Week 14

The weeks reading really dove into the work of art that was the gallery experience of Concerto in black and blue. This work had a lot of controversy with it in order to figure out what the artist was trying to say by creating this exhibit. Many saying that it was political, about the blacks and blue being police. Critics may have concluded at this decisions due to the fact that the arts of this exhibit has had past work that has had similar meaning of blacks being suppressed due to police or other cultural things. Once hearing that perspective of the exhibit I could see where the colors could be representing that. However first looking at it I would had never lead to the conclusion of that. I saw the work talking more about the unknown of the ocean. Never would I have thought of it to be anything that is political or racial in any way. I think there is black art and then there is art created by black Americans. I think there is art that black artist make that is art, some of that art may be art of other black Americans, or whites or a sculpture of a piece that has no people or color at all. Black American artist that don't want their race to have any effect on the piece and how the viewer sees it. Then there is Black Art. Art the speaks for or to the black culture. Weather it be created by a black person or not but the targeted audience is still the same. I think most Black Art is created by black Americans because they have more of a connection to that type of feeling and how to relay it back to the current cultures. 

This is a painting of our former president Obama receiving his painting by Kehinde Wiley, an black American painter.  https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kehinde-wiley-s-obama-portrait-controversy-shows-americans-don-t-ncna849156