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Title: Kiki Smith

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Kiki Smith

Minh Ngo
Period 6

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Table of Contents

Artwork
Background
Timeline
Quotes
Materials Techniques
Elements of Art
Principle and Design
Purpose / Meaning
Works Cited

Seer Alice II, 2005
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Artwork
Woman Sitting and Thinking, 2005 8¼in. 6in.
7in.
Fingerbowl, 1997 - 6½in. 16in.
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Artwork (cont.)
Vis Consili Expers Mole Ruit Sua, 2000
Tailbone, 19931¾in. 5¾in. 4¾in.
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Artwork (cont.)
(untittled) Mouth, 1993 4½in. 4¾in. 6¼in.
Tongue in Ear, 1983 5¾in. 6½in. 3½in.
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Background

Tony Smith, father, sculptor
Jane Smith, mother, opera singer and actress
Seton Smith, sister, artist
Born in Nuremburg, Germany
Grew up in South Orange, New Jersey
Categorized
Early screenprints
Anatomy
Self-portraits
Nature
Feminine context
Had printings, books, and sculptures

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Timeline
2005 Publishes the book Kiki Smith A
Gathering,1980-2005 that presents an array of
Smith's work
1974 Enrolls at Hartford Art School
Today she is still living and working in NY
1976 Moves to New York
1954 Birth
1950s 1960s 1970s
1980s 1990s Today
1978 Joins Collaborative Projects Inc and started
making her first artworks
1980 The theme of death emerges in her artwork
with the death of her father
1985 Begins to work in glass at the New York
Experimental Glass Workshop
1979 Begin to make drawings of microscopic
images, cross sections and nerve endings from
Grays Anatomy
1985 Trains at Brooklyn hospital to become an
Emergency Medical Technician
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Quotes

Prints mimic what we are as humans we are all
the same and yet every one is different. I also
think theres a spiritual power in repetition a
devotional quality, like saying rosaries.-1998
In making work thats about the body, Im
playing with the indestructibility of life, where
life is this ferocious force that keeps
propelling us. At the same time, you can just
pierce it and it dies. Im always playing between
these two extremes. -1991
At ULAEIm starting to use myself. Maybe
because prints are this other world- theyre a
secret entrance into using myself as a
subjectIve been much more self-revealing in
doing prints-1991
I found this anthropomorphizing of animals
interesting the human attributes we give to
animals, and the animal attributes we take on was
humans to construct our identity. Im trying to
think about this relationship between nature and
human nature, their different objects. -1998

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Materials and Techniques
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Elements of Art

Shape This piece is more complex than what its
first impression gives. The shape is not a
simple, smooth bowl.
Texture The fine silver naturally gives it a
shiny texture, its smoothness is distorted
through the imprints which creates a rough touch.
Space The finger imprints give more depth and a
sense of imperfection in not staying consistent.
The fingers added at the bottom is quite clever,
though some may find it disturbing.
Planes The open surface may be considered a
plane,
otherwise, there does not seem to
exist a visible plane in the picture.
Value The value (although not
demonstrated in this picture)
is created when subjected to light,
resulting with some areas glowing
luminously, while leaving others
hidden in shadows.
Color There is no apparent
external application of color.

Fingerbowl, 1997
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Principle and Design

Balance The formal balance in this piece was
created by
constructing a symmetry down the middle.
Proportion The star (head/top portion) is larger
in size than the
neck region (directly under the head). Smith
continues down the
body of the shooting star with a widening tail
(bottom portion).
Unity The lines of the tail appear unified in
that they are
linear despite the difference in slope, it
appears to intersect at
a single point, the head.
Variety The only notable variety, excluding the
obvious shape,
would be the distance between the lines on the
tail. As the distance
a point on the tail is from the star is
increased, so is the distance
between that point and another on the next line.
Repetition The lines on the tail repeats, each
with a different
length which is most evident at the end of the
tail.
Movement The tail demonstrates the stars
movement from one
point to its current position. It illustrates a
moving, shooting star.

Star with Tail, 1997
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Purpose / Meaning

Uses the body as a metaphor, drawing upon
science, faith, and folklore to consider our
strengths and frailties.
I think I chose the body as a subject, not
consciously, but because it is the one form that
we all share it's something that everybody has
their own authentic experience with.
Symbolism and political and social correlation
Depicts women that art history has largely
forgotten
Things keep coming up and telling me to pay
attention to them. I tend to trust that what Im
being told to pay attention to by my work is
somehow beneficial for me.
Reexamine ourselves, our history, and our place
in the world
Bring attention to difficult relationship between
female artists and feminist issues