Kara Walker: Evoking History with Black Cut-Paper Silhouettes
Karen Walker
Karen Walker is an African American artist born in the November 29 1969 in Stockton California USA.
Kara Walkers, father was an educated artist leaving her to have appreciation for the arts Walker says she had developed an interest in art from the age of 3 years of age primarily because her father was an artist. Walker advised in her teenage years she realized she really liked pictures that told her stories of things – genres paintings and historical paintings the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary paintings.
Walker held an exhibition in New York after she had obtained her MFA from the school of Design in Rhode Island, in 1994. Walker exhibited her mural An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart." Walker’s exhibition was a success and attracted attention from the art world.
Walker is best known for her black paper cut out silhouettes and has produced works in ochre gouaches, video animation, shadow puppets, and "magic-lantern" projections, as well as a number of black-paper silhouettes, perhaps her most recognizable works to date. The medium technique ochre gouaches are paintings of watercolours prepared with gum.
Walker uses images to show the historical stories from African Americans in the South before the American civil war. Walker raises identity issues for African American women and slavery in the South some of the images being disturbing and confrontational. “It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.” This unusual cut-paper silhouette mural, presenting an old-timey south filled with sex and slavery was an instant
Walker’s works show the raw interaction of race, gender and sexuality through her silhouetted figures. Her works are crowded with figures that evoke history from the past leaving viewers to interpret these stories engaging their own thought and ideas. Walker’s works of art could challenge viewers as interpretations will
Karen Walker is an African American artist born in the November 29 1969 in Stockton California USA.
Kara Walkers, father was an educated artist leaving her to have appreciation for the arts Walker says she had developed an interest in art from the age of 3 years of age primarily because her father was an artist. Walker advised in her teenage years she realized she really liked pictures that told her stories of things – genres paintings and historical paintings the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary paintings.
Walker held an exhibition in New York after she had obtained her MFA from the school of Design in Rhode Island, in 1994. Walker exhibited her mural An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart." Walker’s exhibition was a success and attracted attention from the art world.
Walker is best known for her black paper cut out silhouettes and has produced works in ochre gouaches, video animation, shadow puppets, and "magic-lantern" projections, as well as a number of black-paper silhouettes, perhaps her most recognizable works to date. The medium technique ochre gouaches are paintings of watercolours prepared with gum.
Walker uses images to show the historical stories from African Americans in the South before the American civil war. Walker raises identity issues for African American women and slavery in the South some of the images being disturbing and confrontational. “It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.” This unusual cut-paper silhouette mural, presenting an old-timey south filled with sex and slavery was an instant
Walker’s works show the raw interaction of race, gender and sexuality through her silhouetted figures. Her works are crowded with figures that evoke history from the past leaving viewers to interpret these stories engaging their own thought and ideas. Walker’s works of art could challenge viewers as interpretations will