Samantha Spreitzer Lecture Review ART 343 Date of Lecture: April 12, 2018 Morgan Craig Lecture I was often thoroughly impressed by Morgan Craig’s pieces. Admittedly, I am impressed anytime someone has a sort of hyper realistic style of painting or drawing, so this definitely fit. But he also played with ideas of angles and color, often brightening colors to draw the viewers in, which, in his words, is a play on capitalism’s spectacle. His works often addressed capitalism in some, normally fairly negative, way that made sense for his subjects. More than anything else, they seemed to be places where capitalism had failed to deliver on its bountiful promises, instead leaving behind deserted shells of places that once held life, but not so much anymore. There are a few exceptions to this rule, but it does largely hold for his pieces as a whole. I do like that his pieces tend to be extremely large,...
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