Seth Trump Blog #3 NYC

The first place I went to was the Chelsea Art Museum. To me it felt more like a gallery than a museum. Right when you walked in there was a bookstore area and a front desk. It consisted of three floors. The ground floor was closed for an upcoming event. The second floor had untitled works and another section for artist Jean Miotte. Then the third floor was dedicated towards printmaker Liao Shiou-Ping.

I concentrated on the second floor. The bottom picture shows the piece i was looking at. It was untitled. A projector projected a video of a person putting items in and out of this box. It was so simple yet clever. It looked so real and they also had a speaker with sound on the inside of the box.

Overall I liked the museum. It was my first time there. But I felt like for paying I should have seen more but they still had some interesting pieces. I would still go again though. The Jean Miotte section from what I understood was a permanent part because that is the foundation it's funded by so another nice part was if you liked their stuff you could come back to see it and if not they constantly have new exhibitions.

The second place I visited was the Paula Cooper Gallery. It was a lot smaller than the Chelsea Art Museum. It was also right across the street on the second floor of a building so it was a little hard to find because I almost felt like I was walking into someone's apartment complex. At the time there was an exhibition going on called Elemental by a group of artists.

The artist were sculptors, photographers, 2d, and types of digital and video art. The piece I focused on is the top picture. You would go into a room with just three screens in the back. On the screens there were three owls and every few seconds to even a minute one out of the three would turn their head and "hoot." I found this very entertaining to watch because you would never know when it was coming. It was kind of a jack in the box affect.

I actually found myself enjoying the Paula Cooper Gallery more than the Chelsea Art Museum. I think the fact that it was free helped. Also the types of art at the gallery drew me in more at the gallery. Everything seemed more organic and more visually appealing. I wanted to get closer to the art and see how they did certain things and understand what the message was behind it.

Brittney Logan |Assignment NYC trip|

I went to the MOMA for the first time and I was truly amazed, seeing the images in class on projectors are completely different than seeing them in real life. I spent four hours in the MOMA admiring a lot of pieces, I was really fascinated how the museum was set up, just with all the different floors, and how each floor had something different to bring to the table. The bookstore was quiet amazing also, and I loved how they had sections on the floors where you could buy other things from the bookstore.I loved how it was so much open space in the galleries, I didn’t feel overwhelmed by people running into me or walking in front of me while I was trying to take pictures.

Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” was really interesting to look at up front and personal, I was introduced to this piece in my 2-d design class, I was always fascinated at how he was able to show the depth in this image, The detail is so precise in the grassy field and the picture leaves you wondering if she’s hurt and trying to get back up the hill or if she’s admiring the view from afar. What I really loved about this piece was that you never know what her face looks like and you can only see the back and wonder, I also always wondered If this was a dream because of the title he gave the piece.

This piece above was by the Guerilla girls, I’ve always found some of their work interesting, I mean what’s not interesting about a group of girls that wear guerrilla mask and no one knows who they really are except them. A lot of the stuff they display in their artwork is truthful and it shows the injustice that females encounter on a daily basis. This piece is simple and simply has a line cutting off 1/3 of what women actually make as artist than male artist do, just because our society is bias male artist make more money and are considered more famous than female artist.

The Gallery I visited was Hubert Gallery on Madison, it’s a very small neat gallery, when you walk in there’s a desk to the right and artwork hangs from the walls and some lean on the walls, there’s a small section in the back that has more artwork with another desk that someone sits at. There was a cute little wiener dog that greeted us with a tennis ball, the atmosphere was really laid back and I enjoyed that because a lot of galleries they attack you soon as you enter trying to get you to buy something’s.

This piece was by a lady called Fiona Morley, I have never seen a piece of work like this and I was instantly fascinated, I thought it was so “cool” I have seen some pretty amazing 3-d pieces but this one was so weird nerdy that it stood out too me, she used metal wires and paint and made all the faces the same with the wire. Overall the piece was really unique and her use of background choice I thought was very good, it compliments the rest of the piece.

This piece by Damien Hirst attracted my attentions just because I love polka dots, and I love bright colors. I was disappointed with the way they have it displayed though, the piece is wrinkled inside the frame, I think appearance is everything it can make or break a piece and although I love polka dots and bright colors, I was very withdrawn from the piece because it was wrinkled. The lighting in the gallery was relatively very well though, the gallery was more contemporary art, which I appreciated also.

Hannah Morris #3

For this assignment I went to Philly, I decided to go to galleries. First I went to The Slought Foundation. French artist Tania Mouraud had a video installation entitled " I keep hearing the trains forever". I had read about this installation in the nespaper and it sounded interesting, so i wanted to check it out. I am glad that I did see this. It was like nothing else I've ever seen before.

