Blog #3-Museum: Kyle Gosson

Instead of going to New York City, Philadelphia or Baltimore, I drove back to home over the weekend and went to two different museums in Boston. The two museums were Museum of Fine Art and Institute of Contemporary Art.

Museum #1: Museum of Fine Art

It’s similar to Metropolis Art Museum in NYC, yet, a lot different in other ways too. They have a new addition part, which is all about the American Artists. The first floor has artworks from the 18^th century, most of them are related to colonies era and then on the second floor is 19^th century to early 20^th century. Middle of 20^th century and after is on the third floor. The museum also has other sections, related to Asia, Egypt, and Europe arts. In the basement, they have photographs. Also it has a section for the contemporary arts, however it’s not completed, and will be complete by September 2011.

This museum does a very good job by the way they set things up in each room with all art pieces in there. They have painted walls that match to the pictures or those artworks. At the center of museum there is one tall tower that is made out of glasses, made by Dale Chihuly and this tower is called “Lime Green Icicle Tower.” He said that this tower is more than 40 feet tall and about 10,000 pounds while there is 2,342 individual glass pieces put together. It took a week for him and his team to make this.

I found it very fascinating, since I am sculptor. I really give a lot of credits to this man. I researched a little about him and I think I just, finally, found an artist who I would look up to. The reason why I really like things about him is that he believes “I tend to do things on a large scale because it’s exciting. I like to push things in new and different ways.” – Dale Chiluly. I agree with him, completely!

Museum #2: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

This museum is brand new and unique. It’s on a waterfront, seaports. It has a lot of windows, which you can see the entire city of Boston and across the harbor area/river, with an awesome view. If you go to the fourth floor, you can see all planes land or take off from Logan International Airport over the bay with many of the ships coming in or departing.

This museum is related to modern/contemporary. They have Shepard Fairey’s OBEY artworks. He is well known as the designer of a poster of Obama’s “Hope”. His pieces are very amazing by the way he printed them, resulting in perfect and clean pieces. He used very bold colors to emphasis the visual eyes.

However, two things that disappointed me that they wouldn’t let me to take picture in the exhibitions, and three floor was closed to get ready for new art pieces coming in soon. I only went to one floor, which is the 4^th floor. At least they gave me the second ticket to come back again, by the time they have everything done.