The Dinner Party By Judy Chicago

Taking a humanities class, I didn’t know what to expect or learn that would benefit me in life. Professor Danquah humanities class changed the way that I view artist’s artwork completely. The one thing that I learn mainly that will always stick with me is that, behind every artists artwork has a meaning. For example the dinner party by Judy Chicago. By looking at the artwork people automatically thinks “that’s nasty”, or laugh. The meaning behind the art is that, it celebrates the achievements of women throughout history. It is also inspired by the women’s movement and rebelling against the male-dominated art scene of the 1960s. I now know the four traditional rules of an artist. First one is to record the world or compile a visual record of

The background about that artwork is that, the metaphor of a fallen leaf symbolize a life loss. The leaves also has a field of intense color. Jane Hammond wanted people first expressions to encounter with the beauty of nature and only after connects it with the loss of a fallen soldiers. I really do not have a less favorite work of art, only because out of every artwork that was taught in class that was not quiet understanding by looking at it, all of the artworks still had powerful meaning that draws you in to want to know about the artist themselves. But I do want to mention another one of my favorite artworks since I do not have a less favorite one. The second artists by the name of Andres Serrano called Piss Christ, had made me feel angry towards the artist because of the way that the artwork was displayed in. Finding out that Andres Serrano peed inside of a container and put a statue of Jesus Christ inside of the pee and took a picture of it, made people send death threats. Personally I wanted to find him and punch him in his throat because I found that to be so disrespectful. But later on finding out the reason as to why he did it made me change my decision about punching him in his throat. Piss Christ is about Jesus followers; not Jesus. The urine is an anti-thesis of spiritual cleansing. The yellow tones which is the pee symbolizes dignity, and the red