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XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 6/27/2011
Spotlight on Gustan Joseph, 12th grade
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa
Artist Statement
--Gustan Joseph
Art is, in its most basic form, a symbol designed to evoke a response from the viewer. However, there isn't always a key to explain its meaning, and that is where the observer comes in. It is the observer's half of the art-experience that defines a work's ultimate value and definition, not the artist. Think for yourself; otherwise, art has lost its purpose.
Scarf, graphite
Trigger question, graphite
Susan, graphite
In Bloom, graphite
Self Nostalgia, oil
Grown Up, oil
Blue, oil
Stalker, oil
Orange Dress, oil