Fashion Underground: The World Of Susanne Bartsch

Fashion has been a prominent aspect of a woman’s life throughout time. Women of different times and cultures have turned the routine of picking out clothes and putting together different ensembles into a sort of art, or a way to express and promote themselves. Many women also see fashion as part of their identity, or a way to manipulate the way people see them. What a woman wears can drastically change the way society views her - it can increase her chances of getting a job, or make her gain respect (or rejection) from her peers (Sika n.p.).

This was evidently appreciated by the audience as it permitted them to understand the background of the piece better. Correspondingly, being that there wasn’t a conductor, the body language was interesting to watch, as the performers organized and timed themselves accordingly. I found that the passion in the duo was more prominent than in past concerts. You could see this reflect on the audience as after the end of every piece, the audience couldn’t help but burst into applause as the passion and exhilaration built up till the very end of the pieces. Moreover, the pieces that where performed felt more intriguing using a wider range of music styles, from jazz to classical waltz. Therefore, the pieces ranged in dynamics, tone and mood evoking many more moods and

Late on Wednesday night, my phone ringed. It was a text message from my friend Pedro, “Do you want to visit an art museum tomorrow”. Knowing I needed to go, I texted him back quickly, “pick me up after your class tomorrow and we can adventure to The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro”. After Pedro’s class, we explored the museum observing multiple art works, and I was invoked by three, art pieces. All three were different and intriguing in their own way. For instance, the painting that is on top of the cover page with all the wavy hair was painted by Catherine Murphy and is known as the “Frosted”. This painting was very delightful because of its unique elements. Second, the sculpture in the middle of the cover page is an image of a wooded animal. This sculpture was crafted by Deborah Butterfield and is recognized as Lunalilo. Also, at the bottom of the cover page is a sculpture constructed by Dan Graham, the sculpture was known as Triangle Solid with

     As I walked into the first gallery, I saw a wood sculpture that stood in the

Christian Louboutin once said “a shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk”. Similarly, author Diane Riva discusses this idea in her essay “Exposed Toes”. Riva takes a compelling approach to her argument believing that shoes are not just part of your wardrobe rather they are your identity. For Riva, her black sneakers represent her career life as they are the shoes she wears to work, her boat shoes resemble her connection with nature, her high-heel dress shoes speak for her elegance, her sandals represent her spontaneous self and lastly her “shoes of choice” are her natural feet as they represent everything about Riva’s world and go with her everywhere. Overall, Riva express that her shoes are her identity and each pair resemble apart of her character.

The ingenuity of the composition is that it used a lot of tricks in the layout of the elements, meanwhile being rendered very simply and concisely. The artist realized that the eye does not settle naturally on the center of a painting and that

With works in every known medium, from every part of the world, throughout all points in history, exploring the vast collection of the Museum of Modern Art was an overwhelming experience. The objects in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts are an important historical collection, reflecting the development of a number of art forms in Western Europe. The department's holdings covered sculpture in many sizes, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, jewelry, and tapestries. The gallery attracted my appreciation of the realistic qualities of the human body often portrayed in sculpture.

The permanent collection contains sculptures from both contemporary and ancient times, icon paintings, portraits and self-portraits, and landscapes. Some specific examples include “Nude Combing Her Hair” by Pablo Picasso, “Portrait of Hendrik III, Count of Nassau-Breda” by Mabuse (Jan Gossart), a statue called “Woman Addressing the Public” by Joan Miro that sits just outside the museum to welcome people coming to the museum, and a Reliquary Arm (unknown designer from 12th century). I’m not sure I can pinpoint an overall theme for the exhibition,

The rows of glass cases filled with artifacts models the traditional history museum – lots of stuff with very little explanation. It interprets the story with items for relational experience. Despite the antique approach to subject interpretation, the designers incorporated an interactive level. It gives the viewer the option to explore the museum according to individual preferences. Other characteristics generally considered as a good, interactive exhibit include bringing the subject to life - the ability take a mugshot and view the tales of imprisoned women; developing a clear point – artifacts showing a hard life at the prison; making the trip memorable - talking to ghosts from the cell blocks or standing in the famous locations. Each aspect synthesizes with the other to create the experience of visiting the original territorial prison.

It showcases the dense, extensive and delicate connections in the artist’s experimental practices, which includes performance, installations, prints, photographs, films and paintings. The show reveals the transgression with the thematically structured six main galleries with an impressive display of Parr’s diaries in the foyer, films in the theatre and the artist’s archive, ‘Information Centre’. According to Parr, he said, “But in the foyer, I must say, there’s this rather beautiful pop-up space, which is nearly confined entirely to language pieces, and outside this space on the curved wall we’ve got 40 beautiful vitrines..and I’ve displayed 45 years of diaries. So the foyer’s got all of this text, and it’s very intimate.” The diaries were a very clever idea that gave a lot of help to the audience in terms of better understanding of the

But, I also agree with the movement directed towards moving away from a Euro-centric view, but that should by no means discredit and limit the size of the exhibit. As introduced earlier in the report, the artwork was mainly consistent of portraiture painting, not giving a lot of variety to the other styles of artwork at the time such as landscape, still life, drawings, architecture, and sculpture. Although art was mainly representative of the wealthy during this time, it would have been nice to see more common–life paintings that bring in the connection to the average person visiting an admission free museum. The price for admission was nothing to scoff at, due to the high quality pieces on display, admission should be taken to make the museum appear more prestigious. In general, however, the museum was well-kept and cleaned thoroughly, but the majority of commentary on the artwork must have been seen as trite, as there is not a lot of commentary. For the general accessibility and these positive gems of artwork, I was thoroughly impressed to find such a great repository of the

The museum has done an effective job of putting its strengths out front. It creates unique, engaging exhibits, by comparing and contrasting the work of Still with the work of the work of more well known artists who respected him. It advertises its facility as a work of art in its own right

On the museum’s website, it allows us to get a better insight into its art collection and provides us with essential information of the institution. The design of the museum’s

By using mixed materials such as silicon, fabric and plastic Ron Mueck to created the diminutive and brilliantly realistic sculpture of two elderly women. Ron Mueck dresses and threads each hair into the heads of the sculpture, which further the uncanny realistic look of his artwork.

There were many other things that influenced fashion