Analysis Of Dialogue: Peace By Barbara Romain

Mulvane Art Exhibition Response Paper The piece in the exhibition “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate” that I chose to analyze is “Dialogue: Peace” by Barbara Romain. The medium she used for this artwork is acrylic paint on an unstretched canvas. This piece stood out the most because it was colorful and intriguing. This piece has a giant red peace sign that covers the full length of the green canvas. There are several words written behind and above the peace sign. Some of the words written in front of the peace sign include: our foremost, control, victory, awareness, tremendous, power, world, beauty, solidarity, genius, etc. The colors used for these words are, yellow, blue, green, and purple. There are also words behind the peace sign written
She was a co-founder and co-director of Art Options which is an interdisciplinary arts program for inner city Los Angeles teenager. Currently she is a professor in the Department of Art & Visual Design at Columbia College Hollywood and also School of Film & Television in Tarzana, California. In 1984, she was diagnosed with a retinal degenerative disease resulting in Barbara becoming legally blind. She says, “I questioned my ability to continue painting, and slowly transformed my thinking and techniques to incorporate my physical limitations as an integral part of my work. Now, I am inspired less by what I see and more by what I hear, remember, and imagine.”
I decided to compare Steele’s piece to Romains because of how similar they were. In this artwork Sara uses vibrant colors in the foreground and dark colors in the background. Like the title says, there are a bunch of vibrant colors including origami cranes and leaves coming out from the dark colors or “ashes.” Both of these pieces are similar because they both use dark and bright colors to make a point about hate by saying, guessingly, that by using colors people can arise from hate and cover it up or become better by becoming more