STADIA Ll
STADIA ll
JULIE MEHRETU
(2004)
Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She lives and works in New York, she operates with abstract detail in her large-scale paintings to create an architectural sense of perspective. One of her most notable piece, Stadia ll, created in 2004. The piece helped me visualize how there are different mass show two dimensions of history and how is can all be hidden in different forms at times. Her experimentation with abstraction explores the origins of lines, shapes, motion, and depth. With her layering, style, sense of chaos, patterns, and architectural methods, Mehretu’s work can be understood to explain through visual means that equates to time and movement.
Mehrutu’s designs are done on a computer and she manipulates her designs, which are then transferred, into her canvases. The images portray light in the sense that the colors are dynamic and very bright. The lines and shapes all move in the same motion and pattern to make the piece a one of kind. The piece features different lines actual lines to vertical lines. The motion is the portrait unifies the image and the message Mehrutu was trying to capture which is both spiritual and artistic.
Because Mehrutu is a modern day artist, her panting captures both history and the world we live in today. The abstract language portrayed in the image deals with today’s society as well as her spot in history. The image shows a balance between both sides of history. It also shows that society is mostly based on chaos with the different elements shown in the picture. The pattern of the different shapes, lines and swirls all show how chaotic society can be.
It’s very easy to fall in love with Stadia ll because of all the visual elements. The contrast of the image unifies the movement of colors. Looking at the piece you see a series of repetition in the rhythm of how things move and flow. The scale and proportion of the piece is what makes it so profound and
JULIE MEHRETU
(2004)
Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She lives and works in New York, she operates with abstract detail in her large-scale paintings to create an architectural sense of perspective. One of her most notable piece, Stadia ll, created in 2004. The piece helped me visualize how there are different mass show two dimensions of history and how is can all be hidden in different forms at times. Her experimentation with abstraction explores the origins of lines, shapes, motion, and depth. With her layering, style, sense of chaos, patterns, and architectural methods, Mehretu’s work can be understood to explain through visual means that equates to time and movement.
Mehrutu’s designs are done on a computer and she manipulates her designs, which are then transferred, into her canvases. The images portray light in the sense that the colors are dynamic and very bright. The lines and shapes all move in the same motion and pattern to make the piece a one of kind. The piece features different lines actual lines to vertical lines. The motion is the portrait unifies the image and the message Mehrutu was trying to capture which is both spiritual and artistic.
Because Mehrutu is a modern day artist, her panting captures both history and the world we live in today. The abstract language portrayed in the image deals with today’s society as well as her spot in history. The image shows a balance between both sides of history. It also shows that society is mostly based on chaos with the different elements shown in the picture. The pattern of the different shapes, lines and swirls all show how chaotic society can be.
It’s very easy to fall in love with Stadia ll because of all the visual elements. The contrast of the image unifies the movement of colors. Looking at the piece you see a series of repetition in the rhythm of how things move and flow. The scale and proportion of the piece is what makes it so profound and