When I first got there the gallery looked really small and like nothing special. When I walked in the lady said I had to wait behind a curtain while she turned on the audio and video. When that was turned on I walked into the gallery space. It was all dark and the sound was all around me, it was overwhelming to my senses. There were about 4 screens in the first room. The largest screen showed shaky footage of something running through a forest, there were images of a watchtower too. Another screen in the same room showed a wild boar getting shot and suffering, another screen showed a still image of a deer amongst trees, and the smallest screen was a person standing in the forest. The sounds around me were loud and haunting. After viewing all of these screens I went onto the next room which showed an upclose image of a creepy mouth, and shaky footage of a graveyard. In the last room the music was kind of more happy but because it was happy it made it creepy. On the screen it showed a view from a foggy car window driving up a hill in the forest. At the end of the road the music stopped and there was a view of a concentration camp.

This installation was about the holocost. It was a very effective installation because it really pulled me in, and was overwhelming to my eyes and ears. It was cool and creepy.

After that gallery I went to the Daiet gallery. The exhibit was entitled "Contemplative Realms". It featured work by three artists- Sky Kim, Juri Kim, and Irena Kononova. Irena Kononova work i didnt really prefer. Her body of work was called "Primeval Geographies". Her paintings were abstarctions of different types of landcapes and rocks.

I really liked Sky Kim's work. Some of the pieces I thought were really cool were 10 ft. scrolls decorated with intricate patterns done in marker. They must have taken forever to complete. The work was about human existence I think. All of the intricate patterns in this work looked really cool.

I also really liked Juri Kim's work. His work was about communication, the work involves science, logic, and emotion. The paintings were entire canvases filled with dots, each a different color scheme. In his artist statement he said painting these was a zen-type activity. The work is about losing, and remembering things. I thougth that was really cool.

Michael Rothenberg Blog 3

For my trip to a city, I went on the bus trip to NYC. When there I stopped at the Metropolitan Museum. The Museum was a lot bigger then I expected, and was hard to get to see everything. I saw a ton of pieces of work that stood out, but to interested me the most.

This piece with with the houses was real cool to me. I liked the artists style that he used and also the simplicity of it. The piece was rather large compared to others which I thought was cool also.

I also liked this piece with the pennies. It was at least 12 ft tall and 8 ft wide. Although it was very simple, the thought behind it was creative. Each picture was a close up of an old penny. You could really see in detail the corrosion on the pennies.

Kelly Geist Assignment #3

For this assignment I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I really liked both of these museums, the MOMA more than the MET but both of them had aspects that I enjoyed. First I am going to talk about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then about the Museum of Modern Art.

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art I wasn't really interested in the older works of art which seem to take up most of the museum, but I was interested in the Modern art. This section of the museum actually had a lot of artworks that I was familiar with and didn't expect to see there, and a lot of pieces that I had never seen or heard of but really liked. There were also a few exhibits that I wanted to see that were only there temporarily.

Some of the things that I really enjoyed seeing in the Modern Art section of this museum were pieces that I had never seen before such as "Skull" by Andy Warhol and also "Mao" by Warhol. "Mao" is absolutely huge and so you can't miss it in the museum. Another piece that I liked was"Lucas" by Chuck Close. That piece in particular was really interesting to see because I don't think that you can get the full effect of it without seeing it in person because there is so much detail in it up close. I also really liked Pablo Picasso's "Cavalier and Seated Nude" because it was just a really strange image and so it caught my attention right away. A lot of the art that I seen in this museum were works of art by artists that I was already familiar with, but these particular pieces were ones that I wasn't familiar with.

Besides the Modern Art section, I also wanted wanted to see the exhibits that were only up temporarily. These were Cezanne's Card Players and Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. I was not that impressed with the Cezanne exhibit. It did have the Card Players which I wanted to see but I wasn't familiar with most of the other works that were in the exhibit and I thought there would have been maybe a few more of his that I had actually seen before. I did however really like the Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand exhibit. In particular, I really enjoyed seeing "The Steerage" and the many images of Georgia O'Keefe.

In the Museum of Modern Art I found that I really liked so many of the artworks that there just wasn't enough time to see everything that I wanted to in it. I felt like I could have spent days looking at everything and it was sort of overwhelming the amount of Modern Art to see there. I tried to see at least a little bit of everything from drawings to paintings, sculptures, and photography.

I felt like every piece of modern art that I have ever learned about was in this museum and I had to see it all. No matter where I went I could pick out art from artists I knew and I really liked that I was familiar with so many of the pieces in this museum but there were also pieces that I didn't know which I also enjoyed seeing. I think what surprised me about the art that I seen in this museum is how different the art looked in person that I had learned about in different classes. I was mostly interested in seeing the most well known pieces in this museum such as van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Warhol's "Soup Cans". I also found that I liked some work better after seeing it in person such as De Kooning's "Woman and Bicycle" and pieces by Magritte.

