ChrisB



1) What is the social issue and what is the artist's viewpoint? What do you see in the work that supports the viewpoint? 2) As you observe the piece, what emotions are provoked? What artistic elements does the artist use to provoke the viewer's emotion?

I believe that the social issue is death and dying. I think this because there is a Grim Reaper holding a world. I don't think that its with a person dying, I think that the artist is trying to say that the world is coming to an end. Also there could be that there is to much darkness in the world today. The colors, red and black, of the paintings also make my conclusion that it has to do with death and dying.

As I observe the piece, I notice that the emotions of this piece is dark, harsh, anger, death, and sadness. A skeleton is on element that the artist used to provoke the viewer's emotion. When I normally see a skeleton I think of death and dying. The world being black and red adds a element that the world is dark. The Grim Reaper is a symbol for death or darkness. One major element is the Grim Reaper is holding the world in his hand and his scythe in the other.

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The reason why I chose this theme is because its the new thing to do in high school. The personal connection that I have with this is that my aunt has a gambling problem. There are so many high schooler starting to have gambling problems and they don't see what they are doing to them selfs. I believe that gambling is a waste of time and you could use you money some where else. I've watched my friends waste their paychecks, and the next week do it all over again with no reward. The problems I faced was that, i made a poker table for my clay figure and it was to short. Also the first table broke. Then the second table was to tall. The legs warped. As i started to make my poster the background picture was to pixelated. No. I could have done better, but its hard to do it at the end of your senior year. I'm not going to say it not working because I do like it. There are things that I wish i would have changed. I really like the fact and how they correspond with the pictures. The back ground color I don't like. At the end of the process i'm happy how it turned out. If i could have changed anything would be the back ground color and if the picture not being pixelated.