Field Trip to Baltimore. Eric Shirk.

Eric Shirk

Last week I went on my field trip to two art museums in baltimore, maryland. As I had been to other art museums before I did not feel like I would enjoy going but man was I wrong. This experience with these art museums has been the best ive ever had I think. The first museum I visited was the Walters Art Museum. As there are four floors to this museum you can imagine the vastnass and amount of peices in this museum. It was truly unreal.

As I walked around looking at all of the other peices I was attracted to one peice in particular. This peice was titled, "Figaros Winkel". As shown above. I think the composition and the black space in the door was very attractive looking. Also, I thought that it was just a very well painted peice overall. I liked the way the people looked and how he portrayed an old time slum most likely in an italian villa. Or atleast the italian villa setting is sort of what I got out of this peice. Another thing I liked about this peice was the Man playing the Banjo or whatever that instrument is. I think that the way he is positioned it looks like he is strumming it and you can almost hear him playing the instrument. It is very well painted.

The other museum I visited would be the American Visionary Art Museum. This museum was crazy looking on the outside and it just gives you the feeling of exactly what it is when you roll up to it, a visionary museum. Everything in this museum was all very pop art type new wave art which I am really into so I enjoyed this visit a lot. Personally I feel that everyone should visit this museum at some point in theyre life but this may be due to the fact that I am partial to New Wave pop art.

As I walked around in this museum I saw so many great peices that I liked so much. I could not decide what piece to write about and then I saw this very interesting pun-type peice in the current exhibition going on. This Piece is called, "Safe Sex" and is by John Root Hopkins. The piece is a pun on the meaning Safe Sex, with condoms but portraying it as safe sex as in a real safe that you keep money in having sex with another safe. I really like the way this piece is layed out and I think it is very asthetically pleasing. I also like the color blue that he used and how it is smudged a little. I think it makes this piece very interesting.

Overall I think that this trip makes was a very successful trip. I had a really great time visiting these two museums and I will definetely go back again. Even though I am partial to the american visionary art museum, I even enjoyed the Walters Museum too. I am glad I went and I think it was a very good exposure to art as a whole.