We El Anatsui Analysis
Let's take for example the feeling of being scared, we often experience fear without even being fully aware of it. Let’s say, one has a fear of heights, this fear can only be explained by the fear of depth, the act of looking down and seeing land deeper than your reach is the reason why you feel you are on a higher surface. Now the fear of height is caused (often) by the thought, ‘what if I fall down?’ If you fall down, it will either cause you injury or you will die. And so the fear of height is actually the fear of pain or death.
Now fear of pain is also something we experience more often than we think we do. For example every time we see a cactus, or a nail, or a broken piece of glass, or anything that is extremely sharp or hot etc, We …show more content…
One of his most acclaimed works is ‘Gli’ which means a wall. This wall is a collage of old beer bottle caps, and other metal wastes, or as he says ‘things that the earth throws up’ suspended from the ceiling. Visually it looks like a fabric stretched out that has these wrinkles that visually make it look weak and something that might collapse anytime. He comments visually on the metaphors of the current global environmental situation. Materially, the caps and collars speak of their environmental unfriendly past. That not only narrates the essence of the artwork and the comment of disgust on our waste management system but also of our veiled lifestyle choices and ignorant habits. Very subtly he has been able to explain this complexity of ideas and opinions, and may I say, reality into big works that overpowers and forces us to reconsider our methods of living. Or at least pay attention to them. While showing us this picture he evokes multiple sentiments in the viewers, anger, disgust, sorrow and fear amongst the rest and makes us feel guilty at the same time. Art is not always made to evoke emotion, not every artist aims at that. But Natya Shastra is one of the most historic books on art, and it does talk about emotions and sentiments, Bhaavas and Rasas. And how whenever there is a human involved, there is an emotion involved. I wonder, if there is no one stimuli for any one emotion, or if there is no one experience and expression of any 0ne emotion, is there anything, native to that emotion? A core? The
Now fear of pain is also something we experience more often than we think we do. For example every time we see a cactus, or a nail, or a broken piece of glass, or anything that is extremely sharp or hot etc, We …show more content…
One of his most acclaimed works is ‘Gli’ which means a wall. This wall is a collage of old beer bottle caps, and other metal wastes, or as he says ‘things that the earth throws up’ suspended from the ceiling. Visually it looks like a fabric stretched out that has these wrinkles that visually make it look weak and something that might collapse anytime. He comments visually on the metaphors of the current global environmental situation. Materially, the caps and collars speak of their environmental unfriendly past. That not only narrates the essence of the artwork and the comment of disgust on our waste management system but also of our veiled lifestyle choices and ignorant habits. Very subtly he has been able to explain this complexity of ideas and opinions, and may I say, reality into big works that overpowers and forces us to reconsider our methods of living. Or at least pay attention to them. While showing us this picture he evokes multiple sentiments in the viewers, anger, disgust, sorrow and fear amongst the rest and makes us feel guilty at the same time. Art is not always made to evoke emotion, not every artist aims at that. But Natya Shastra is one of the most historic books on art, and it does talk about emotions and sentiments, Bhaavas and Rasas. And how whenever there is a human involved, there is an emotion involved. I wonder, if there is no one stimuli for any one emotion, or if there is no one experience and expression of any 0ne emotion, is there anything, native to that emotion? A core? The