When: November 3rd

Where: Gibbs Museum

Price: Free


The Gibbs exhibited the work of the artists who painted in the park earlier that day. Later, there was an auction, and all the benefits went to the Charleston County High Schools Department.

The paintings, I thought, were stunning. They were very colorful, with a lot of bright colors.
I enjoyed being there, observing the paintings, and my favorite was that one:

West Fraser painted it. He is a famous Southern painter.
I think it is great what the artists did: painted and donated their work to the auction.
It was a great experience, I met a lot of artists, and enjoyed being around them and talking to them.