I love art and all things aesthetically pleasing, but tend to enjoy more intense work like Salvador Dali, art that makes you think. I like touring museums every now and then, but having us attend one outside of class made the experience more of an inconvenience. I think I would have been able to take the time and enjoy it instead worrying about the time if it had been apart of class hours.
The enrichment workshop I attended a few months ago has had a slight impact on my appreciation of art in general. While I am not an avid fan of photography, this exhibit did stand out to me. The fact that most (if not all) of the photos, or maybe just the ones I remember were all monochrome. This has made me realize that you do not necessarily need to depict something with color, as is the case with most artwork. In fact the lack of color creates a much somber tone, which conveys much more emotion compared to a regular photograph. Being black and white also removes any possible distracts, leaving you to look at what the photographer intended.
Art is a form of expression used to portray ones feelings and share it through beauty and hidden meanings. During our tour of the art gallery for our enrichment workshop, my mind was constantly wondering the meaning of these works of art. Being curious, I asked the tour guide to give his point of view and then I asked for the actual depiction and meaning of the work. What I realized is that it can be perceived in many different of way based of who is examining it and the way they examine it. It is amazing how an artwork can have so much meaning. As they say “A picture is worth a thousand words“. Through some works of art I was able to understand the time period it portrayed, as if I were there. The emotions and meanings in art is powerful when closely examining it. I wouldn’t mind staring at a portrait for hours and feeling as if I were watching a film. Just as pictures which store memories, paintings have a similar purpose. These works of art stimulated my mind while I was there and is a good form of seeing things through a different perspective. Many people look at things in one way, some conform to others beliefs and some to society. Through developing different perspectives one can see the world in many different ways and not one-sided. The word is a beautiful place and these works of art establish such meaning. In art there are many different forms and techniques used in order to portray several meanings. The use of tone, shadow and other devices all serve a purpose of task. Personally my favorite is when their are two different ideas contrasted in a piece of work, in other words, the element of juxtaposition is used. It shows the difference between two ideas. Through art work many people can learn about the history of ones society, country and the world. Art has a tendency of changing and evolving. The more modern forms of art I have noticed is the abstract form. To some a painting may look as a splatter of random paint on a canvas, while to others it is an insightful expression.
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Agreeing with the majority, I feel that the enrichment workshop was extremely boring and a waste of my time. I learned nothing and it was depressing in there. Having taken AP art history, I’ve been to many art museums and none of them were as boring as this one. I appreciate all forms of art and I do like photography, but this display lacked diversity and attraction. Everything was so black and white and bleh. Nothing really stood out to me and everything looked pretty similar.
Well first of all the enrichment work shop was just like a requirement for the class iam sure most of us would not have attended if it was not required 😛 The worst part was that it was not during class time so its was a extra waste of time >.> and to top it off it was at a art gallery so it was like what are we doing there lol . In the end it was just well like i said before a waste of time 😮
I don’t think that the enrichment workshop was significant. It wasn’t even during the actual Freshman Seminar class, so that was kind of annoying. Everyone was anxious to leave, I know I was. I think I wouldn’t have minded as much if it was during the scheduled class, and if we didn’t have to take a “tour” of the place. I don’t hate art galleries, I just find tours boring. I think the one thing I learned was that this gallery even existed.
The enrichment workshop was quite interesting. I actually looked at the pictures carefully and found it pretty amazing. Even though I am not into art, there was one picture that stood out to me from all of the rest. That one picture where there was a man in Time Square in front of a movie theater I believe. This stood out to me because Time Square back in the days looked quite different from what Time Square is today. If you walk through the streets today, you would see so many flashing lights from all directions. You would also see this red stair case where you can actually get an amazing view of the whole city. I feel as if over the years, they turned the city as a tourist attraction and lost the original values that it contained. It made me realize how much money was spent here and how this city is truly revolved around money!
Well since the enrichment workshop happened a while ago, I honestly don’t remember much of it. It didn’t really inspire me at all because I don’t have any real interest in art. I mean some of the images were nice or interesting but this didn’t change my life or leave me with something to remember. Besides finding out that we have an art gallery I fell i didn’t get much out of it. I don’t see myself going back there unless I have to. Basically I didn’t really get much out of it, being there didn’t really do anything for me.
Since the enrichment workshop was a month ago I don’t really remember any specific details about it other then it was boring. The trip to the Rubin Museum was pointless because I did not learn anything from there. Some pictures were nice and captured my attention like the picture of New York but most of them were just portraits of arts that I have no interest in analyzing furthermore. The structure of the Museum was rather boring and plain and it was lacking to me, maybe that’s usually how all art museums are but I don’t enjoy art to appreciate it. Therefore this workshop did not inspire me at all as blunt as that sounds, and I will not visit any art museums in the future.
In all honesty, I didn’t find going to the Art Gallery helpful. It felt like some sort of a waste of time. The only thing I did get out of it was that we had an Art Gallery which I never knew before. It was interesting watching all the images that were taken and seeing the stories behind some of the photographs that were taken. Other than that I don’t think I’ll be going there anytime soon.