Art Analysis

While I wandered the Quick Center for the Arts on Wednesday I seen a lot of beautiful art pieces that caught my eye, but the one thing that caught my attention the most was a piece made by Mckenzie Huntsberger. A 7th grader at Oswayo Valley Middle School. He made the piece with pen and marker.

Mckenzie Huntsberger's art work

In the art piece, is a boy standing under the moon light with a black hoodie and his face shadowed out. Everything is shaded in with a black pen and he light beams are dotted in with a black marker. The artist is creative, seems dark minded, and depressed. I say this because I think the piece is gloomy and sad.

Trayvon Martin

When I saw this piece it immediately reminded me of Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old African American teenager from Florida who was shot and killed by a white man named George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012. In one of Trayvon's photo shown on nation television, he was wearing a hoodie similar to the one Mckenzie Huntsberger drew. The piece reminded me of him because the boy in the art piece seems alone and innocent just like Trayvon was when he was shot. When I think of the shooting of Trayvon Martin I see the piece Mckenzie made. The piece makes me feel sad because of this.

His artwork shapes my understanding of reality because I can see my own perception of the world. Art uses shapes, colors, and lines to create meaning. The little boy who made this piece probably wasn't thinking of Trayvon Martin when he made this. He could have been told to make this by his teacher or maybe he made it to symbolize himself or someone else. Because I experienced, seen, and been through different things, I see his art work as something else.