assignement # 7

    The artist that I have chosen is Nancy Spero because I like the work she created. Nancy Spero likes to convey messages through her artwork because she feels, she shows how she really thinks and feel of how the world looks to her. Her art is considered to be protest against the world because the way she portrays it is different then people would see it. She mostly paints chronicled wars, apocalyptic violence, visions of ecstatic rebirth, celebratory cycles of life and women prehistory that describes how she views these types of themes. She paints about all of these topics because she shows the true nature of these events and she don't sugar coat it. One of the chronicled war she painted a lot about was the Vietnam War and the war machine but mostly in those paintings she had a helicopter in it because she felt that there were the main focus of the war. Her husband was a big influence in her art work because of his point of view of politics. She wanted her paintings' message to be complicated and than simple that anybody can just look at it and know what its about. She wanted people to think about what the message could be and have different ideas of what the people thought was the message. One of her famous art work is in 66th street Lincoln center subway station where she drew different types of women who were real or myths, which varied from many things such as religion, real life and etc. In the painting in the subway she used a lot of red and yellow which compliments one another and gives it a warm feeling and the white surrounding it gives it also a sense of peace.