Bridge) overlooking the borough of Queens, which the entrance to that bridge (on the Queens side) is a few blocks shy from my old neighborhood growing up. I also personally chose this piece because it is the Queensboro Bridge (54th St. This piece further elaborates the unnatural qualities of an Urban Jungle. Also the fact that the river being depicted as ferocious with a bold tugboat fighting the current, and a massive bridge going into the suburbs of New York City, symbolizes the strength this urban society has and the constant human drive to tame nature. Thematically, the oil on painting portrayed the liveliness, excitement, and energetic qualities of urban life with bold colors, and broad brushstrokes with thick dabs of pigment.
There were many reasons why I chose this piece. Just how in a jungle (if you look up towards the sky) you would see nothing but leaves from the trees and their vertical rising barks absorbing the vertical space of this urban “ecosystem”.Īnother piece that was perfectly form fitting to this theme of Urban Jungle is called Bridge, Blackwell’s island (1909) by George Wesley Bellows. For instance, the work titled Skyscrapers by Gjon Mili, is a photograph in which looks upwards into the sky. Only difference is that the environment incasing these organic shapes (installation and trees) are concrete buildings from which, in contrast, are obviously inorganic.Īs for the other pieces of art, I chose to use them in a means to portray and support the idea of urban jungle that was influenced by Chung. Although the artist intended for this piece to be a sculptural drawing in floatation, the fact that it stems from an urban landscape, and the point of view from which the photograph is taken of this piece, causes the installation to look like the trees of a jungle: interweaving in and out of itself and around the environment like Organic shapes. The medium of this piece is stainless steel pipe, and granite, which measures 11,900 centimeters in width, 7,900 centimeters in height, and 20,800 centimeters in depth. That specific work of art is in the form of an installation and is titled Skyline – Landscapes of Seoul (2010) by Chung, Seung Un. Although Jungles have various forms of animals, I metaphorically wanted to convey that concept of differing species in the form of individuation, and how the vast individual’s economic power affect one another’s character.Īs I was shuffling through various artworks, only one specific artwork gave me the immediate idea of a theme title and what the theme would be about. The reason why I named it Urban Jungle is because these works of art are connected by the environmental cues of skyscrapers, various forms of transportations and the people that live in them. Urban Jungle depicts the sightings of an urban society through various forms of art.