For our field trip, we visited the Brooklyn Museum. During this time there was an ongoing event known as the Jr Chronicles, we talk about JR (French photographer and street artist ). His impossibly cool, always in sunglasses. Thin. French. In fact, JR’s anonymity is crucial to the integrity of his work. But it is almost impossible to dislike JR. He’s funny. And the art is good, which is rare, and it stands for something, which is far rarer still. His artworks seem like try to express a connection between peoples.
When you look at these pictures, you can see that the dynamic expressions of the people show the most authentic side of the person, which can be associated with the person’s thoughts in the picture at that time. Tell a story or idea after you observe it carefully. The work is complex because you can’t understand at a glance what the work is about to express. Instead, it can inspire you as an observer to better understand what is being displayed.
His portrait artworks are too impactful, the people in the photo seem to tell us what he wants to express through the photo.
Over the past two decades, JR has expanded the meaning of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to a broad spectrum of people around the world. Showcasing murals, photographs, videos, films, dioramas, and archival materials, JR: Chronicles is the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French-born artist. Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement, and street art, JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale, and wheat pasting them in nearby public spaces.
