Presentation- Hybridization

Well, we finally got the presentation finished and presented to the class. Overall it went well. There are some things we could have done differently like allowing the class to have more time to respond to the questions we were asking about that specific work. Making the connection between hybridization to the artists work should have been done more frequently. As well as for me to make better eye contact and to speak up a little louder.

A few changes occurred which I am happy about. Our artists stayed the same : Faith Ringgold and Robert Rauschenberg but our theme changed to hybridization. We felt the artist had a better connection with this theme then juxtaposition. 

We started off with asking what hybridization meant to the students and we made an example of a hybrid car where it uses both gas and electric. We then gave the definition which was: mixing diverse cultural influences into a single artwork. We explained what Barrett's principles we used ( using narratives and mix media) because we felt they related to our artists. After, we showed a picture of both artists and finally getting into the art works and questions. 

• Our first image was by Faith Ringgold, Who's afraid of Aunt Jemima?

• Second image: The Flag is Bleeding by Faith Ringgold

• Third image: Signs by Robert Rauschenberg

• Forth image: Hot Shot by Robert Rauschenberg

The first image was my turn to present. I asked "What do you see?" "What colors, shapes, textures do you notice?" "Do you think it tells a story?" 

• bright primary colors resemble African American cultural colors
• shapes provided is the style of traditional African American quilts
• quilts were important to faith, it was a common interest with her and her mother. Before her mother passed away, she taught faith how to quilt.
• story of the image: grandma and grandpa Blakely buy their way out of slavery, set up a family business, migrate to Harlem and serve in the armed forces in Korea, all while to ensure that each generation finds itself an improved circumstance.
• the four generations work together to be unified and bring peace to the future to each generation

For the third image I asked "What figures do you see?" "What's the relationship between all of these figures?" "Overall, what is Rauschenberg making a statement about?" 

• figures: wounded American soldiers in Vietnam, JFK, Robert Kennedy, Janice Joplin at a concert, Martin Luther King in his casket, Buzz Aldrin in space suit. In his visor reflects the moons surface, the lunar module and Armstrong walking on the moon.
• relationship: is the time period, it was the present time when this was created.
• opposites such as peace and war coming together as one
• he illustrates popular cultural, iconography to capture the tragedies of the 60's.

We allowed some time for students to gather their thoughts and answers before telling them the answers based on my research.