Month: September 2017

Hi!! Everyone, welcome to my first blog in Baruch college.

My blog is about my experience at museum of modern art as known as MOMA. MOMA is a famous museum in the New York so i am really excited to visit here and enjoy the great artist work. MOMA has a free ticket time at Friday after 4pm. If you have the time, please don’t missing out.

Me and my friend get the free ticket and enter the first floor, there is a huge lobby and we take the elevator to the second, there is a helicopter hang in the midair. It called Bell 47D1 helicopter which it designed and produced in 1945 and has been used for crop dusting.

In the other room, there are differents structures and artist works. On the table, there are many ipad and people can use it to create the 3D paint and the children can play the  puzzles. Many kids like to do the puzzle which it can help them to create their imagination. In addition, we saw a lot of ancient art and tools which it came from different age and different country. I admired the ancients can create those tools without the  advance technique.

When we go to upstairs and see many inconceivable paint. Actually i don’t understand what is the paint meaning, but the annotation is help me a lot, when i looking the artist work, i can image the background of the artist and reflect on it. This paint is weird, a human and a lot of colors, i see the annotation and i get it that is the paint meaning the history .

My most favorite paint is the starry night , it painted by Vincent V an Gogh. This paint shows a highly exaggerated deformation and the starry night. The huge and curly cloud is near the big yellow moon. When i see a while, my mood become depressed . This is why this paint can be most famous paint in the world.

MOMA is a amazing museum, i will visit again!

During the weekend I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my friend John, we chose this museum because of its location, it is near central park. Originally we decide to visit the central park after we are done with our tour in the museum, but we decided to go home because it was getting late after we were done with our tour. The museum is separate to different zones or areas and one of my favorite part of the museum is the Asian Art because I learned a lot about Asian history not only china but different parts such as Japan, India, and etc. And i liked the arms and armor because i see these all cool armors in different time periods, and one of my favorite armor was the one during the Edo period, but i don’t have a picture because of some reason, but overall that armor is the best out of all these different armor because of its style and how it looks from the outside and i can imagine the person using this armor during war time because during the Edo period it was a time when people fight for land and war happens often during this time period.

In one of the exhibits i found this scary looking Indian god sitting there, it looks real and it made me think like the statue was looking at me because of the light, it was dark and the light level was pretty low making it feel like it is piercing through eye and looking at you with his/her sight. And the name of this statue was Seated Four-Armed Vishnu, it was created in the Pandya dynasty during the second half of the 8th century to the early 9th century. This tour that I had was a great experience that I have enjoyed with my new friend John, and it was an interesting journey because the last time i have been to this museum was with my fellow classmates during my middle school year and now when i visit it again it has a different feeling compared to the last time i visited.

   

I went to The Museum at FIT(Fashion Institute of Technology) last Friday.The Museum at FIT is best known for its innovative and award winning special exhibitions.It is really a cool place.The designer use the ideas of aviary,physical forces,and The science of attraction to design the fashion collections.For example,Feathers are the defining features of birds,affording them an alluring sense of mystery and beauty.Their expressive and kinetic qualities have captured the human imagination for millennia.Fashion designers have exploited these qualities to create garments.Maria Mitchell,the first female astronomer in the US. said that science is”Discoveries about the universe fascinate humankind.They take hold in our culture,where they are celebrated ,revered,and even feared.And they find expression not only in textbooks ,but in our art and,of course,our clothing and textiles.”

       Some collections are gorgeous and with special meaning of them.I am interested in fashion,that is a good way to check out the styling and history.The museum is free and incredible exhibits.Amazing work from some of the worlds most famous designers.It is a small place but it spend me 40 minutes to read the introduction and really into fashion.And I learned that the designers idea from the natural,history even the science.That makes me give up the dream of a fashion designer because it is so complex.And I really want to have that beautiful dress.

Since all student go to museums for free, I could not miss this great opportunity. During my visits to various museums I have seen many different exhibitions, some of which were shocking, while others were definitely pleasant to my taste. And this time I’ve decided to visit Whitney Museum, where I’ve been a few times before. The most memorable exhibition I have seen was the placement of red cubes on the balcony. And the reason why I like it so much is that each next cube becomes more and more transparent. Plus, these cubes really stand out on the pictures. The new exhibition of beach and straw fences that they have displayed, reminded me of my home country. I have used to go to vacations, where beaches would have very similar structure. There my nostalgia devoured me completely. What was also fun to see is that they had a pool table right near the beach. What an interesting decision!

What I liked there is that on the upper floors they have vast array of different pictures. And I found some of my favorite painters like J. Pollock and E. Hopper. I was wandering around and found so many great artists that inspired me and in some cases made me change my ideas on art.

Even though Whitney museum does have a variety of pleasant and light presentations, it is also very scary and alarming place. Bitten and bloody parts of human body are displayed near the main staircase, empty dark rooms with disturbing content, and the whole atmosphere seems very heavy even though the space is light and spacious.

Despite this, I really enjoyed my experience at Whitney museum and will definitely visit it again in the future.

