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I thought the enrichment workshop was interesting. I thought  the set itself was very unique and well thought out. The lady who presented it did a good job in doing so however at times I feel like she dragged it out a little too much. At times the workshop seemed a little boring since the presenter was being fairly repetitive and monotone. For the future I would prefer changing the topic of workshops to maybe sports or something else other than I did find the art interesting however the form it was presented to us it’s came off as boring.

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.

So, about a month ago, we had an enrichment workshop which was part of our Freshman Seminar class. Everyone showed up to class that day because that’s how excited they were. Or maybe it’s because we needed to attend the workshop to pass the class. Whichever one you prefer really. Personally, unlike my classmates I enjoy looking at certain types of art. However, the art collection at the Ruben Museum was rather lacking to be honest. I understand that the museum is small, and a part of a city college, but still, I would have liked to see some more diversity. Furthermore, I think that if students are working in a place like this, they should at least have some sort of enthusiasm towards this field, because students are already bored when they walk in the door. But other than that, I think it’s great that our school has some sort of method for us to experience art so close to us and for free.

I want to be honest when writing my blog post. Saying that, i thought the Enrichment Workshop was a waste of time. It was long and boring, and out of schedule meaning it wasn’t even on a monday. i wasted my time, but I’m not that mad. we basically just saw a bunch of pictures, some were historic, some were abstract, few had meaning and some were sexually graphic. but i guess when it comes to art anythings possible right? well I’m not the type of person to have an out of body experience when looking at colors or pictures. if i like them i like them, but other than that i don’t feel anything else. Im not the type of person to be inspired when looking at a simple photo, i mean i don’t even know what’s so special about the mona lisa. i mean its vintage but it just a woman who was originally a man.

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.