11/17/09 – 1:00pm-2:00pm in the Sidney Mishkin Gallery building
This workshop was the one of the last Arts at Baruch workshops, so there were many people that attended. The line was very long, and I waited for a whole hour before I went into the gallery (they let in groups of 20 people). Overall, I was disappointed by this workshop.
At first, I was very surprised that Baruch has an art gallery because Baruch is so much of a business school. I was kind of excited to go to this workshop.
However, because of time constraints (I was part of the second to last group to enter the gallery), the woman introducing the artwork had to rush our group and only briefly explained about the highlights of the gallery. The woman also briefly talked a bit about modern art in general and how modern artists tend to stray away from realism because photographs can capture the real world better. What she had did have time to introduce to us was quite interesting. It was interesting how Mercedes Matter utilized triangles as foundations in her paintings. I wish we could have some time to go around the gallery and look at the paintings ourselves. I am more able to explore and enjoy the artwork this work.
I felt like I wasted my time waiting for an hour, but I do understand why there were so many students attending this workshop. The gallery tour would have been much more enjoyable if we had more time and freedom to browse the gallery by ourselves.