Sabrina is an incredibly talented sculptor, she is able to emote joy and pain so easily in her figures and completely brings them to life in their body language and emoted faces. Her style actually reminds me of the film mirror mask a little, very much miniature worlds and a varied depth in her characters. As I am making figurative sculptures, I chose her as a relevant artist as she manages to make art that is doll-like but still accepted as art, and not craft. I believe that is because there is both a detail in her work that is beautiful and ornate, and also a darkness that keeps it from being cliche. I truly wish I had more fabrication experience, as Id love to be able to make ornate clothing for my sculptures, but as I attempted in the raised beds project this was not my strength. I like that she works with clay, I am unfortunately unable to do this due to the corona virus shutting down my university but I would've loved to experiment with earth clay sculptures. I think her style is fantastic, I love her use of scale, texture and composition and I find it so interesting that she manages to land in this very niche genre of art so well. Its almost kitsch but its also not because its not cutesy, but its not quite art in the way that paintings are perceived to be. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/jan/28/kitsch-art-love-loathe-jonathan-jones#:~:text=The%20Oxford%20art%20dictionary%20hedges,or%20knowing%20way%20...%22&text=In%20fact%2C%20kitsch%20started%20out,the%20entirety%20of%20popular%20culture. "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." ... In fact, kitsch started out as a dismissive term for the entirety of popular culture." https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/02/21/a-fine-line-between-art-and-kitsch/ "For half a century or more Greenberg’s view was orthodoxy. To be a modern artist you had to turn your back on the literal image, since the very attempt to produce traditional art would turn oil-paint to candy-floss and emotion to kitsch. You must go forward with the avant-garde, and forward everybody went, to the point where nobody quite knew just where he was going, and art had ceased to be something to look at and become something to think about instead. Then, in a burst of inspiration, Andy Warhol began producing Brillo Boxes. These were not figurative paintings, since they were indistinguishable from the originals. But nor were they ‘avant-garde’, since they were neither abstract squiggles, nor demolitions of reality. They were just there, with no explanation, because that was what the artist had done."
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