I think the museum of Modern Art fit more for the kind of art that I am interested in and I think that it has a really good collection from a lot of great artists. I felt like it was the type of museum that everyone should really see at least once because it has all of these well known pieces in it and even pieces that might not be as well known but are still really interesting. I don't feel like I got to see everything that I wanted to in it though and I would like to go through it again.

Morgan Cope-City Art Blog- Philadelphia, PA

For blog number 3, we were required to go to a city of our choice and go to two different museums, galleries or one museum and one gallery then write about it on the blog. I chose to go to one museum and one gallery. I was unable to attend to New York City bus trip so I decided to take a trip down to Philadelphia; I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Wentworth Gallery in Philadelphia. I was expecting both the museum and the gallery to be a little similar but as I was looking closer at things they are very different in many ways. I feel like I liked the museum a lot more than the gallery and have a lot more to talk about the museum than the gallery. The museum was so fascinating and amazed me by the setup, architecture and artwork in the museum. I wish that the museum would have been open longer due to the fact that I could have literally spent all day in the museum looking at the artwork and exploring. I take a lot of pictures since I love photography which I will post in this blog, but I am hoping to make a trip back down to the museum to explore some more artwork that I didn't have time to look at.

First, I am going to talk about the Philadelphia museum of art as a whole and my experience there. When I was getting close to the actual museum, I started getting excited, I didn't really know what to expect or what I was going to find inside. I drove up to the museum parking lot and got out of the car. Right by the parking lot there was a Greek looking metal statue that seemed to me to have some type of sea creatures and horses on it. Not only was it a statue but I also think that it was a fountain turned off or used some time ago. Next, I got to the stairs and of course had to run up the rocky stairs. When I got to the top, the actual art museum building really toke me by surprise. The architecture was put together very well and it was a really beautiful building that consisted of big columns and pediments and marble creatures on the top. Once I got to the top of the stairs and stood up under the columns, I got a strange feeling that went through my body. I couldn't believe I was there, it was so amazing to me.

Next, when I got inside there was a grand staircase leading to the upstairs. The museum consisted of 3 floors: a ground floor, 1st floor and second floor. The ground floor was made up of prints and photographs. I didn't spend too much time on the ground floor, but the first and second floor I spent more time on. The 1st floor consisted of some prints and drawings, modern art, contemporary art and modern European art (1850-1900). These floors had older paintings and sculptures. The floor had more modern art that used bright colors and patterns, some things were abstract and some realistic. There were some of Andy Warhol's work on this floor which I thought was awesome. If I had to pick something that I really liked it would be his work because the way he put things together was in a weird but awesome way. If I had to relate our printmaking class to an artist or floor this would be it.

The second floor was at the top of a large extravagant staircase. This floor consisted of older European art (1100-1850) also, this floor consisted of some architecture, furniture and sculptures all from this time period. I don't think I would have liked this floor as much if I didn't know and study renaissance art this semester. I saw a lot of artist that I have learned about and it was really amazing for me to be standing there in front of very famous works of art. I was amazed to know that I was there and all these artworks were from so long ago. I was also amazed that I was in the presents of the artwork that looked like it wasn’t even that old. One of my favorite paintings of all time was on that floor, "The Birth of Venus" by Nicolas Poussin. I don't know what it is about this artist or the painting but I just love looking at it., I think that I like it so much because I studied his artwork and also because the painting has so much detail that my eye can spend so much time looking at the painting.

Next, the second place I went to was a gallery. The gallery was the Wentworth gallery in Philadelphia. This gallery was a lot different compared to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gallery was a lot smaller than the museum by 100's of paintings. The gallery I went to had about a dozen or so artist that actually got to sell their artwork and put on main display. One of the most famous artists in Wentworth is Jane Seymour & her "Open Heart Collection". The gallery has 20 different locations in 8 different states including Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia. You can buy the paintings at the galleries but, I noticed that the paintings are a little pricey for what I thought they would sell the artwork for. I wasn't very impressed with the work in the gallery compared to the museum artwork. Although it might have been that I was amazed by the museum and there were a lot more artwork and things that really entertained me at the museum. It could have also been that I don't think the pricing of the painting were worth it.

I noticed a lot of the painting in the gallery had to do with some type of "Americanism" or "Patriotic" incorporated into their paintings. Also, the artist used a lot of bright and vibrant colors in their work. Some of the work was abstract looking, almost like they used the outlining of skinny abstract people along with some realistic paintings. Most of the paintings were hung up on a wall about 8 per wall the size of about 60X30, but a lot of their other paintings were hung in a type of wall that almost stand up drawers that slide out and you could also view the artist artwork from there. Although the artist artwork may have taken a lot of time, I respect the time they have put into their work and the way that every artist had approach there artwork differently and had different ideas. Like I said early, I didn't nearly enjoy the gallery as much as I did the museum.

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