Art
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End
Ghada Amer's exhibit "Love Has No End." was at Brooklyn Museum during April. This art is made of acrylic, embroidery, and gel medium on canvas, and it is very bright and modern to look at. The artist, born in Egypt in 1963, calls herself an artist, but she really can do sculpture, and she uses embroidery, a needle art, in her work, too. In Red Diagonales, this work looks like a big red cloud is raining (or crying) down on the canvas, and the colors behind the rain make it have more impact and sharpness. Her works all use a lot of bright color and interesting design, and she uses embroidery in almost all of them, which is very different and unique to her art. It is like she is using two different kinds of art to show women and women's issues in a very traditional female art - needlework, but in a very untraditional way. Her art is modern, but it can be traditional, too, because of the embroidery.
Another famous feminist work in Brooklyn is "The Dinner Party" by Judy Chicago. It is a permanent exhibit in the Elizabeth a. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and it is very different from Amer's work. This is more like a presentation, where there are 39 places to sit, and each place represents a different woman from history. This is an important work because it recognizes women and their accomplishments, and it is permanent, so many people will get to experience and enjoy it. It is a very big piece, and it is hard to really comprehend it at first. Sometimes, it does not seem like art, because it is just setting a table, but you can see that a lot of work went into it, and that the artist thought a lot about the colors, the textures, and how to present each woman. The table runners also have embroidery, which ties them into Amer's work, but this seems much more traditional, because it uses items familiar to many women - table settings, but it uses them in a new way, as art. Amer's work is very modern, and does not seem to have so much to do with women as Chicago's work, which clearly does.
