Art Analysis: Orange Crush By Linda Hain
Art of Observation
A. Title: Orange Crush, Author: Linda Hains, Location: 3rd floor of the Library A1) In this piece, different colors and shapes can be seen on a 3-Dimensional pickaxe. The colors vary from red to blue to yellow and the shapes resemble plant life that is native to the desert. A2) Linda Hains’s axe is titled “Orange Crush” and is located in the 3rd floor of the library right next to another axe. This piece is in honor of the University’s Centennial Anniversary and is labeled as a Centennial Pickaxe. In a lower description, it states that twelve artists used blank canvas pickaxes in order to portray the theme of “ prosperity for all emanates from prosperity of mind.” These axes were to be auctioned off to benefit the …show more content…
This piece is in honor of the University’s Centennial Anniversary and is labeled as a Centennial Pickaxe. In a lower description, it states that twelve artists used blank canvas pickaxes in order to portray the theme of “ Prosperity for all emanates from prosperity of mind.” These axes were to be auctioned off to benefit the R.C. Morgan Scholarship fund in the fall of 2014 and all axes are in display around campus. Margarita Cabrera’s axe is located in the 3rd floor of the library and is titled “Deep Mined”. B3) With a pickaxe made of books where each book represents a form of a student, the author is portraying that like the axe, the University is made of the cultural, linguistic, and behavioral education that each student brings to the campus through searching for a higher education. The butterflies that are cut out of the books, and sprinkled around the axe as if they are moving away from the axe, are meant to represent how the schools combined knowledge sprinkles away from us into the world as each students begins their journey after graduating from the University of Texas at El
A. Title: Orange Crush, Author: Linda Hains, Location: 3rd floor of the Library A1) In this piece, different colors and shapes can be seen on a 3-Dimensional pickaxe. The colors vary from red to blue to yellow and the shapes resemble plant life that is native to the desert. A2) Linda Hains’s axe is titled “Orange Crush” and is located in the 3rd floor of the library right next to another axe. This piece is in honor of the University’s Centennial Anniversary and is labeled as a Centennial Pickaxe. In a lower description, it states that twelve artists used blank canvas pickaxes in order to portray the theme of “ prosperity for all emanates from prosperity of mind.” These axes were to be auctioned off to benefit the …show more content…
This piece is in honor of the University’s Centennial Anniversary and is labeled as a Centennial Pickaxe. In a lower description, it states that twelve artists used blank canvas pickaxes in order to portray the theme of “ Prosperity for all emanates from prosperity of mind.” These axes were to be auctioned off to benefit the R.C. Morgan Scholarship fund in the fall of 2014 and all axes are in display around campus. Margarita Cabrera’s axe is located in the 3rd floor of the library and is titled “Deep Mined”. B3) With a pickaxe made of books where each book represents a form of a student, the author is portraying that like the axe, the University is made of the cultural, linguistic, and behavioral education that each student brings to the campus through searching for a higher education. The butterflies that are cut out of the books, and sprinkled around the axe as if they are moving away from the axe, are meant to represent how the schools combined knowledge sprinkles away from us into the world as each students begins their journey after graduating from the University of Texas at El