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    Sandy Skoglund is an American artist born in 1946 in Massachusetts. She is known for her surrealist artwork that often incorporates photography, painting, and sculpting to create elaborate staged scenes. One of her most famous works is "Radioactive Cats" from 1980, which depicts a rundown kitchen with an elderly couple and an abundance of brightly colored cats. The surreal scene was meant to portray what life might be like in the aftermath of a nuclear war, with humans losing control and nature/animals taking over. To create her vision, Skoglund had to hand build and paint every element of the staged setting. The work gives viewers a feeling of hopelessness and aims to encourage avoiding nuclear warfare.

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    Sandy Skoglund is an American artist born in 1946 in Massachusetts. She is known for her surrealist artwork that often incorporates photography, painting, and sculpting to create elaborate staged scenes. One of her most famous works is "Radioactive Cats" from 1980, which depicts a rundown kitchen with an elderly couple and an abundance of brightly colored cats. The surreal scene was meant to portray what life might be like in the aftermath of a nuclear war, with humans losing control and nature/animals taking over. To create her vision, Skoglund had to hand build and paint every element of the staged setting. The work gives viewers a feeling of hopelessness and aims to encourage avoiding nuclear warfare.

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    Sandy Skoglund is an American artist born in 1946 in Massachusetts. She is known for her surrealist artwork that often incorporates photography, painting, and sculpting to create elaborate staged scenes. One of her most famous works is "Radioactive Cats" from 1980, which depicts a rundown kitchen with an elderly couple and an abundance of brightly colored cats. The surreal scene was meant to portray what life might be like in the aftermath of a nuclear war, with humans losing control and nature/animals taking over. To create her vision, Skoglund had to hand build and paint every element of the staged setting. The work gives viewers a feeling of hopelessness and aims to encourage avoiding nuclear warfare.

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    Sandy Skoglund is an American artist born in 1946 in Massachusetts. She is known for her surrealist artwork that often incorporates photography, painting, and sculpting to create elaborate staged scenes. One of her most famous works is "Radioactive Cats" from 1980, which depicts a rundown kitchen with an elderly couple and an abundance of brightly colored cats. The surreal scene was meant to portray what life might be like in the aftermath of a nuclear war, with humans losing control and nature/animals taking over. To create her vision, Skoglund had to hand build and paint every element of the staged setting. The work gives viewers a feeling of hopelessness and aims to encourage avoiding nuclear warfare.

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    Internet Artist Research Worksheet

    Name: Elaina Hintze_____________________


    Hour:_2_______

    Artists Full Name _Sandy Skoglund_____________________________________________


    Date of Birth: ___9/5/1946_______________________________________________
    Place of birth: __Quincy, Massachusetts________________________________________________
    Date of and age at death: _n/a_______________________________________
    Place of death: __n/a_______________________________________________
    Cause of death: __n/a______________________________________________
    Education:_ She studio art and art history at Smith College, then_went on to graduate from the
    University of Iowa__________________________________________________
    Primary type of artwork (ex: painting? drawing? sculpture? printmaking?
    ceramics) ___film making, print making,
    painting__________________________________________________
    Media (what materials are used?): _paints, brushes, tableaux, colored furniture, actors, other
    objects________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    Style or period of art? __Surrealism, Conceptual art_________________________________________
    Short definition of that style or period (see Artlex or Artcyclopedia):
    _Surrealism was inspired by psychoanalysis and is meant to be just as confusing and bizarre as dreams
    are. It captures the mysterious vibe and in depth thoughts that dreams create. It is meant to go
    against common reality.__________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    Interesting/Personal information on the artist:

    _To create the effects she wanted in her painting, she had to build and paint the entire sets herself,
    which took longer than just capturing the photo would
    have.____________________________________________________________

    Art Criticism:
    Title of the art:

    Radioactive Cats
    Date of art:
    __1980___________________________________________________________
    Location of the art: (museum or collection)
    ____Whitney Biennial Exhibition_________________________________________________________
    What is the subject matter (Describe the objects in the art)?
    ___Brightly colored paints, a contrasting dreary backround, old folks, a broken chair, a functional
    chair, lack of food in the kitchen, an abundance of
    cats__________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    Genre: Is it a still life (group of things), a portrait (of a person) or a
    landscape, seascape or a cityscape or other (explain)?
    __It is a still life photograph. It captures everyday subjects/objects in one moment in a
    group.___________________________________________________________
    Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible) or abstract
    (distorted reality)? It is extremely abstract, with colors being out of the ordinary and the situation
    being odd. ____________________________________________
    How was it made?: Sandy had to do all the work such as painting the room, building the cats,

    painting them too, and finding actors herself in order to take the photo because of the lack of
    technology we have
    now.__________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________

    Interpretation:
    What do you think the artist was trying to say in the artwork?

    _Based on the title (which hold a lot of wait in interpreting any art work), I believe Skoglund was
    trying to capture what life would be like in the aftermath of nuclear warfare. In the photo, the cats
    out number the humans and seem to have a lot of freedom in the home. This shows a lack of
    authority from the elderly couple which would reflect the human population as a whole in this
    aftermath. If there was nuclear warfare, people would be in disarray (kind of like the cats in the
    photo), and leaders would have a hard time maintaining control of the human population. I believe
    cats in particular were the abundance of objects in this photo because is goes to show that nature and
    animals would also be in chaos with the humans not even being able to control themselves. The
    apparent lack of food in the kitchen and the relaxed, hopeless posture of the old man illustrates that
    the lack of control within society would affect businesses and resources as
    well.____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    Why do you think he or she chose this subject?
    _I believe she feels strongly about the world refraining from using nuclear warefare because she has
    imagined the effects of it, so she uses this artwork to encourage the rest of the world to feel the same
    way.____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
    __When I see this artwork, I feel hopeless and cut off from the work. When I look at a photo, I imagine
    myself in the subjects shoes, and by their living condition and the lack of resources there, I believe
    that is what I would feel along with feeling out of control of the
    situation.___________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
    ________My favorite part of this artwork in particular is the lying down broken chair. I believe that it
    intrigues the viewer and makes them wonder why it was even included in the first place, and just adds
    to the theme of chaos and hopelessness while still being a seemingly unimportant
    object._____________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    What events in history took place during the time of the artwork that may

    have influenced this artist (a war, etc)


    ______The U.Ss presence in Iraq began and Iran and Iraq began a wa that lasted for 8 years. War and
    the fact that we had the technology to use nuclear weapons may have inspired Skoglund to speak out
    against the possibility of using it at this
    time._____________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________

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