Purdy response

I enjoyed and felt a connection to Moriah Purdy’s examples of visual art because I grew up reading books by Ellen Hopkins. In these books, Hopkins tells her stories through the use of poems and arranges them in different ways on every page. Each way is meant to represent in some way the words being said, which in most cases are dramatic or sad because her books are about struggles teenagers go through in different social and economic settings.

            Some of the examples I found most compelling of Purdy’s examples were the “au pair” because at first when I looked at it I didn’t understand it, therefore I didn’t enjoy looking at it. When she explained the fact that each line, in different arrangements, is supposed to be a line of a poem in itself, rather than the aesthetic picture only, it made more sense to me.

The second example I liked was the piece by Kevin McPhearson Eckoff of the face made out of words because it reminded me of an artist who does something similar to this, but through the use of stamps. His name is Federico Piettrella.

Here is the article to view his art:

 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/new-date-stamp-pointillism-paintings-by-federico-pietrella/