Going to the Whitney

On Wednesday, we went to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Before we arrive, we had to walk many long blocks from the L train to the museum. As we approached the museum, we went up to the front desk to acquire our free tickets since we are CUNY students. As this continued, the woman at the front desk kindly gave us white and beautiful tickets that displayed generic fonts of admission to the museum. The lady then told us that we had to go through baggage check in; however, my group and I decided to take the elevator that we first saw and it was the elevator that skipped the basement floor, which was baggage check in. Instead, we immediately arrived at the third floor where I had to urgently use the bathroom. Afterwards, we had gone to the 8th floor to see what was up there. When we arrived, we did not feel satisfied of the certain pictures and displays that they had. So we decided to go down to the 7th floor where we saw more paintings to our liking. I found an oil on a canvas painting which was primarily colors of black, beige, and maroon while it had little streaks of grey, dark blue, light blue, yellow, and orange. When I looked at the picture, it reminded me of a pizza slice because of the yellow and maroon colors. However, this pizza slice picture elicited emotions such as confusion, mellowness, joy, and a hope for a new beginning. After looking at this painting, we decided to head down to another floor where we saw more abstract art of propaganda during the cold war era. We saw uniforms of soldiers laying on the floor as if they had been positioned the way that dead people would be. This entire experience I would say was a very unique experience because we were 2 minutes late to sociology but overall it was good since we saw beautiful art.

Just us in front of a sculpture

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