When John Feodorov creates art, he's not aiming to please viewers, but to make something that's provoking. He tries to do this through kitsch objects and his paintings.
What drives Feodorov's works is how America still represents Native Americans and how they are stereotyped. His works also explore the reverence and respect Native Americans have for animals and the polar opposite way America has portrayed animals in cartoon movies.
A lot of Feodorov's works feature kitschy objects and his attempt to make them spiritual. He does this by adding to his pieces ritual objects related to Native Americans. Feodorov's paintings are not realistic per se, and each one is different from the last. Subject matter varies a lot and some paintings employ many colors while some have hardly any. Line quality differs as well from painting to painting, with some lines reading as very messy and others not. Feodorov tries to get across various messages in both his paintings and his modified kitsch objects by adding spiritual gestures and items in non-spiritual settings, in a sense poking fun at spirituality itself. It is through this combination of contradictory subject matter that Feodorov can so effectively get his point across through his pieces.
Information provided by:
"John Feodorov." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.
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