sandy skoglund

Sandy SkoglundBy: Emory Lewman

Life Time Sandy’s nationality is

American Born in 1946 Her style is photo surrealism She usually used cibachrome

color or pigmented inkset

Education She majored in art studio and art history at

Smith college Then later she received a degree in film

making, but she ended up not bring able to afford this job

She has her master of art and masters of fine art

Achievements Sandy work as a professor at

Hartford She is a self taught

photographer She lived in New York Her surrealist works are

characterized with overwhelming colors

Radioactive Cats 1981 Offset 65x81 cm

Walking on Egg Shells 2001 Pigmented inkset 12x16

Breathing Glass 2000 Cibachrome color

photograph 39x52

At the Shore 1994 Cibachrome color

photograph 11x14

Picnic on Wine 2003 Pigmented photograph 42 h 153 l

Maybe Babies Cibachrome color 29x37

Revenge of the Goldfish 1981 Cibachrome color 27x35

Fresh Hybrid 2008 38x48 Color photograph

Closer Look

Description A completely yellow room One man sleeping on the floor with a

yellow blanket With hundreds of red guns and red army

men pointing the guns to him His hands are on his head in distress

Interpretation This picture shows how distressed the

everyday man was with the pressure of atomic warfare

It shows how government problems can harm everyday people very emotionally

Analysis The use of repetition with the red guns and

soldiers Also these weapons make a pattern which

frames the sleeping man Guns point to the man as the focal point

Judgment I find this to be one of Sandy’s best pictures I love the contrast of the dark red and bright

yellow I also appreciate the strong symbolism

Inspiration Sandy was always a big appreciator of all the

arts. She never did quite focus on just one field of the arts seeing that she majored in art history and film and other fields.

But soon enough Sandy began looking into photography and she eventually even taught herself the skill.

All forms of art were quite inspiring to Sandy and she was quite the appreciator of them all.

Inspiration Sandy could be inspired by anything, her

most famous picture, Radio Active Cats, was inspired to her through a dream

She does a lot of meticulous work on each scenery, some even take her 6 months to a year!

Each shoot takes one day, all clay figures are sculpted by Sandy herself

Inspiration "I think my life is completely upside down

because I dream aboutordinary life...going shopping, to the hairdresser."

- Sandy has many absurd and interesting thoughts.

She is a creative being that can find inspiration in the symbolists things around her, such as frech fries and cheese puffs

Question 1 What was Sandy’s

first major?b. Architecturec. Photod. Drawinge. Film

Question2 What was Sandys

style?b. Documentaryc. Surrealistd. Realiste. None of the above

Question 3 How long did it take her to make her

sceneries?b. A dayc. She didn’t make themd. 6 months-a yre. 1 week

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