Whitney Museum

by thomas.pan

I never knew college had mandatory field trips, until we went to the Whitney Museum.I around looking at his scribbles and doodles to his wonderful masterpieces in a well kept museum, with security guards constantly grilling me. The presentation of the works was what really stood out to me because it was a retrospective of his work throughout his life. His early works usually had dark and gloomy motifs, but as time passed his works started becoming brighter. What was even more interesting was when the class was discussing one particular, Charles Burchfield’s granddaughter was there also! She gave us some insight on some of the paintings Charles painted. The floor above burchfield’s was contemporary art, and it was a bit more interesting. There was this figure made out of copper. From one angle it looked like a girl was on top of the guy, but if you walked around the figure looked like the guy was on top of the girl. (Apparently they were having sex.) There was a very creepy realistic wax figure of a grandmother that nearly scared me out of my wits. At the end of the day my feet felt tired and i want to just go home because I walked around for too long.