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Katherine Linn Sage born June 25, 1898 and died January 8, 1963, who goes by the name of Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet. She was active between the years of 1936 and 1963, and then she had committed suicide in her last year of work. She had married a surrealist painter Yves Tanguy in 1940, and was extremely sadly affected by his sudden death by stroke in 1955. A member of the Golden Age, and later the Post-War periods of surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature.

Man Ray is the nickname of originally born Emmanuel Radnitzky, who was born on August 27, 1890 and died on November 18, 1976. Ray was an American visual artist although he spent most of his life in France. He was a huge contributor to the Surrealist movement, although it wasn’t formal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also acknowledged for his work with photograms, he called "rayographs" so people knew they referred to him.

Artist’s Name: Kay Sage

Title: Unusual Thursday

Date: 1951

Description: It’s random different things all together in the one corner of the photo. Then you have what it looks as to be an unfinished bridge leading off into the distance.

Analysis: I feel as though this picture wasn’t supposed to have any symmetry. I do feel that she used the rule of thirds so that the focal point which is the bridge in the distance wasn’t centered. I feel not having it centered makes the image stronger.

Interpretation: In my opinion this photo speaks out to me a lot. Reason for that is probably because I feel I have a very open mind and I am creative. I feel that it means right now you may have mayhem going on but if your cross that bridge or keep moving forward there’s another journey ahead of you. I also agree with the title because maybe on a certain day it’s a bad one but the bridge represents a new day and you should be looking forward to it.

Judgment: I feel this is a piece of work that you need to really relate to yourself and analyze. Without actually sitting down and thinking about it you probably wouldn’t think it was a nice successful piece of art work. But overall I think it has a lot of meaning and is a great piece.

Artist’s Name: Man Ray

Title: Coat-Stand

Date: 1920

Description: This is a photo of a real woman and a cardboard cutout of a woman. From the breasts to the bottom of the full leg is the real woman. Meanwhile the arms and face is a card board cutout. Then he makes it look like the coat rack is holding up the woman.

Analysis: I feel that this picture is supposed to have the symmetry between the top part being fake and the bottom being realistic. Although the one missing leg throws it off slightly.

Interpretation: This photo is rather easy for me to analyze because I feel as though the artist is trying to portray to use as the viewer that not all women are real and there are a lot of fake people in the world. I also feel that the coat-rack represents the men and society back in the day because this was in the 1920’s and women had no rights and whatever men said is what they were provided to do no matter what.

Judgment: I feel overall this is a really successful piece because it describes the life of a woman in the 1920’s. This photograph says a lot to the viewer and proves that being a woman was difficult in the 20’s. I really enjoy this photo and appreciate the meaning that comes with it.

I feel both of these pieces of work are different in appearance but I feel they have similar meanings and as the why they were created. Sage is trying to interpret that you need to get past the bad things and move forward while Ray is telling the horrible life women had in the 20’s and showing what they were treated like. So both of the artworks have a meaning to them which I feel is a cool thing. But these are also very different by the way they are created and taken. The dark colors help make the mood of the photo bad and show the feeling ad make the viewer have those feelings. In the first one at the end of the bridge you see the light which represents goodness. Overall I believe both of these have great meanings and very successful.