Response To Carole Feuerman's Dress Rehearsal And Splash

My response to Carole Feuerman’s pieces Dress Rehearsal and Splash at first was overall shock because it looked like that pieces of the body where physically cut off of a live person’s body and put on display as art. The reasoning for being drawn to this particular piece of art was because of the substantial amount of detail that this artist put into these three distinct pieces; the life like feel of the artwork was astounding. From my close viewing of the work of art, I realized how much time and hard work Carole had to put into these pieces to make them look like it was an actual woman’s leg, hands and face. Carole Feuerman made the Dress Rehearsal and Splash sculptures in 2009, using resin and oil materials, and is currently located in the Amarillo Museum of Art.
The artist uses two different types of methods for displaying her art. First, one of the three pieces is set up on the far right of the wall so it doesn’t block the other two pieces; also, it is placed on a small rectangular pedestal so that the very bottom of the sculpture can be
These pieces were made somewhere in America, but doesn’t give an exact location on where they were made. Her work of arts socially sends the message that women in everyday life are viewed as beautiful objects, but people might now understand what they go through to become the talent that they are. Most of Feuerman’s sculptures are about women and the empowerment of women in their natural essence. She believes in having her sculptures be represented with natural beauty and grace within the body, but most of her artwork is cut off at certain spots to make the audience truly look at the object she is depicting. The use of naturalism in all of her artworks is her typical style; even though she does use other elements such as bronze and marble, it still shows the realistic points of a real person’s