Nelson Art Gallery
This gallery got me thinking a lot about the way people made blankets and clothes in the past. I'm talking about the past when there were no fashion statements, or culture shocking garments. It was about wearing something comfortable that adapted people to the weather. No one cared about the way someone looked by what they would wear. The hand labor that made those people create quilts or clothes was a skill that I'm sure a lot of you still admire. I also thought about the colors that were being used. I saw a lot of red, green, and brown. My guessing was that those colors were popular in the past since that was probably the most common colors that people saw around them. The green from the leaves, brown from the plants and dirt, and red from blood or tongue. Finally I also admired the great amount of Gestalt that these quilts had. All those colors unified the piece. The weaving, placing, and mounting of the quilts. This exhibition was probably one that I would say had the most historical background I have gotten from. By that I mean, I enjoyed tracing it back to history by looking at the different quilts.
Image source:
Sharecropper's Masterpiece
African American Quilts
September 24 - December 13, 2009
Gestalt:
| a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole. |
| 2. | an instance or example of such a unified whole. Resource: Dictionary.com |
