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Themes covered in her art have been described as "cultural histories of women's labour in building homes, in motherhood, cooking and teaching." [ 2 ] She has worked with various mediums, including oil and acrylic, found art, recycled materials, pottery, paper and cloth.
Many of her most recent environmentalist artworks have found objects embedded into the canvas while the acrylic paint is still wet. [1] [2] [12] [13] Phong has said that she tries to emulate the beauty of nature and humans' relationship to its destruction in her work. She also explores the theme of human beings as a part of nature in her work.
Art made of commodity materials sometimes uses found objects made of plastic. [3] [4] Plastic containers are useful in papier-mâché for building frames.[5]Environmental artists are using salvaged beach plastic to create art as a means of bringing awareness of plastic pollution in Earth's oceans.
Hill is known most for her stylized, acrylic paintings of historical and cultural scenes, employed a limited palette of neutrals, oranges, reds, and purples. Painting with watercolors, she let negative space define foliage, mounds, or other landscape features.
Acrylic resin, a group of related thermoplastic or thermosetting plastic substances; Acrylic fiber, a synthetic fiber of polyacrylonitrile; Acrylic paint, fast-drying paint containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion; Poly(methyl methacrylate), also known as acrylic glass or Plexiglass, a transparent thermoplastic
The term “found photography” can also refer more broadly to art that incorporates found photos as material, assembling or transforming them in some fashion. For example, Stephen Bull, in his introduction to A Companion to Photography , describes artist Joachim Schmid as “a key practitioner of ‘found photography.’” [ 7 ]
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Nadema Ivania Agard, who also uses the name Winyan Luta Red Woman, [1] (born September 10, 1948) is an American visual artist, educator, illustrator, poet, storyteller, museum professional and an activist for Indigenous rights.