Sunday, October 11, 2009
Collections
Two images of nuts I found wandering around the grounds at my work. I scaned them on my home scanner and this is how they came out with little to no editing in photoshop. I found the images to be kind of interesting, and almost unidentifiable as nuts but this is probably due to my fairly basic scanner. Tomorrow I will try scanning them on the more high tech ones they have at the tech center.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Art Experiences
The week I was quite busy and had trouble making it out to some kind of outside art experience. I really wanted to go First Friday in Olde City and check out what was happening in the galleries, but I was really worn out after work so I decided to just rest that night.
I don't know if this counts as an outside art experience, but I do work at an art gallery as a visitor representative, I work Fridays and weekends at the Barnes Foundation in Merion. During my break I decided to browse through the gallery because I often don't a chance to look around because I'm so busy dealing with the visitors.
Most of the Art on display is French Post-Impressionists works, with some artifacts from around the world and and various time periods such as the ancient Egypt relics.
My favorite piece to see is The Postman by Vincent Van Gogh. The colors are very vibrant, it's interesting to the sort of trademark of Van Gogh, the small strokes of color that are used to build up the from and face of the "Postman" and the sense of movement that is created from those brushstrokes.
It's always an entirely different experience to see a print of something and to see the actually painting. I consider myself very lucky to have gotten such a great opportunity to be surrounded by such amazing piece of art on a weekly basis, and getting paid to do so is not so bad either!
I don't know if this counts as an outside art experience, but I do work at an art gallery as a visitor representative, I work Fridays and weekends at the Barnes Foundation in Merion. During my break I decided to browse through the gallery because I often don't a chance to look around because I'm so busy dealing with the visitors.
Most of the Art on display is French Post-Impressionists works, with some artifacts from around the world and and various time periods such as the ancient Egypt relics.
My favorite piece to see is The Postman by Vincent Van Gogh. The colors are very vibrant, it's interesting to the sort of trademark of Van Gogh, the small strokes of color that are used to build up the from and face of the "Postman" and the sense of movement that is created from those brushstrokes.
It's always an entirely different experience to see a print of something and to see the actually painting. I consider myself very lucky to have gotten such a great opportunity to be surrounded by such amazing piece of art on a weekly basis, and getting paid to do so is not so bad either!
Trip to the PMA
Because of some scheduling issues, I have not been able to attend the foundation lecture series. So instead I've taking a few art-related excursions to make up for that loss.
Though I forgot to document it here on my blogger, last weekend I took a trip to the Philadelphia Art Museum for an assignment for my Art Heritage Class. For the assignment we were travel through the galleries of European Art (1100-1500) and then compose a paper on the importance of the curatorial decisions made.
During my trip I saw many interesting pieces of those period works. Especially intriguing was the Virgin and Child in a Landscape by Master of the Embroidered Foliage. The hyper-detail included in the piece from ornate trim of the Virgin’s dress, to the actual words of the pages of the book held in her hand, and to the individual leaves upon trees and each painstaking blade of grass, it is just amazing. It’s Mind-blowing really, to just think about the time, patience and precision that must have went into this piece, it’s really hard to fathom.
Straying from my project, I explored a few of the European Art 1850-1900 galleries. My favorite piece hands down was At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was just really lovely, with a myriad of warm yet softly subdued colors, and energetic lines. I kept coming back to it as I made my way through the galleries.
I also really enjoyed the prints and drawings, the fine etching and pen and ink works where really inspiring to see.
All in all my trip to the PMA was extremely worthwhile as always.
Though I forgot to document it here on my blogger, last weekend I took a trip to the Philadelphia Art Museum for an assignment for my Art Heritage Class. For the assignment we were travel through the galleries of European Art (1100-1500) and then compose a paper on the importance of the curatorial decisions made.
During my trip I saw many interesting pieces of those period works. Especially intriguing was the Virgin and Child in a Landscape by Master of the Embroidered Foliage. The hyper-detail included in the piece from ornate trim of the Virgin’s dress, to the actual words of the pages of the book held in her hand, and to the individual leaves upon trees and each painstaking blade of grass, it is just amazing. It’s Mind-blowing really, to just think about the time, patience and precision that must have went into this piece, it’s really hard to fathom.
Straying from my project, I explored a few of the European Art 1850-1900 galleries. My favorite piece hands down was At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was just really lovely, with a myriad of warm yet softly subdued colors, and energetic lines. I kept coming back to it as I made my way through the galleries.
I also really enjoyed the prints and drawings, the fine etching and pen and ink works where really inspiring to see.
All in all my trip to the PMA was extremely worthwhile as always.
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