Anne McDonald

 Joe Seck

5/2/2023

Art 337

Anne Arden McDonald is an American artist known for her unique work in the chemigram technique. Born in New York in 1952, McDonald studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and later earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has some of my favorite works I have seen in chemical painting. She does a lot of the things I tried to do and has done them in a fashion I couldn't imagine.


    These works by McDonald have some of the most interesting patterns I have seen. The painting of the left reminds me of planets in a galaxy. The circle on the bottom has what looks like to me as a moon and the holes and small circles remind me of holes in planets. While the biggest circle on the left reminds me of Saturn without the rings. I love the black background as well and I wish I tried to do something similar.

    The work on the right was one of the ones where I was pretty confused how she did it. I assume she used different resistances to get different colors in her circles. I also like how they are different colors and shades. I also think the white background works very well and wouldn't work as well with a black one.

This was by far my favorite work from McDonald that I had seen. It looks almost ethereal when you look at it for a while. This work has colors I couldn't even think of getting and it is amazing the amount of small detail and marks this has. This one really reminds me of a galaxy even more than the others that I have seen and talked about.

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