Public Art Experience essay
Experiencing Public Art For this essay, you will choose a piece of public artwork that interests you. This should be an artwork you have seen at least once in person so that you can give your description of what you felt when you experienced it. Take a photograph of the artwork and include it with this assignment. If you are unable to take a photograph, locate one from the Internet. Include the photograph of the artwork on the second page by pasting the image into a Word document along with your written essay. Address the following points in your essay: Title, artist, and location of the artwork. How would you describe the artwork? Why it is there, and what (or who) does it represent? What was the source of the funding for this artwork? How did you feel about it the first time you saw it? Do you feel the same about it now? Example paper: Click here to view an example essay. This example paper is for a similar assignment. It shows the APA formatting described below. Please notice that it has an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. This example will show you formatting and the level of detail required. However, your essay must meet the criteria listed above. Formatting: Your essay must be at least two pages in length, not including a title and reference page. Use Times New Roman 12- point font. Double space all lines, and indent the first line of each paragraph. Place your title centered at the top of the first page. Your last page will have the word References centered at the top. All sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and included on the reference page. When you use a statement from a source, you need to credit the source in this format (last name of author(s), year) at the end of the sentence. For direct quotes, use quotation marks and add the page number to your citation. An example of a citation for a quotation from page 5 of our textbook would be (Frank, 2014, p. 5). Additionally, any sources cited in the text of your essay must also be included on the reference page. If you would like additional assistance with APA, click here to view the Waldorf Citation Guide. Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below .
Reference: Frank, P. (2014). Prebles’ artforms: An introduction to the visual arts (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
I want to use such type like art work deceased stuff, such as Bodies Exhibition, example is below
Incase you`ve been to southeast Georgia along the coast, you will immediately notice
the trees. Large majestic oaks, some of them dating back hundreds of years, can be found at
every turn: on streets, in the middle of streets, and in hundreds of private yards. The Spanish
moss that drips from their enormous and invasive limbs gives everything a mystical and ghostly
quality, particuliarly when the fog rolls in off the ocean. It is in this location that artist Keith
Jennings has carved dozens of sculputres into ancient Water Oaks.
Jennings began his sculpting career in his backyard out of boredom in the early 1980s
(Gallivance, 2012). Using just a few simple hand tools, he was able to create a facial image,
both figurative and respresentational, that was recognizably human yet spritlike in essence. Of
the twenty-odd sculptures that can be found on St. Simons Island and on the mainland, most
reside on private property and were commissioned by the property owners. The handful of
permanent public sculptures that exist were donated by the artist himself.
Each sculpture is organic to its specific tree: embedded in, emerging from, or nestled into
naturally. The artist uses the natural repetition of the tree’s shape and natural lighting to create
depth and to bring each face to life. The craggly, worn suface of the trees give the faces an
ancient and wise look. Most of works are between one and two feet in diameter. While, legend
has it, the faces are meant to memorialize the countless faces of sailors lost at sea, the artist
argues otherwise, “I don’t have that much to do with it. The wood speaks to you, ya know?”
(Pinar, 2013).
Of the series, there is only one female, The Lady of Belle Point. Unlike her brothers, she
is over two feet long and less than 10 inches wide. She resides in the yard of a female ship
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captain. The willowy Lady has a very siren-like quality and reminds me of Botticelli’s Birth of
Venus (Bottecelli, 1480).
People do not necessarily come from all over to see the tree spirits. However, when
people come to southeast Georgia, they will seek them out. Once you see one, you find yourself
anxious to see another, and it is almost like a treasure hunt to discover a new one. I was
mesmerized by these sculptures when I first saw them. Each one is sculpted to fit the specific
characteristics present in the tree, and each sculpture is unique. Every time I see them, I see more
intricacies in the details and imagine more about the spirit that is represented.
Unfortunately, there is no public document that details and catalogs the Tree Spirits.
Their titles are not posted, and their dates are unpublished. Jennings does not have a Facebook
page, and the artist’s website has been down for over six months according to the Golden Isles
Visitor Center (2013). Rumor has it that Jennings will be back in St. Simons sometime in the
coming months—hopefully to add another spirit to one of our majestic oaks.
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(Jennings, n.d.-d) (Jennings, n.d.-c)
(Jennings, n.d.-e) (Jennings, n.d.-a)
(Jennings, n.d.-b)
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References
Botticelli, S. (1480). Birth of Venus [Tempera on canvas]. Retrieved from
http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of-venus-by-sandro-botticelli/
Golden Isles Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. (2013). The tree spirits of St. Simons Island.
Retrieved from http://www.goldenisles.com/lore-legends-of-golden-isles/tree-spirits-of-
st-simons-island
Jennings, K. (n.d.-a). The lady of Belle Point [Carved Water Oak]. Retrieved from
Tree Spirits of St. Simons: The Other Woman
Jennings, K. (n.d.-b). Untitled tree spirit 1 [Carved Water Oak ]. Retrieved from
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Jennings, K. (n.d.-c). Untitled tree spirit 2 [Carved Water Oak ]. Retrieved from
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Jennings, K. (n.d.-d). Untitled tree spirit 3 [Carved Water Oak ]. Retrieved from
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Jennings, K. (n.d.-e). Untitled tree spirit 4 [Carved Water Oak ]. Retrieved from
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Pinar. (2013). Sculptor releases mysterious spirits already in trees. Retrieved from
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/keith-jennings-spirit-trees
http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of-venus-by-sandro-botticelli/
http://www.goldenisles.com/lore-legends-of-golden-isles/tree-spirits-of-st-simons-island
http://www.goldenisles.com/lore-legends-of-golden-isles/tree-spirits-of-st-simons-island
Tree Spirits of St. Simons: The Other Woman
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island: The Search Continues
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/keith-jennings-spirit-trees
Reference: Frank, P. (2014). Prebles’ artforms: An introduction to the visual arts (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
I want to use such type like art work deceased stuff, such as Bodies Exhibition, example is below
