On January 11th, our Art Ed 450 class visited the Springville Art Museum for the last night of the Spiritual and Religious show. There were many pieces that I found interesting. I'm posting a few of those here.

#1: by Fahimeh Amiri, this was interesting because of the underlying compositional break-up of the space, the flat shapes, and the color palette.
#2 Manti Temple with Sheep, by Jennifer Yvonne Paget: This piece attracted my attention because of how the light was used on the backs of the sheep, and the value contrasts between foreground and background. This is ultimately the same effect that one might get of taking a photograph of the same scene. But if a photo and a painting look the same, one of them is redundant. However, in this case, the artist creates a "painterly" piece and sets up a condition where the shadows appear as solid, yet believable, shapes.
#3 Traveler, by Alexander Morris: The artist creates a piece that appears, at first glance, to be some kind of writing on tablets or in a notebook. The note by the artist discussers Christ as a traveler, and perhaps this is some form of ancient writing.  I found myself wondering what this "traveler" was writing about.
#4 by Laura Erekson Atkinson: This piece was large, and fascinating because of the double-meaning behind the tools, and how they radiated from the first panel on the left.
#5 by Jenna von Benedikt: The movement from the bottom left corner upward and to the right, ultimately forming an S shape, achieved through the use of line, value and color, caught my attention.