Five Day Forecast
My essay is on the piece "Five Day Forecast", 1991, second edition, by Lorna Simpson. The piece was originally done by Simpson in 1988 using a Polaroid camera. This second edition was done in 1991 and she shot with a large format 4 x 5 camera with silver gelatin print on paper. The size is 622 x 2464 mm. This essay is an analysis and interpretation of Five Day Forecast using methodology(1) as follows:
Description: pure description of the object without value, judgments, analysis, or interpretation.
Analysis: determining what the features suggest and deciding why the artist. used such features to convey specific ideas.
Interpretation: establishing the broader context for this type of art.
Judgment: Judging a piece of work means giving it rank in relation to other. works and of course considering a very important aspect of the visual arts; its. originality.
Discription
The piece comprises five large scale black and white framed photographs aligned horizontally with fifteen black plaques with white engraving - five plaques, each centered above a photograph, and ten plaques aligned horizontally below the photograph. Each plaque has a single word engraved.
The five black and white photos are of a black women in a white shift that is wrinkled vertically due to the crossing of her arms and horizontally for which I will interpret later in this essay. Her head and legs are cropped from the photograph. Her arms are crossed. She is facing the camera. Her neck doesn 't appear to be twisted, therefore I assume that her face is oriented directly towards the camera.
The words engraved in the plaques above are from left to right, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The words below engraved in the plaques below are from left to right:
misdescription misinformation misidentify misdiagnose misfunction mistranscribe misremember misguage misconstrue mistranslate The piece reproduction appears as if it is hung on
Description: pure description of the object without value, judgments, analysis, or interpretation.
Analysis: determining what the features suggest and deciding why the artist. used such features to convey specific ideas.
Interpretation: establishing the broader context for this type of art.
Judgment: Judging a piece of work means giving it rank in relation to other. works and of course considering a very important aspect of the visual arts; its. originality.
Discription
The piece comprises five large scale black and white framed photographs aligned horizontally with fifteen black plaques with white engraving - five plaques, each centered above a photograph, and ten plaques aligned horizontally below the photograph. Each plaque has a single word engraved.
The five black and white photos are of a black women in a white shift that is wrinkled vertically due to the crossing of her arms and horizontally for which I will interpret later in this essay. Her head and legs are cropped from the photograph. Her arms are crossed. She is facing the camera. Her neck doesn 't appear to be twisted, therefore I assume that her face is oriented directly towards the camera.
The words engraved in the plaques above are from left to right, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The words below engraved in the plaques below are from left to right:
misdescription misinformation misidentify misdiagnose misfunction mistranscribe misremember misguage misconstrue mistranslate The piece reproduction appears as if it is hung on
References: 1. Barrett, Terry. (1994) Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company. 2. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199805/where-bias-begins-the-truth- about- stereotypes 3. http://nwhp.org/whm/simpson_bio.php 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/arts/design/02lorn.html?pagewanted=all 5. http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2010/03/the-colorful-canvas-files-lorna-simpson/