Joan Snyder, Our foremothers
Joan Snyder, Our Foremothers
Why this painting? Joan Snyder’s, Our Foremothers, gave me the best aesthetic experience. The colors, names, contrast, and movement drew me into the painting and made me want to look at the painting and understand fully what Joan Snyder was feeling and trying to express when painting the piece. Immediately when I saw the painting several questions aroused in my mind. I was drawn to the painting and knew I would enjoy writing about it for this assignment. Throughout the collection of Joan Snyder’s art in University of New Mexico’s Art Museum, there was a personal style her painting easy to familiarize with in the future, which I like. Our Foremothers message of women’s struggle throughout history, expressed in the intensity and dramatic feel that the colors in the writing and the mid-ground is what appealed to me and made me like the it. My eyes kept an on going curiosity about the something new I would see. It made me feel an emotion over the names and messages read. I also enjoyed that the painting kept my attention at everything that was going on. There was a lot to look at and to think about. The message Joan wrote was a liking in the painting also. After reading, it opened up some new thoughts and feelings to the painting that I had not known.
It meant to me that Joan was a strong, expressive woman, who had a great appreciation for the woman in history, and women present in her life, that have over come the challenges that women have faced. The struggle is reflected in Our Foremothers well. It made me feel for women in history who have past down to me women’s rights and the women in my life particularly my mom and grandma. Being raised in a religious environment, the names of the women who were mentioned in the Old Testament made me think of the histories of these women and how they are nothing. Women have been neglected in history and that is something that hit an emotion in me when looking at this painting.
Why this painting? Joan Snyder’s, Our Foremothers, gave me the best aesthetic experience. The colors, names, contrast, and movement drew me into the painting and made me want to look at the painting and understand fully what Joan Snyder was feeling and trying to express when painting the piece. Immediately when I saw the painting several questions aroused in my mind. I was drawn to the painting and knew I would enjoy writing about it for this assignment. Throughout the collection of Joan Snyder’s art in University of New Mexico’s Art Museum, there was a personal style her painting easy to familiarize with in the future, which I like. Our Foremothers message of women’s struggle throughout history, expressed in the intensity and dramatic feel that the colors in the writing and the mid-ground is what appealed to me and made me like the it. My eyes kept an on going curiosity about the something new I would see. It made me feel an emotion over the names and messages read. I also enjoyed that the painting kept my attention at everything that was going on. There was a lot to look at and to think about. The message Joan wrote was a liking in the painting also. After reading, it opened up some new thoughts and feelings to the painting that I had not known.
It meant to me that Joan was a strong, expressive woman, who had a great appreciation for the woman in history, and women present in her life, that have over come the challenges that women have faced. The struggle is reflected in Our Foremothers well. It made me feel for women in history who have past down to me women’s rights and the women in my life particularly my mom and grandma. Being raised in a religious environment, the names of the women who were mentioned in the Old Testament made me think of the histories of these women and how they are nothing. Women have been neglected in history and that is something that hit an emotion in me when looking at this painting.