Rustling Palm, 2004 (oil on canvas) Wall Art

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This painting is a representation of my family heritage because since I was young enough to speak, we have always been to the beach as a huge family. The beach represents happiness from all of the generations. I have heard stories passed down from generation to generation that talk about old beach trips where our family gathered and enjoyed a good time. We all go to the beach at least 2 times a year and it is our goal to visit a new beach each time we plan a beach trip. Having this family heritage is very knowledgable because you hear about all of the trips that happened and the stories that have been told there that will make memories and last a life time.

Pink Floyd (1972) Wall Art

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Music runs in my family. A lot of people in my family have a beautiful voice and love to sing. Some of my family sings in their church quires, school bands, and even youth singing groups. Music brings about all of the emotions, feelings, and happiness in people’s lives and it really gives them a chance to express their individuality. A lot of my family members travel to different events to sing. Not only do they sing, but some of them are so musically talented that they also play a band instrument. Music is our heart and it travels with us wherever we may go. It brings about my family and what we stand for and it definitely is a part of my family cultural heritage.

Labourer and Peasant Planting Potatoes, 1884 (oil on canvas) Wall Art

Vincent Van Gogh

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Farming in my family heritage has been around for an extremely long time. It has been passed down from generation to generation with owning farm land in Newton County, Georgia. Talking with those of who are in my family know a lot of facts and information about farming and talk about all of the old farm land that has been ours for many years and goes back to my great great grandparents property from what we can understand. Time and technology has really played a huge role within farming. Everything is starting to change and now thankfully, you do not have to work as hard with the farms and keeping them well kept compared to back in the old ages. It is not an easy job by any means, but farming is something that has been around and will continue to play a role in our every day lives.

I definitely would consider memes to be art. I think it expresses people’s individuality just like a painting would. It also brings out the humor in things or people.. just like memes of Kanye West, Hilary Clinton, animals, or even our president, Donald Trump. I think they bring about politics and things that is going on in the real world to bring humor back into our lives. They are actually a really cool thing that bring out the significance that allows people to express emotions that sometimes can be a motivation. It is definitely art, because just like a real artist…, it took time and dedication to come up with something original that the public can enjoy. I created this meme because my friend and I were doing one of those videos to where we made ourselves look ugly with makeup and then did our makeup better to show people what makeup can actually do. I thought it would be funny to use this picture for this because I thought it fit perfectly.

While reading Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, I noticed that she was to be considered a neo-conceptual artist. Jenny turned to strategies of mass media and advertising in her work which is a way to get noticed in my opinion and to actually get your name out there. She was known for Truisms which started in 1979 and then carried on this tradition by putting up truisms in local areas in Manhattan to bring out her work to random people. She used these truisms as a symbol to represent people and the things that hurt people or things that bring people down. She shows that just behind a person holds the life of human and the battles that they may have gone through. It made it to where people can relate to other people that may be going through the same thing. Her work and her meaning are still displayed today in famous world museums that people can see all over the world.

My truism comes from one of the most difficult times in my life when I went off to college. I went away to college my first year and lived in Athens with none of my friends and 3 random roommates that I ended up hating. I went to class and basically came back to my apartment….alone. I always felt alone. I didn’t get to make friends that well. I wanted to come home all of the time. I struggled with my classes. I didn’t make the best grades my first year. I just hated everything and I could not wait to switch schools. I learned that it could always be worse and that it would all be over before I knew it and I just prayed for the best with the next year in my life. I figured that it wasn’t time for me to leave home, my friends and family. I thought I was ready, but it ended up that I just was not ready for that point in my life to grow up and be “alone.”