I attended the live art history lecture presented by the VMFA Statewide Partner Speaker, Dr. Jeanette Nicewinter on Latin American Art History, specifically on Inkan art history. The lecture was quite interesting although it is unfortunate that much of this history was destroyed by the Spanish during the conquest of South America. However, I felt like I was able to learn quite a bit about their textiles process, even though much of the specifics are unknown it was interesting to learn about how important textiles were as an artistic form. I learned about how the textiles were never cut, simply woven into shape and were used as markers of identity. I also learned about how they tended to use geometric designs, which were limited, but often on a large scale. This is something I might want to learn about more as I would be interested to look into this process of textile making further because it is quite different than the more natural forms I tend to use, but I do like the use of geometric shapes so this might be something I look into for the future in patterning. I also was interested by how clothing was related to identity and used show identity so I might also want to investigate this as much of my work is also related to my identity and some of the disconnect I feel with it.
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Avarice StankiewiczHi, I'm Avarice, though I mostly go by Kace, I'm an art 5 student at Maggie Walker Governor's school and page is just a space for some reflection, research and progress photos for my work. Archives
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