Alexis Rockman

Elizabeth Flaugher

9:30:11:18 am

10/4/11

Alexis Rockman

            The Evolution painting by Alexis Rockman in 1992, was a piece of artwork that caught my eye as soon as I walked into one of her exhibit rooms. This artwork is very colorful, and has a lot of unique animals included in it which is the denotation. It  is an artwork within a marsh like area, where a mix of dinosaur and pre-historic animals are in this swamp along with animals. Another thing to note was a volcano in the background with smoke coming out of the top of it, looking like it’s polluting the air. Alexis Rockman has a dark side to this painting. The swamp has oil sitting on the top of it and the animals are swimming above and below the water.

            The Evolution artwork was made with paint. Alexis mixed a lot of crazy colors together to attract her viewers. In my opinion, this painting was made to express the harm that the world is doing to our animals and wild life due to pollution. The connotation is Alexis is trying to stress pollution is going on in the world around us more and more each day. The artist is expressing that with showing the oil in the water, and the smoke in the air. I really liked this painting of Alexis the most of all her artworks.