Adrian Stimson and Canadian Art Assignment
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Adrian Stimson and Canadian Art Assignment
Added on 2020-04-21
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Running head: ADDRIAN STIMSON AND CANADIAN ARTADDRIAN STIMSON AND CANADIAN ART Name of the Student:Name of the UniversityAuthor Note:
ADDRIAN STIMSON AND CANADIAN ART2 Table of ContentsArtist’s biography:.....................................................................................................................3Medium and material used:........................................................................................................4Performing art:.......................................................................................................................4Chief concepts and message of Adrian Stimson’s works:.........................................................4Strategies....................................................................................................................................5References:.................................................................................................................................7
ADDRIAN STIMSON AND CANADIAN ART3The essay discusses the biography of a Canadian artist Adrian Stimson who representsthe Blackfoot community of Alberta. His works are unique as they carry the traditionalessence. The essay analyses the artist’s background, his messages through artworks, themedium he used and his strategies to convey his ideas. BuffaloBoy is inspired by Buffalo Billof the wild west and becomes a trickster symbol that unreveals and redefines the colonialstereotypes through hilarity and satire. This performing art has achieved huge popularity inNorth America and became the regular occurrence at Burning Man festival of Nevada.This essay discusses various aspects associated with the artist’s much celebratedperforming art, BuffaloBoy. In this work, people come across a buffalo bill with a Blackfootburlesque dancer. The BuffaloBoy is a gender blending persona which reflects upon thecolonial stereotypes as well as identities (canadianart.ca). To the artist it is not only anidentity of the aboriginal Blackfoot people in Canada but a gender identity. BuffaloBoy is themixture of human and buffalo, it is also a mixture of man and woman. It has been the epitomeof the artist’s identity questioning art. Artist’s biography:Adrian Stimson was raised inSault Ste. Marie, Ontario and a member of the SiksikaNation Blackfoot Reserve in southern Alberta. Stimson had studied in Alberta college of Artand Design and received Bachelor of Fine Arts (canadianart.ca). He completed his Master ofFine Arts from the university of Saskatchewan. He is considered as an interdisciplinary artistand his works are exhibited nationally as well as internationally. He is an educator, instructorin University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and curator of the Mendel Art Gallery. In 2010Stimson was selected to visit to Afghanistan and represented the Canadian Forces Artistsprogram. In Regina he arranged an exhibition named Holding Our Breath at Neutral Groundin 2011. The British Museum has acquired two of his paintings for its indigenous collectionof North America.
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