Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

American

Homespun Tales

This sculpture, made by Smith is elegance itself. Made with careful strokes from different tools, the women looks almost really, as if she is looking right at us, trying to send a message. While there is no color Smith did a wonderful job using her materials to bring out the life in the sculpture.

Kiki Smith is mostly known for her painting and drawing but succeeds greatly in her sculpting. Smith chooses to draw, paint and sculpt in a different way, she wants to create a story with her strokes of pencil, clay and paint. What she tries to tell in all her artwork is metaphor of social issues. They are hidden within her artwork of women and men. Smith has also worked with clothing, printing body part on them with a secret meaning of social issues for women and men alike.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo Da Vinci

16th Century 

Italian 

Sunday

Alex Echo

American

These pictures are similar by the way that they were painted. They both have women as the main point, with a landscape in the background. The landscapes are more natural with flowers and fields. They are different by the techniques used to paint them. The background in "Sunday" is more modern while the "Mona Lisa" is more old fashioned, of course because of when it was made (in the 16th century).  The artists point of views are very much different. I believe Alex Echo was trying to make the girl magical and distant, while the "Mona Lisa" is more about the women, rather then the background. It seems like the background was the final touches of the "Mona Lisa".