Blue Corn Room Analysis

I think that Artemisia work have an electric sense of narrative drama, bringing out image that have unique perspective both celebrating and humanized strong women characters. As Judith decapitates Holofernes, to save the Jewish people, her brow is furrowed in concentration, Judith and her maid forearms are tensed, and blood spurts wildly from Holofernes neck. The startling naturalism of the scenes owes much to the influence of Caravaggio, Artemisia followed his technique of painting directly from life, the use of sharp contrasts color (dark and light) and size ( between the subjects) and using of tenebrism dark style manner with shadow in the background creating shallow space highlighting figures in the foreground. But the power of the scene, however, is all her own such as using convergence line.
Artemisia also use foreshortening technique to draw out Holofernes body with bending knees and elbows. Jolene Rickard work on the Blue Corn Room, express the negative and positive effects of modern technology on the Tuscarora Community in particular the hydroelectric project that took the third of her community’s land. The plans by New York Power Authority to flood one fifth of their reservation, there was a strong woman activism movement against this plan. The most prominent displayed by woman activism was on the day, they sat down in front of the arriving bulldozers and their successive assaults on policemen who tried to remove them. The story behind this installation by Rickard is similar to Artemisia (Judith Decapitating Holofernes) they both bring out images that humanized strong woman characters in their arts. Rickard installation was in a very dark space, follows Artemisia tenebrism dark style. The very dark space of the room creates shallow space highlighting white box frame pictures in the room to