Section BEG2B

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. (:

It has been a jolly good day I must say, to visit the Art Gallery.

Althought I wouldn’t consider most of them masterpieces or worthwhile, I came to observe the paintings and photos.Most of the paintings are abstract, everything is from how the Artist “sees” things, his/her own interpretation, I was quite fond of the pictures of the bird’s eye view, while some other bystanders were amazed of a picture of some Racks and Rears….. Which I find weird but I guess it is still art(cough…cough)

Well it was a nice day too. (= w =)y

Time and Location: Mishkin building from 1:00 – 2:30

Well after exploring the arts of Baruch, I’m a bit unimpressed. This was the LAST arts workshop available at Baruch so I HAD to go to this one.

One thing I didn’t like was the long line to get in. They allowed the next 25 people in after every 25 minutes. Unfortunately for me, I was part of the last 25 people. I waited in line from 1:00 to 2:13 to get in and I rushed to class after.

What I learned at the workshop was okay. The name of the gallery was called “Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective.” Mercedes Matter was a female artist who was known for her still lives. As a child, her art was simple. In her teens, she started painting scenes without detail. As for her adulthood, she painted still lives on larger canvas. However, her still lives were different, they had lots of geometric shapes in them, mostly triangles. This offered a new angle on still lives because her paintings were not detailed, as said before, but instead blurry images of fruit. You could still make out what the paintings were but it was difficult.

The gallery-tour guide explained that when looking at art, one should not ask the question “what is it?” Instead the viewer should be asking “what is the artist trying to portray?” This is a good quote that I will always keep in mind when I look at other people’s work now. It’s a very good statement. Also, this gallery was a good example of demonstrating how people’s style and views change over a lifetime. The tour guide explained how at childhood, artists express themselves however they like. Later, artists start to think instead “This doesn’t look right.” They become t00 se-lf-conscious of their paintings and lose their original style.

Overall, this workshop helped me understand and like art more.