– You will be writing a 5-page essay on an African artist for your final paper.
-Artist I choose and why: For my essay I will be writing about Julie Mehretu. Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her work consists of large-scale abstract paintings and prints. Much of her work entails landscapes in which I am very big fan of landscape paintings. Being a photographer/videographer of landscapes myself, I truly appreciate the level of detail in her work. I would also like to dive deeper into she uses political aspects in her paintings. Such as taking pictures of race riots and blurring them and using those blurred images to create the colors for her paintings and prints. That technique is unique and intriguing.

Essay also must focus on the African Arts how and why this Artist is incorporated into that culture.

*African Arts Class