The Nature of Photography; 10/13/09

Upon attending arriving at the Sidney Mishkin gallery, I was like WOW, it was my first time entering this place. It looked nothing like the rest of Baruch.

• I thought it was quite exciting to visit new areas at Baruch :D.

There was a line to enter the gallery. A group of 10 to 15 entered at a time. When we got in, we put our bags down and hurried to the gallery tour guide. She introduced herself and we began. I don’t recall the first art she brought us to but I do remember the one of the tundra, or whatever it was.

• There were 2 frames of the same artwork but one art was modified so it had a blue texture, and the other one was in grayscale.
• Then the guide spoke of how colors can change the mood of an artwork.
• The blue one was resized to fit in a smaller frame. The blue texture made the things in the picture look like there were coated ina sheet of ice, like the world had stopped.
• I think the other one was in grayscale, and was enlarged to see every little bit of detail.

The next one she showed us was of “sand dunes” but in reality, they were actually four butts laying diagonally on the streets. The angle and lighting decieved us D: Plus, we weren’t expecting a pictures of butts in a gallery.

Well I enjoy art, but not so much as to studying one and picking out pieces and explaining the point of it though. I understood the idea behind the shades of color but I did not know that enlarging one would generate such a different feeling as to looking at one that is smaller in size.

I guess I would recommend this workshop to other students because this world has colors. Learning the basics behind coloring would benefit them as a person in judgement and stuff. (: