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Art Exhit Victoria College Is An Expression Of Creativity
Written by Steve Broussard
Thursday, 02 October 2008
AN EXPRESSION OF CREATIVITY......SOMETIMES IT COMES FROM READING A SIGN AND TURNING IT INTO A MASTER PIECE OF ART.
THAT IS WHAT THE TRANSLATIONS ART EXHIBIT IS ALL ABOUT. IT WAS AN IDEA THAT WAS BROUGHT TO THE COLLEGE 4 YEARS AGO, BY AN ENGLISH TEACHER AT THE COLLEGE.
IT FEATURES THE MANY ARRAYS OF COLOR THAT JUMP OUT TO THE VIEWER,
A FRAME OF CANCELED POSTAGE STAMPS THAT RESEMBLES THE BEAUTY OF A QUILT.
IDOL HANDS IS THE TITLE OF THIS INTERPRETATION, OF THE HOLY BIBLE, WITH PRECISION CUTS FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS, WITH THE WORD IDLE.
BUT THE ART EXHIBIT ALSO BRINGS PICTURES OF A DREAM WORLD.......
THE ARTIST USES BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS TO GIVE IMAGES IN A FANTASY WORLD
IN ANOTHER DISPLAY, ONE ART TEACHER AT THE COLLEGE, HE USED A TV NEWS PROGRAM TO CREATE THIS COLLAGE OF PICTURES FROM AN INTERVIEW ON OF MICHELLE MALKIN AND HER COMMENTS, ON THE BILL O'REILLY SHOW
<"So these pictures are fragmented lip movements of who's freeking who, re-shot on a black and white film made into more like a contact sheet.">Shreepad Joglekar\Victoria College Art Teacher
AND ALTHOUGH THIS CAKE LOOKS REAL AND TASTY, IT'S ACTUALLY MADE OF CLAY.
SCULPTURE ANDREW LEO STANSBURY PUTS FLAVORING ON HIS CREATION AND SLICES IT TO LOOK LIKE AN ACTUAL PIECE OF CAKE.
AND THEN THERE'S VIDEO ART, PRODUCTIONS THAT DISPLAY THAT ART OF SINGING AND JUST ENJOYING MUSIC.
THE ART EXHIBIT TRANSLATIONS WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE VICTORIA COLLEGE FINE ARTS AUDITORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF OCTOBER.