The museum is a very interesting place where amazing exhibits are around you.While entering the museum and exploring the different art one drawing seemed to catch my eye the most. The title of the drawing was called “Dying Solider”. In this piece of art their were three working people in the drawing. It was a man portraying a janitor, an older lady scrubbing hardwood floors, and a woman taking care of an infant. Those three descriptions of the images makes me realize how hard an African American house hold had to work.
One painting that caught my attention was the Oak Valley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana. Last month while I was on vacation in New Orleans, I visited an old authentic Creole plantation in the same area of the plantation in the painting. I was told by my sisters who visited the place that it was oak trees unique formation that made
The painting hanging on the red wall of Mills Center was something that I had never noticed before. I walk past the Mills Center at least four times each week and not seeing such an incredible piece of art demonstrates how ignorant I can be. This painting is an artwork titled “Arrival in Jerome” by Henry Sugimoto, who is best known for his depictions of the wartime internment experience, many of his paintings executed while he was confined at the Jerome and Rohwer camps. Sugimoto represents Japanese-Americans who loved the United States and worked so hard for the country, but were imprisoned and denied their basic rights during World War II. The painting
This Summer, I had the opportunity to spend my entire break attending conferences and interning at a lab at UCSD so I thought to myself I would never have the time to visit any art museum or do my summer assignments for that matter. That was until I realized I was living at a campus who had an art piece practically on every corner of their six colleges. I then began my journey, on scooter, to discover the hidden and the not so hidden gems The Stuart Collection at UCSD had to offer. It was then that I fell in love with 2 specific art pieces throughout the campus, those being Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star, which depicts an immigrant’s transition into American culture, and Kiki Smith’s Standing, which depicts a seemingly tortured woman.
Featured and organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Romare Bearden’s collection is one that appreciates and depicts life for what it really is. Bearden did not like abstract expressionism. Instead, he made many collages depicting life with different perspectives, allowing the viewer to see reality, but also try to figure out the true meaning that Bearden meant to portray in the collage that was not directly seen by just looking at the picture. These collages were made by “Cut and pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, pencil, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and pen and ink on Masonite” (MET Museum). Bearden liked telling narratives within these collages involving Harlem life. Whether it was on the streets, inside
All of his sixty paintings show that African American in the south had a hardship of work, the long journey that African Americans take to reach their destination and sadness of leaving their home and the new life that awaited. In the painting that shows the hardship of works it shows the sadness of their face and some of them with their heads and back forward and carrying baskets loads of product. The painting of the Long journey shows African Americans walking through dry fields as sunset is setting and in the new life painting it shows a family looking out through a train with happiness in their face as they see new land. This reflects to the many immigrants that are coming from different parts of the world presently and seeing new opportunities and with leaving there is a purpose and take a long journey such as Nayo and Milto in the film Wet Backs : The Undocumented documentary for the new life that was before them. But there are struggles that were portrayed in this series of panting being that on one painting it had a group of people mistreating and beating an African American. There was also racial injustice with cops and the people of the U.S have seen many stories still happening presently with many deportations and this connects to the Arizona policy to deport as many as one-hundred thousand undocumented
In an exhibit along the wall to the left of a house-like exhibit, behind a small, white picket fence, shows the furniture that the patron would commonly see in the great depression era home that consist of a 1930s sewing machine table and a well-worn vintage 1930s record player. On the wall above this exhibit has some vintage black and white photos taken throughout the great depression era that capture the hardships that most people encountered with the difficulties with farming and breathing, the dark cloud of the loose earth rolling in, and the aftermath once the dirt finally settled and shows how everything laid buried in a deep mound of dirt, like the large piles of snow seen after a winter blizzard. The house-like exhibit consists of a characteristic 1930s living room that contain items like family heirlooms and old photographs. The museum patron can walk up on the porch and walk in the front door as if walking into an actual home. Upon stepping inside, the patron will see stuff like old vintage photos, a rocking chair, a couch, and a desk. He will also see an antique 1930’s radio on a small table by a chair and listen to it play the 1930s era radio programs, songs, and news
After visiting the UNLV Majorie Barrick Museum, I was especially drawn to two specific pieces of artwork. The first artwork to be discussed will be Red Groom’s Bicentennial Bandwagon (1975). The second artwork to be discussed will be The 1920s – The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots (1974), by Jacob Lawrence.
