Week 6

Week 6 – Artist Conversation #2 – Ana Alvarez and Ricardo Corona

Artist: Ana Alvarez and Ricardo Corona
Exhibition: Jen Redwater and The Confrontation
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Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Max L. Gatov Gallery West
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So in both artworks called Jen Redwater and The Confrontation by Ana Alvarez and Ricardo Corona the main theme is mostly cowboys and western lifestyle of the characters. The artworks involve paintings of fictional old western characters and the paintings were medium sized framed paintings and the paintings have a lot of bright colors. The colors are also vivid primary colors and the paintings were pretty sinuous because the background and the characters had a lot of uneven curves which helped in creating them. The rhythm that I get from the artworks Jen Redwater and The Confrontation is that a lot of the red orange color is mainly used in the paintings and the color is used to show how the desert is in the fantasy worlds of the paintings. The paintings weren’t that small nor that big to make you either look closer to see the painting better or step away so that you can see the whole painting from a far distance so it was nice that the paintings were a decent size so that you can see it at a desirable distance.

The ideas that are explored in Ana Alvarez’s Jen Redwater is how the characters are and how they would exist in a western world and when ever she makes a character design she always thinks about where they came from and the type of clothes that they wear. Another idea was what they would use to survive in the western world and how the characters are adventurers and the way that they explore mines and create a design that would be believable for the show. The ideas that are explored in Ricardo Corona’s The Confrontation is how the towns would look like, what the surrounding landscape would look like, and how the clouds are painted in a simple way that makes the clouds look super realistic but other worldly. Another idea is that he wanted to show how the setting might be for a fantasy western world where there was magic but also cowboys and how the nature of these worlds might be different yet similar to our world and the old western lifestyle. An idea that I got from Ana Alvarez’s Jen Redwater and Ricardo Corona’s The Confrontation is that they probably wanted to show how two really different things can actually make a more complex and unique creation that could amuse two different audiences.

The artwork to me meant that two polar opposites can create something that is unique and brings something new to the surface of art. The way that these artworks resonated within me was that it showed me that you can create something that isn’t ordinary and it can provide something that can make you feel something new when you see the result. The way that the formal nature of the artworks and the two artists’ ideas resonated with my ideas, perceptions, and perspectives is that I also tried something new and that thing is the Chinese language and another thing is that I also like fantasy video games, western movies and western/fantasy shows. Something that resonates from my life and scholar experience with the two artworks is that I like the nature of the mountains and of new things so when I saw the backgrounds of the artworks I was satisfied with Tahe backgrounds of the artworks. Hopefully people will try to create new things and not be afraid that their ideas might get rejected and they will be able to create whatever they want without any worries of what society thinks.