John Fekner used his graffiti art to create an awareness of the social issue of poverty. Sisters Brothers is a spray painted art on the walls of Berlin, Germany. The artwork signifies four children, two girls and two boys, standing in line above a black rubber belt that represents a barricade. The worn and breaking barricade symbolizes the Gaza strip. Fekner shows the bruises that can be inflicted by the black rubber belt by painting the two girls red and purple and the boys black and blue. The children move on united in a line to show that they will overcome their harsh conditions together. Even though Fekner depicts the poverty in Israel, I think that this social issue has an effect on all parts of the world. This art can provide information and facts on the topic not otherwise available to other parts of the world. The information on the poverty can transcend to all people. I think people could react by collaborating and interacting together on a solution to end poverty among children. Once I researched about Fekner’s Sisters Brothers I wanted to do a painting about poverty as well. My composition is skinny, frail children of different races reaching out to a table full of food. The composition would be balanced with children placed on one side of the painting and the table of food on the other. The overlapping of food and children will create 3-dimensional space. The table will be made up of vertical and horizontal lines. Curved lines that make up the children will give a sense of movement to the painting. I plan to paint the food with values of red, orange, yellow, green and purple in order to make them look realistic. The people will be painted in a beige, brown and/or soft pink. The background will be painted in black to give the felling of isolation and emptiness.
I want the viewer to feel the sadness that I felt as I learned about Fekner’s Sisters Brothers. The viewer needs to see the physical and emotional affects that poverty can have on a child.
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