My artifacts are from the exhibit “Life and Labor: The Photographs of Milton Rogovin” by Milton Rogovin. My first artifact is Untitled from the series “Working People: Ford,” the second artifact is Untitled, from the series “Working People: Atlas Steel, Frank Andrzewski,” and lastly is Untitled from the series “Lower West Side, Buffalo.” Milton Rogovin is a man from Buffalo, New York who referred to himself as a social-documentary photographer who focused on the people he called “the forgotten ones,” the working class of America. His photos recorded the changing multi-ethnic and working class communities, where he would set up take a photo of someone during their job and then of them inside their homes where the person chose how the photograph
Jack Whitten’s piece, Martin Luther King’s Garden (1968), is an abstract painting that is dedicated to Martin Luther King for his role in the development of civil rights movement. This painting is made of an oil painting, giving more variations in colors and shades. The painting has various vibrant colors, making the piece more abstract. The subject of the piece is to commemorate Martin Luther King and to honor his greatness as a civil leader. He was an important subject during the period when this painting was drawn because it was the year when he was assassinated.
The work has been put together very well according to the elements and principles of art. The lines in the art work are very bold and revealing. The lines are clearly outlining the wounded soldier and what is movements and actions are at the current time of him being painted. The colour of this art work is in black and white but even though it is in black and white Dix has done a good job of telling us what things are
As a 22-year veteran of the uniformed services walking through the Carroll Reese museum, I was instantly and obviously drawn toward the Prisoner of War (POW) exhibit. However, even those not associated with the military would be drawn in by the impact of the images and arrangement of the exhibit. It is arranged so that a museum patron has to walk through the POW exhibit to progress further into the museum, which highlights the centerpiece of the exhibit—the missing man table. This simple table summarizes the whole exhibit, solidifies it, and leaves an ache in your soul just by viewing it. This is due largely to its placement within the exhibit.
In this exhibit, Thomas Hart Benton attempts to give an understanding of the working class American. During the 1920’s and 1930’s the Great Depression crippled the American population. Due to this, the working class had been pushed back and were struggling to survive. Benton’s father had described to him the life in rural America so Benton felt the need to go back to the roots of this country and share them in a more mainstream setting. I viewed this exhibit at our university art gallery, on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I walked in by myself and walked through the halls with my headphones on, ready to experience the art. I had read about what the lithographs might look like and represent, so going in I had this one idea in my head. A lithograph
There has been worldwide Controversy over a painting done by Dana Schutz titled, Open Casket. Open Casket is an abstract painting of a young black 14-year old boy who was murdered and mutilated by two white men because he was mistakenly accused of flirting with a 21-year-old white women. The painting portrays the face of Slain Emmett Till lying dead in his coffin. The controversial painting was displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The protest began when an African American Artist, Parker Bright started a peaceful protest in front of the painting wearing a “Black Death Spectacle” shirt. Since then many others have come to protest and block people from seeing the open casket painting. Protesters argue that a white women does not have the right to create art around a “black matter subject”. Dana Schutz has argued that the painting was meant to show the distress of a mother losing her son. Overall the painting does bring back an excruciating and defining moment in African American history. The painting is very beautiful and simple but because I am not of African descent I’m sure I cannot relate to the many year of being treated poorly, racism and slavery. I overall side that Dana Schutz painting should not be disapproved of. This is not the only occurrence of an artist portraying a violent event in history through art. The painting does not mock the tragic event and the painting could be used as a memorial for Slain Emmett Till mother who wanted the casket to be left
Art can be used as a way of reaching out to preach about racial prejudices. “Excuse Me, Can I see Your ID?” is an art exhibit created by Lonnie Lee. Lee is an Asian-American woman who designed this museum as means of showing the harsh truth Asian-Americans face on the daily. ““Excuse Me, Can I See Your ID? is not intended for the white gaze.” (Frank). This exhibit shows what the white-dominated art world does not. Each piece of work tells the story of different individuals and their struggles of what it is like conforming in America where Asians are viewed as “perpetual foreigners”. From one medium to another, the Black Arts Movement, which lasted from 1965 to 1975, was a great impact on society. Following the assassination of Malcolm X, black people came together to protest their liberty. While it had the most effect in theatre and poetry, African Americans spoke their minds through literature, visual arts, and music. Not only reaching cultural recognition and economic success, the Black Arts Movement brought about modern-day hip hop and spoken word.
While visit the African Burial Grounds I considered my self to be witness what these people went through. Throughout the museum there were different stories that depicted tremendous suffering. There was a particular picture that stood out to me and it was of when African Americans were taken from Africa to be transported to the United States. The picture showed African Americans being thrown over board because they were dead, sick, or about to die.