Freedom Cloth
Assemblage
2005
218.0 x 172.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
쏜튼 다이얼 주니어 (1952 –)
Thornton Dial Jr.: 기념비적인 작품을 통해 사회적 및 정치적 문제를 다루는 대담한 어셈블리지 예술가. 인종, 역사, 자연을 탐구하는 그의 강렬한 예술 세계를 만나보세요.
Souls Grown Deep (애틀랜타, 미국)
Souls Grown Deep를 탐험해 보세요: 미국 남부 흑인 예술의 향연! 지스 벤(Gee's Bend) 퀼트, 아상블라주 예술, 그리고 Thornton Dial과 Lonnie Holley 같은 예술가들의 영감을 주는 이야기를 만나보세요.
Dial met the quilters of Gee’s Bend in 2001, just prior to the opening of their first exhibition and subsequent rise to fame. Over the next few years, he created a number of tributes to the women and their triumph over poverty and obscurity. In 2005, he created a sculptural homage titled Freedom Cloth. The piece is an assembly of bird figures with outstretched wings roosting on a giant mound of wire, fabric, artificial flowers, and plant fronds. The birds, fashioned from rags, symbolize the women of the community whose transformation of castaway cloth into quilts afforded them expressive freedom and, more recently, the respect and admiration of a wide public audience. With that recognition there also came new social status, economic opportunities, and financial independence. Throughout Dial’s work, such birds, modeled after the bald eagle on the U.S. dollar, signify the freedom to transcend social and historical disadvantage and to aspire to the bounties of the American dream. Here, the high-soaring creatures signal not only the transcendent possibilities of old cloth, but the hope for human liberation as well.
작품 정보
- 제목: Freedom Cloth
- 작가: 쏜튼 다이얼 주니어
- 제작 연도: 2005
- 원래 크기: 218.0 x 172.0 cm
- 매체: Portrait
- 저작권 상태: 저작권 보호 중
- 소장처: Souls Grown Deep
- 제작 시기: Mature Period
- 키워드: “social justice art” , “american dream art” , freedom cloth artwork
- 색상 및 색조: Blue-Violet to Rose