Tuesday, December 07, 2004
I must only take finals for two of the five classes in which I enrolled this semester. Those are in my major and are not cumulative, which means I shall not make an especial effort to study for them. However, my art appreciation journal is due tomorrow: I procrastinated on five assignments and am completing them this afternoon and evening. I scribbled notes from a few websites and must now compose the project material, which consumes time but is not particularly difficult.
I researched the work of an African artist, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, who lives and operates out of Germany. This piece is entitled Sonnenprinz:
For another assignment the instructor instructed us to locate a subcultural artist. I visited an artist directory and clicked on all the Hispanic names until I came across Rene Trujillo, who lives in Los Angeles:
More of Owusu-Ankomah's work may be explored here, there, and everywhere.
Rene Trujillo has said, 'I couldn't be essentialist even if I wanted to be," due to his mixed ethnicity and range of artistic influences.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 2:30 PM]