Catalina Sánchez

Catalina Sรกnchez Montenegro

AP Studio Art. Drawing and Painting

My name is Catalina Sanchez Montenegro. I was born in Bogotรก, Colombia on January 23, 2001. I am 18 years old. My love for art was instilled by my parents getting me into clay and drawing classes when I was little. As time passed I stopped painting, to keep up with other responsibilities, but still enjoyed quite a lot school projects that involved manual activities. Already in high school, when seeing the course AP Studio Art that the school offered I decided to apply in order to challenge myself and to be able to grow as an artist.

During the AP I grew a lot. I improved a lot, learning to use new media and I observing with detail, which gave better results in the works. I really enjoyed it and it was amazing to be able to express myself through it.

Me.

Breath

AP Studio Art. Drawing and Painting

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50 x 35 cm Pencil on paper.

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100 x 50 cm Fabrics on canvas.

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50 x 35 cm Ink on paper.

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100 x 50 cm Black cardboard on paper.

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50 x 35 cm Ink and water color on water color paper.

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100 x 50 cm

Fabrics, acrylics, oil pastels, news paper, and water color on canvas.

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40 x 20 cm Monotype.

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50 x 35 cm Charcoal and water color on water color paper.

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50 x 35 cm White pencil on black paper.

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50 x 35 cm Ink and water color on water color paper.

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50 x 35 cm Ink on water color paper.

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40 x 40 cm Ink and acrylics on water canvas.

Concentration

AP Studio Art. Drawing and Painting

The idea of my concentration started of as oppressions. I began by exploring child injustices, but then decided to expand my theme to society: stereotypes, social media, money value, and limits of our own creation. During this process my focused shifted to that loss of humanity society is going through, on that materialism and superficial values kids are growing in, all that is killing empathy, my portfolio, like Jake Busy once said, is "showing the gritty truthful side of humanity�.

Image 1 shows a child, anguished, and forced to remain silent. In the upper left corner there is a newspaper headline informing about the huge food waste of the country. In the past years in Colombia there has been a corruption case about how the budget given to public schools for food was stolen, and many kids died from malnutrition. I researched a Colombian artist, Doris Salcedo, because her art reflects reality. Image 3 uses irony to criticize. It calls out the imposed goal of achieving happiness, by a clown being forced to smile, and calls out how this happiness model placed by society is a distortion of reality, represented in the effect people get when they consume drugs. Image 5 is a criticism to misogyny, by showing how humans are reduced to animals by seeing women as an object to satisfy, reason why the poster is a face of a chimp facing into a human. Image 8 represents how dreams and goals are pulled down and destroyed by the measures of success, and stereotypes society creates. For this I looked into artist Liliana Porter, which mixes object with drawing. Image 6 shows illiteracy. Image 9 shows how people are seen and judge based on money, ignoring the real them, reason I cut of the eyes. Â

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40 x 40 cm Color pencils, news paper, mud, and water color on water color paper.

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35 x 50 cm Pencil on paper.

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35 x 50 cm Acrylic, ink, and magazines on canvas.

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35 x 50 cm Metallic net and water color on water color paper.

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100 x 50 cm Ink and colored cardboard on paper.

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50 x 35 cm Linocut.

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50 x 35 cm Ink and acrylics on canvas.

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50 x 35 cm Ink and measuring tape on paper.

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30 x 17 cm Ink on pay bill.

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40 x 20 cm Monotype.