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ART CRITICISM
Art criticism is the critical standard that explains art work’s quality and significance in comparison with art review, and classify three basic types generally ; diaristic, formalist, contextualist. Although they are not clearly distinguished, they introduce art to us on the printed page vividly. Also art criticism is helpful to educate the public to a deeper understanding of art.

ART21 - KARA WALKER
Kara Walker is one of the promising artists of the world and she is famous for her paper-cut silhouettes. These black figures are pretty simple and cartoonish at a glance, but their captured images show horrible stories. This ironic works gave me a little shock because Kara’s calm appearance and delicate processing did not look like dealing with the heavy social problem including American racial, gender and power tensions.
Kara’s processing of the work can be seen easily. She draws her images from romantic historical fictions with a white pencil on large piece of black paper, cuts them out and adheres to on the wall. However, the whole installation is her own ability that creates space and history of her life. In every her works, black and white colors convey clear meaning to us through the high value contrast– fear, power, etc, but in her woks at Guggenheim museum, she used overhead projection to make colored transparent shadows. These vibrant lights make the depth of the work and the viewer’s shadow so that people feel like they walk in her exhibition and mingle with the figures. This is my favorite part because it makes possible for people to exist in real space and can be a part of the work in panoramic view.
I do not think that Kara is a very creative artist in comparison with others, but she creates her perception of the world in her own style through the simplified details. I think she always concentrates her voices from her heart and is sensitive to her identity; American-African. That’s why I chose her.