MOMA at PS1

 

At PS1 which isn't too far from my college I saw and exhibit of all of Mike Kelly's work. Mike Kelly was an artist who created what some would consider a bit disturbing art work. He committed suicide last year which sadly makes his art work more valuable. On a separate note while studying various artist I find that many have a hard time balancing fame and their personal lives along with their identity's and some time it ends is suicide which ironically makes there work worth more. He created artwork mining America popular culture and moderate to alternative traditions. Most very dark and delirious. Below is one of my favorite works at the exhibit.

 

 

In this part of the exhibit Kelly re-creates the fortress of solitude which was superman's city that was shrunken and kept in glass tubes by the evil arch-villain brainiac. Kelly after analyzing the DC comics he then created three dimensional structures that duplicated the city as seen in the comics. I personally loved this piece because of how interesting it looked before even finding out what its meaning was. It to me gives life to the comics themselves by re creating what people have only read or seen on TV. I couldn't help but touching them and staring at this part of exhibit for long periods of time.

 

Another exhibit that caught my eye and even scared me a little was a dark room that had what looked like two coffins connected by a little box. Everything was too dark to take a picture of so ill try my best to describe it. In the two coffin looking shapes there was room for you too crawl in and it was scary because it was so DARK I couldn't even see my hands in front of me. Making me think about how humans tend to fear the unknown which made me curious and scared but I scrawled in, ones I got to the end where the box connected to the other crawl in coffin there was a small hole. In this peep hole there was a movie playing in slow motion. This piece was another favorite because it engaged the viewer like I actually got to be apart of the art work also I felt like by being so engaged I was put into the artist's place. It really triggered a lot of my fears of being in the dark, now knowing what was in side and how my curiosity in the end trumped my fears and I just went in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



MOMA post-impressionism and pop art

During our class trip to the Museum of Modern Art we studied post-impressionism art work and pop art work. Below is a picture of pop art.

This art piece is pop art by Andy Warhol featured at the MOMA. This piece and pieces similar made by him are duplicates of the same picture some in different colors to create what is know as pop art. Warhol is known as the father of pop art. I find it very interesting when my art teacher informed us that he didn't even create his work he had factories and several people would create the actual pieces from his ideas.

 

This next art piece is of post-impressionism.

 The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh considered one of the pioneers of post-impressionism painted this from imagination and memory. Gogh wrote this to his brother "this morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star that looked very big". He painted this picture from imagination and memory making this piece post impressionism. He responded to what he saw in nature and from his own expressions to create this beautiful piece. I truly enjoyed this art piece and others at the MOMA because I got to see art work from artist that I've only heard of or saw in class, I dp understand now how moving seeing art work in person can be like this photo which for some reason gives me a calming feeling when I look at it.



RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE

On our trip to the metropolitan  museum of art we studied Renaissance art and Baroque are which are two very different styles that have very detailed characteristics. Below is a picture from the Baroque art section.

Wolf and Fox Hunt

 

This art piece is by artist Peter Paul Ruben and is a realistic painting of a fox hunt. This art piece is very large in size and was actually trimmed down because a client said "none but great princess have houses fit to hand it up in". This piece in particular really caught my eye because of the detailed graphs and bold colors of red. Baroque art was created around the time of the scientific revolution and the age of absolutism. Some characteristics of Baroque art is the different twists and turns of the torsos such as the wolfs and hunters making the painting seem 3D, almost as if the painting was moving. Also while most painting around this time period are very controlled Baroque art such as this painting is dramatic and emotional. 

 

Below is a picture from the Renaissance section.

Venus and Cupid

 

This photo is of Venus and her son Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto, this photo shows great characteristics of the Renaissance period in art because almost every aspect of the photo hold a specific meaning. Lotto was obsessed with emblematic devices such as the shell above Venus's head and the rose petals on her lap are her attributes and the ivory is symbolic for fidelity and the myrtle wreath was worn by the bride. This picture also shows a lot of nudity including cupid peeing on his mother which was in fact for good luck nudity which wasn't excepted until the Renaissance period makes this photo unique and funny I enjoyed this trip and the and what I learned from the pictures in it.