Today’s visit with Julia Jacquette was an all around amazing experience. I expected nothing less… After our brief tour of the exhibit on Monday morning, I immediately fell in love with her style of painting and play, and I\u00a0knew that having the opportunity to chat with her would provide interesting context and information.<\/p>\n
I particularly enjoyed Julia’s comments on her two large murals. She described the larger frames of work they were taken from — a J.Crew magazine spread and an ad for\u00a0some sort of beach resort. She explained how each mural is simply a zoomed in “piece” of the larger advertisements. This context makes the abstraction all the more interesting, as someone in our class pointed out, it could critique\u00a0the already “abstract” world\u00a0of advertising. Personally, her close attention to the behavior of water and her\u00a0way of\u00a0depicting the colors of the water\u00a0was my favorite part. She drew the water in a way that shows each color\u00a0broken down to its\u00a0exact location. The greens and whites of the water are separated out from the blues, making it it a hypnotic mixture of shapes.<\/p>\n
Julia’s\u00a0open mindedness to our interpretations of the two pieces was inspiring to witness. While it is not the larger lesson that I learned from our visit today, I did walk away from the discussion feeling empowered to search for little intricacies and details in all areas\u00a0of art and life. Sometimes it is the tiniest, most obscure feature that can be the most beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today’s visit with Julia Jacquette was an all around amazing experience. I expected nothing less… After our brief tour of the exhibit on Monday morning, I immediately fell in love with her style of painting and play, and I\u00a0knew that having the opportunity to chat with her would provide interesting context and information. I particularly … <\/p>\n