What is quilting? To me quilting meant nothing to me but sewing together patches of different color fabrics to make a blanket or something to put around you in order to keep warm. After visiting the African American Quilt exhibit I was really fascinated. I found out that there was much more to quilts then just what I thought. Especially these quilts they where patched together with pieces of fabric that actually had a meaning, pieces from the pass. The quilts where really interesting and what made them so important to me was that fact that they where quilts that where made years and years ago. Some of the quilts go back as far as World War II and the Civil War. The quilts show creativity and warmth of African American families through Reconstruction and New South historic period. Not just one person made all of the quilts is this exhibit but they where made by a variety of people. A mix o
I observed a piece while I was in the quilt exhibit. It was an interesting piece. It is not a quilt but it was a picture. This picture or art work was done by Sam Gillian. The name of this piece was Mixed Media on Canvas (tondo). I like this piece because it is very different. It was done on canvas which made it very unique. When I was looking at this piece it really caught my eye and made me feel really relaxed. Some of the elements of the composition or piece of work are the same. Some of the colors stick out more then others like the blue and the green. I think if one of these colors where removed then the picture would no longer relax me because the blue is what relaxed me. It would just become a happy and exciting picture if these colors where removed. The scale of the work is appropriate however if it was made smaller it wouldn’t have that much of an effect on people as it would bei
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