Art Appreciation: Kiki Smith's Lying With Wolf
Mahmoud Hammad
06/14/2015
Art Appreciation
Throughout the career of Kiki Smith work, she’s assembled many themes into her artwork. Her work lying with wolf depicts a woman lying naked sensually with a wolf. Her work basically were themed sexually, spiritually, domestically, mythological, and religiously all pertaining to the famine side. On top of that, also forming a bond between human and animal.
Made between the years of 2000 and 2002, lying with wolf was one of those examples that flourished animal and human interacting between each other. She loved visuals, historical oral drawings that can share mythological stories including folk tale with clusters of meaning behind them.
The female figure she made in her artwork were based off little red riding hood, and other of her close associates like Saint Francis of Assisi. This resulted because of her close relationship with animals and the ability to domesticate wolves. One of her works have a woman walking out the stomach of a wolf made of a bronze sculpture. While as the the lying with wolf was seen as more intimated as they are affectionately cuddle with each other. The wolf assumed to be tamed, and share a tenderness moment in the drawing. …show more content…
An demonstrated her views through the vision of her art, through the relationship she bind together of visual, and narrative style. Now as the characters were depicted as companions they were actually also viewed as prey and predator roles. Showing some metaphors into human relationships. Then, she would also make political statements because it seemed like society had grant more power to men. Pointing out that inequality wasn’t fair, and feminist and men position should bind into
06/14/2015
Art Appreciation
Throughout the career of Kiki Smith work, she’s assembled many themes into her artwork. Her work lying with wolf depicts a woman lying naked sensually with a wolf. Her work basically were themed sexually, spiritually, domestically, mythological, and religiously all pertaining to the famine side. On top of that, also forming a bond between human and animal.
Made between the years of 2000 and 2002, lying with wolf was one of those examples that flourished animal and human interacting between each other. She loved visuals, historical oral drawings that can share mythological stories including folk tale with clusters of meaning behind them.
The female figure she made in her artwork were based off little red riding hood, and other of her close associates like Saint Francis of Assisi. This resulted because of her close relationship with animals and the ability to domesticate wolves. One of her works have a woman walking out the stomach of a wolf made of a bronze sculpture. While as the the lying with wolf was seen as more intimated as they are affectionately cuddle with each other. The wolf assumed to be tamed, and share a tenderness moment in the drawing. …show more content…
An demonstrated her views through the vision of her art, through the relationship she bind together of visual, and narrative style. Now as the characters were depicted as companions they were actually also viewed as prey and predator roles. Showing some metaphors into human relationships. Then, she would also make political statements because it seemed like society had grant more power to men. Pointing out that inequality wasn’t fair, and feminist and men position should bind into