The message behind “Darkytown Rebellion” gives an inner view to the lives of the African American culture and their difficulties from the past due to several stereotypes. Overall the key message that is being developed within this artwork is the continual slavery where the author forces the audience to take another look at her generations that are evidently being overlooked and forgotten. This artwork takes all the stereotypes of slavery of the African Americans and replaces them with the reality and the truth behind the topic (Art21, 2017). Considering all the silhouettes individually can represent and portray the difficult life of the African Americans living through cruel generations of slavery. Some of the people within the silhouettes
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This artwork is undoubtedly vast in size as it expands across a site-specific location of Palace of Justice in Bogotá. In this piece, several wooden chairs hang from the roof of the building in which they expand across the corner, developing the depth creating a significant appearance of it great size. These chairs are made from a common, everyday domestic material however, when put out of place it tends to bring shock to the audience. Overall this piece’s overall size emphasises the meaning as it creates a bigger picture that the audience must take in suddenly (MCA, 2015). Using materials and the space that Salcedo uses can thoroughly develop and portray the message and elements of a …show more content…
Each of the elements within the artwork has an input that emphasises the meaning, allowing it to portray the message that is received by the audience’s perceptions and views. There is a total of 1,550 wooden chairs which represents all the deaths of those in the Civil War in Columbia. Using everyday household item and taking in the position of an unnatural location gives the idea of emptiness and the sense that it doesn’t belong. This, overall, can represent the chaos and the absence due to the mass graves of those who went to war and are now anonymous to all in society. Salcedo is interested in the elements of the immense difference between the powerful and the powerless which is reflective of those victims who experienced violence and forced migration. “What I’m trying to get out of these pieces is that element that is common in all of us,” Salcedo explains. “And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So, I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences” (Salcedo, 2012). The location in which this artwork is presented establishes and emphasises the meaning due to the experiences that Salcedo has personally encountered. “A horrific clash between
This artwork is undoubtedly vast in size as it expands across a site-specific location of Palace of Justice in Bogotá. In this piece, several wooden chairs hang from the roof of the building in which they expand across the corner, developing the depth creating a significant appearance of it great size. These chairs are made from a common, everyday domestic material however, when put out of place it tends to bring shock to the audience. Overall this piece’s overall size emphasises the meaning as it creates a bigger picture that the audience must take in suddenly (MCA, 2015). Using materials and the space that Salcedo uses can thoroughly develop and portray the message and elements of a …show more content…
Each of the elements within the artwork has an input that emphasises the meaning, allowing it to portray the message that is received by the audience’s perceptions and views. There is a total of 1,550 wooden chairs which represents all the deaths of those in the Civil War in Columbia. Using everyday household item and taking in the position of an unnatural location gives the idea of emptiness and the sense that it doesn’t belong. This, overall, can represent the chaos and the absence due to the mass graves of those who went to war and are now anonymous to all in society. Salcedo is interested in the elements of the immense difference between the powerful and the powerless which is reflective of those victims who experienced violence and forced migration. “What I’m trying to get out of these pieces is that element that is common in all of us,” Salcedo explains. “And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So, I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences” (Salcedo, 2012). The location in which this artwork is presented establishes and emphasises the meaning due to the experiences that Salcedo has personally encountered. “A horrific clash between