2020 Finalist, Grade 8
- Sydney Laster
- More Than Just a Picture, 2020
- Acrylic on canvas.
- 12 x 9 in
Teachers: Mindy Armstrong and Alice Bertels
School: Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka, KS
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "For my painting to represent his work I wanted to include a camera that he would’ve used in that time, so I researched what a camera looked like during that time period. I also wanted to include his picture of newsboys smoking. I was drawn to that picture for some reason. I wanted both of those things in my painting, so I put the picture in the camera lens’s reflection."
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
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