Art 21 Transformation

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Transformation I watched the Art 21 episode “Transformation”. It had three parts with three different kinds of artists. The three artists were Yinka Shonibore, Cindy Shierman, and Paul McCarthy. Each of the artists had their own style of how they expressed their art. The first artist in the episode was Yinka Shonibore. He is an artist who has been paralyzed by a virus in his spine from when he was a child. Yinka has slowly been getting better. It mostly showed that he did costumes and photography, but he also draws, paints, and makes films. He even received the service in art award for one of his films. In the episode it showed that he has moved on to photography and does a lot of self portraits. Most of which are set to look like old time paintings of upper class people. Yinka Shonibore came off as odd to me, but I thought it was neat that he has came from being paralyzed to making art. The second artists in the “Transformation” episode was Cindy Shierman. She was a photographer who took mainly self portraits. She said she liked taking photographs of herself looking like different characters. She never named her portraits so that everyone had a chance to see it differently. The reason she took pictures of herself was because of her “Cindy Book” she had, which was all family snapshots where she would circle herself in the photograph. In the episode it showed that she has been slowly taking herself out of the pictures and shooting complete still life. To me Cindy seemed a little too into herself and it was kind of weird that she only took photographs of herself dressed up in different ways. Lastly in the episode was Paul McCarthy. He was into film and sculpting. He referred to himself as a “class clown” which is why he is so odd and spontaneous. In the episode he said that his art does not have a face, but it is a space where you can see it from all sides. In

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