Bob Emser Analysis

When we enter a space such as a church or chapel, the architecture and decor add to our experience. We are often led to reflect and even question our morals, values, and belief system. Sometimes a space can even take us away from our hectic lives and place us in a safe haven or make us feel as if we are somewhere else, such as Heaven. The theological vision varies between each cathedral or church, depending on the location, creator, and time period. Each space provides us with a different journey.

James Turrell is an American artist who works with light and the world around him to create architecture and unique experiences. He uses light to shape space. A tunnel called The Light Inside located in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston Texas is created entirely by light. The Light Inside allows people to escape from their everyday lives. He is also designing the Roden Crater. The crater lets visitors experience space and earth the way physics intended it to be by making the visitor feel the Earth move and rotate, and not stars. Turrell is designing light and views to make people feel as if they are one with the universe Another design he created was a meeting house for worshiped that used light to guide visitors on their spiritual journey. He focuses on the experience of the viewer and what they feel and allows people who visit his art to fully immerse themselves in his work to feel the whole effect and magnitude.

At first glance the large-scaled canvass demands your attention. As the distance between the observer and the canvass close you are drawn in like a moth to light. To the right center of the work is a winged angel wearing a flawless white dress with open arms inviting all to be a part of what has happened. There is a golden glow of color that surrounds the curvature of her head. As you come to rest in the waiting arms you are no longer a spectator, you have now become a participant. Its massive size gives an understanding that there is room for anyone who wishes to take it in as truth. Now drawn in you realize there are many winged angels that recede to give the two-dimensional work depth. They too have the same golden glow that encompasses their heads. Their wings take on the same lustrous colored dress that covers their bodies. The dresses are solid in

For my enrichment report, I decided to take a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum. However, I was trapped with the challenging choice of choosing only one museum for my cultural visit. Since, there are so many prodigious and amazing museums to choose from to visit in the county. But, I have heard many great feedbacks about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from fellow classes mates, friends and family. So, I finally, had my destination set to and planned a visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Upon my visit my attention was already fixated on the unique building layout and the many arts exhibited located all around the outside of the museum building. There were several building that housed the many different art exhibits. Such as the first building I walked into, after purchasing a ticket. This building was called the “Ahmanson” building, which housed voluminous and diverse art of the European, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian Art, Art of the Ancient World, Art of the Pacific and Others. There were also many special exhibitions that was hosted at the time of my visit, such as the modern art gallery and Rifkin Gallery for German Expressionism. One of the sculpture centered in the middle of the building of the “Ahmanson” building called “Smoke” really caught my attention. As it quite an enigmatic and stunning metal sculpture that mesmerizes illusions based on your interpretation and perspective of the piece.

In the face of this sculpture, it is abstracted into a cross, suggest a helmet, an appropriate reference for the war-hungry futurists. The figure seems to have no arms, though seems to have a wing-like forms. However, these protrusions do not need to be a part of the figure itself. The fire-shape of this sculpture that begin to show the air swirling away from the body

This journal will be analyzing Chris Bobel’s discussion of natural mothering, a form of attachment parenting in which the mother emphasizes on physical contact with her child as well as voluntarily decides to have a simplistic lifestyle that minimizes consumption (). In other words, natural mothers typically value home births, homeschooling, breastfeeding, and homegrown produce ().

This sculpture is a three dimensional sculpture that has a great location for its background. A recreational center is a place where children go to have fun and play. The boy in the sculpture is showing how much fun he is having at the rec center. Most importantly this sculpture shows how great the environment of the city is great for a family with children to live in. Just as important the monument depicts how important art is to the community of Brighton.

Outside in the front lawn of the Nelson museum, I found the big, architectural structures, the Shuttlecocks, were very eye appealing, and caught my attention immediately. They were four shuttlecocks, built in 1994 of aluminum, and fiberglass-reinforced plastic, that are painted white and orange. The sculptures looked to me as some sort of structural pop art, to possibly represent the fun outdoors in people’s daily lives.

While walking through the Aboriginal Arts Exhibition, my eye being drawn to the diversity of works that filled the rooms, one piece stood out to me above the rest. Troy Firebrace’s “A Galaxy Swirl” is an explosion of bright colours and patterns against a black canvas representing the dark, vast emptiness of space.

This artwork most closely resembles a line from Ralph Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” and his transcendentalist philosophy. Emerson states that “[a] man should learn to detect … that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within … [y]et he dismisses [it] without notice … because it is his” The gleam of light, as described by Emerson, resembles the colors that protrude from the heads of the figures within Johanson’s artwork. None of the figures in the painting seem to notice this light that sprouts from within them, and is dismissed, as Emerson states it, in the form of ominous darkness. Furthermore, the transcendentalist philosophy that promotes individuality is well applied within Johanson’s artwork within the unique figures that stand out of the crowd; their thoughts however, alongside the

Cloud Gate was unique to me as its surface allows you to see your reflection, which is then distorted and warped as you walk past the different sections. The reflection of Chicago’s skyline is also visible but the elliptical shape of the sculpture distorts and twists it throughout. This unique piece of artwork allows the viewer to be a part of the artwork along with the rest of the spectators whose reflections are just as distorted across its surface. The omphalos, or concave chamber on the underside of the sculpture, adds even more distortion to the reflections. Both elliptic and hyperbolic geometry was used to achieve an illusionary quality to the sculpture. The sculpture was inspired by liquid mercury, which I believe was very appropriate as its shape and exterior mirrored the consistency and shiny, silver appearance of a liquid metal. Its shape gives the viewer a sense that it’s floating above its foundation and the fact that it’s barely touching the ground made me think it was light. In reality, it weighed over 100 tons!

This sculpture is formed by different sizes canvas which put together in order to create three-dimensions. The artist used welded steels as the outline of each canvas. The outline of each canvas pieces is the curved line and straight line, and each four outline to create an irregular rectangle or square. None of them is the same size. The artist used red copper wires to connect with each welded steel. The frame of this work is a rectangle shape and the sculpture itself is an oval shape in general. It is definitely a non-traditional sculpture in the 1960s. Although the oval shape sculpture is not perfectly symmetric, it still in the balance. The outer layer on the top right is balanced with the two pieces on the lower left. This creates a sense of movement to the

Let’s look at the sculpture itself. There is a naked man sitting in a deep thought or concentration. The figures back is arch and the hands have curled fingers resting under the chin. Notice the muscular back and shoulders. We saw this in the paintings I talked about the other day with “The Oath on the Tennis Court” – The muscular bodies show a sign of strength and power.

Out of all the public sculptures I have had the pleasure of viewing, the one that intrigued me the most was the sculpture located in Southside Park named Port of Call: Earth which was created by Joe Scarpa. The piece towers over both the playground and the lake that surround it. The sculpture itself is a representational model that depicts a chrome spaceship silhouetted against the sky. The spaceship is not rigid, for it barely uses any straight lines, instead making use of curves throughout most of the piece. The spaceship is decorated with ventilation tubing, spiral chimney caps, windows, engines, and a satellite on the front. It even has small sculptures of alien creatures inside and on top of the piece. All of

Visit any major museum of art, at any given time, and one could find an abundance of monumental names listed on tiny plaques hanging next to even more recognizable works of art. The excitement felt by any art enthusiast when walking into these buildings of time and creation, is undeniable and especially unique. Could it be the atmosphere of the building, the presence of artwork, the people, possibly the grandeur of the space, or perhaps, could it be the spirit of the artists themselves, peering through the work they created?