 

 
Last Friday the September 8th, I went to American Flok Art Museum. It is a free museum for all. In the front of the entrance there are a lot of brochures and by reading them I have learned that American Flok Art Museum is the premier institution devoted to the creative expressions of self-taught artists,past, and present- artists of diverse backgrounds, origins, inspirations, and goals. And since 1961, the museum has been shaping the understanding of art by the self-taught fro the revolutionary era to today. By showcasing the ongoing creativity of individuals whose singular talents have been refined through experience rather than formal artistic training, the museum consideres the historical, social, and artistic context of American visual culture. The museum’s collection holds more than 8,000 artworks dating from the eighteen century to the present, including early American portraits, painted furniture, and twenty-first centuries; the art of the American south, by African American masters such as bill Traylor, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, and other.

As I went through the museum, there is a little shop on the left side of the entrance, very small but full of creative hand-made art such as books, postcards, and some fabrics. In the middle of the exhibition hall of the museum, there is a painting of a lady making the quilts. Because during this season the museum is  exhibiting the “quilts”. This paint is called “Strippy Quilt”. And there is a story on the wall which says this complex quilt was made by a soldier who was not a professional tailor. It shocked me, because the quilts seems to be made very professional.

I never learned American tranditional culture like this before. It is new and fresh for me. I will learn more about past American art in the future. It was a wonderful experience for me.

Out of all the choices I have, I’ve decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art near central park. Together with my friend, we visited this museum full of relics of the history. From Egyptian Art to Medieval armors and arms, modern American paintings to European sculptures, Asian art to Japanese bamboo art, each sections brings out a distinctive feeling of the period.

Specifically, my favorite among all the masterpieces was the “Seated Four-Armed Vinshnu”. It is originated in India, Pandya Dynasty, during the early 9th century. This four armed statue has its own unique significance. His role in Hinduism is to preserved the world and is portrayed as a war god that descend to the earth to battle the evil. With each arm holding a different weapon; his raised left hand, he held as shankha(conch battle trumpet), his lower left hand rests, his upper right hand held a chakra, and his lower right hand would be in a gesture that exorcise the evil. It portrays it with such great strength that makes the people feel safe; nothing is better than peace. Most importantly, it is my favorite because Vinshnu is said to be sitting on a lion throne even it can not be seen fully. However, I can imagine how mighty it could be. Other honorable mention was the Armor for Man and Horse. This colossal army caught my eyes once I entered the Arms and Armor section. I can already felt the triumph of riding on armed horse. At last, with one regret, not being able to find the sculpture of Arthur Pendragon(King Arthur) and Excalibur. Regrets aside, it was a fun day spending quality time with my new college friend Dianyuan and bring our friendship together :D.

For my Academic Blog, I decided why not make the best of this opportunity, by getting help in math and at the same time I will get the blog done. I registered for it and was happy to learn more and because this was my first time going there, I was excited. It took place on Saturday the 9th of September from 10am to 12pm. When I woke up that day I had forgotten that I had to go because usually on Saturdays I wake up late. I had finally realized and so had to rush everything because it takes one hour to get there. Once I left my house, I thought the day will get better but it only got worse.

As I took the first train, there was a lot of train traffic so the train kept stopping, but I was happy that I got off the train by 9:30 because I thought I would never make it to the stop. But that wasn’t the worst. As I went down the stairs to catch the next train I realize, they blocked it from going to the station. So when I asked the workers, they said I have to take the bus(shuttle) for that train, but the problem with that was that it didn’t stop where I needed to get off, it stopped near but that near was still far. So I left the station and decided to turn on my maps and see what I can do, as I did that, I realized it’s 9:40 already and that I only have 20 minutes to get there. So I decided to walk to college from West 4th street, which was a lot but it’s better than waiting for transportation. It was about 22 streets, but I somehow made it there by 10:10 and the class had already started but thankfully they let me go in.

The instructor was good at explaining the concepts thoroughly, which helped me a lot. He went over Limits and Continuity that we were working on in class, so it made my homework even easier to understand and do. After the two hours I felt like I can take a test on limits and continuity right now and get an A on it. After I was done with it, again the transportation got me tight. I had to change up to 5 trains just to come home because many trains were following another route. So for me this day was when I learned a lot, whether it be math or how to come back home or go to college, when trains stop commuting.

 

       For my blog post I decided to visit the NY Hall of science. I went during the free hours which were from 10-11AM. I also brought my sister with me. I am a person who loves science, so visiting this museum gave me pleasure. There were so many amazing aspects to it..

      My favorite part was when I created soap bubbles. It was really fun to create the bubbles. There was also a soap film painting. There was white light that was reflected from the back and front of the soap film which caused different colors. It was beautiful to look at because it looked like water.

    I also learned something new. I learned the humans are not adept to walk on two legs but are more adept to walk with four. However, after they developed over time humans began to walk on two legs so they would be able to carry tools and equipment with their hands. I didn’t knowthat hence, learning about this was very fascinating to me.

    Another thing I learned was that many people lack the enzyme necessary to digest lactose, it’s a sugar in milk. This depends on the genes that are inherited from over past ancestors. Also, people who are able to digest milk as adults inherited from their ancestors who raised dairy animals. However,  people who cannot inherited genes from their ancestors who did not raise dairy animals.

      The picture that I attached was when I was at the  colored shadows section. The motive was to demonstrate that shadows are not only black or white but they can also be colored.

    I would recommend the NY hall of science to my friends and peers because a lot of people assume that science is a boring topic but after visiting this museum it allows your perspective to change.