Myths, home and self-portrait assignment

After visiting the Newark Museum and looking through the "Wendy Red Star and Kambui Olujimi" exhibition, I have found that these pieces were extraordinaire! I was able to grasp the history and culture of these paintings. Firstly, myth is a folklore genre consisting of narrative The first painting that will be presented caught my eye from its bright colors. At first, it looked like an illusion but looking more into it, it reveals the theme and culture behind it. As seen, it was a piece with family portraits with their faces unraveled with sadness. From the description, it was said that these three were each other's prom dates which explain the upsetting faces. Pushing that aside, the next one is very similar to the first one but it speaks out more. Now, this shows the theme and culture more clearly as seen in the photos. This connects to identity, culture, and mythology because reveals a story of their culture and the rainbow arrows that go in a circle might represent as a timeline. The clothing of each character reveals the culture and it is clear to say it the piece is a precious object in the Indian communities.  In the description, it says, "For Red Star these works are in part a response to an ongoing crisis of authenticity that she has often faced as a native person, and the pressure from outsiders to demonstrate her authenticity." These paintings were called, "Family Portraits - Two Prom Dates 2011" and Family Portrait - Walla, Marlon, Doonie, 2011". This next piece is called, "Four Seasons". It has four different pieces that joined together to make one piece. This shows the taste of mythology and culture since it stories between the four seasons. The environment between each is really distinguishable and easily seen. It carries a message from each and the animal placement is perfectly aligned with the main character. Not just the environment and the animals, the position and posture from the main character reveals a lot about the piece. It shows the culture of how she was is a Native Indian from the way she is sitting in between each season. These pieces explain the nature between the land and the human soul. Although I did not take pictures of the tipis, but it was nice to see and feel how it is to be in one. The projector that was portraying pictures amongst the walls was really emerging and felt like I was in the moment in the time era.

On the other hand, the Kambui Oluijmi works are quite similar to Red Star's when it comes to telling a story. The film that we had to watch (I forgot the title of the film) was pretty outstanding. Although it was pretty confusing it was a fun experience. There could have many ways to interpret it because it was really open-ended. It was hard to keep up with the narration and the animation on the screen because they were explaining two different stories. One of my theories is that the guy was taking a crystal rock and could be inferred as drugs which would explain the trippy animation and confusing narration. In the end, I had enjoyed my visit to the Newark Musuem and I would gladly go again if I had too.