Free Choice: Air Jordan Artwork

For my free choice portion I chose an artwork I did in art class. This artwork consists of Michael Jordan who was my favorite idol and basketball player I looked up to when I was young. Mainly when he was in the league but now he’s retired. On this artwork it has the Jordan symbol/logo. The symbol to me represents Jordan’s Accomplishing his goals. That’s how high he’s reached since becoming a pro basketball player and a successful entrepreneur. Jordan could be a role model for anybody if they knew behind his existence. Pretty much that’s every African American boy’s dream, to be in the NBA one day. Because before the new century( the 1990’s) that’s all we boys knew and had to learn how to play, but as more opportunities arose many of us just started taking these opportunities and make something of ourselves.” Sports are there to entertain you, you can’t make something out of yourself playing sports for the rest of your life, you need to have a back -up plan”, quoted by my African American Studies Teacher.The significance of this as I said was the logo which showed Jordan in the air as he attempts to slam dunk, also shows how high he soared to get where he’s at now. The logo is on almost all of his sneakers, shirts, basketball shorts and more. Many people can learn a thing or too from this significant logo. Everything in the background or it’s surroundings are not really included in his products. I thought I could make it with more surroundings because it wouldn’t look as perfect just putting the symbol on a big poster without the name and a couple other accessories. Jordan is worth a lot just as well as my artwork. Jordan combined with Nike about 2 months ago and made a killing off their debut sneakers the first week of sales. The artwork is worth a lot to me because every time I look at it I think of it’s significance especially when I slack off in school. And if anyone has the same spirit as me they would know how much it’s worth, knowing now Michael Jordan is one of the wealthiest African Americans in the U.S.