The artwork I chose to critique is called Egun Dance 2. This was made by Fahamu Pecou. Made on August 26-October 8 2016. Made with nothing, but graphite and acrylic on paper. Seeing that most of his art centered around beautiful black women, I'm assuming that this is an Indian/African woman dancing at a cultural event.
The artwork's color is pretty simple, just a black outline and orange acrylic paint. No colors are repeating, and there are no signs of connections of anything. The picture is pretty flat. But I personally chose this because of the illustration to me symbolizes old ritual drawings back in B.C. I believe that the painting symbolizes the dancer trying to to talk to their deceased ancestors by spiritually summoning them with their dance.
I think the artist was trying to bring the art style back from long ago, when the Indians used paint and dancing to pray and celebrate. The writing on it's clothes remind me of old Indian rituals. I believe that the painting symbolizes the dancer trying to to talk to their deceased ancestors by spiritually summoning them with their dance.
His other work shows a lot of other Indian/African women and things of that culture. That's all that really relates. The artwork doesn't really move me in a way, it just makes me feel good and i just plain like it. I'm going to try to imitate his style, maybe it'll help my painting skills. I can't say anything else that isn't positive about this piece of art work. It's bland, but, "less is more".
