Four days ago I bought a 12 inch by 10 yard roll of paper and started making a collage of random people from a flickr page for Tokyo fashion. I'm using a 03 black Micron and Artist's Loft pen.
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Almost everything I saw at the National Gallery of Art was absolutely phenomenal. Some of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's sculptures, Girl with a Shell and Neapolitan Fisherboy, were sculpted in such playful and interesting poses and looked so realistic. I focused on looking at sculptures to prepare for the quarter 3 projects and I loved Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse's Fantasy Bust of a Veiled Woman. Most of the sculpture looked realistic but the hair had dramatic volume and curly textures that looked well-sculpted. Winslow Homer's The Red School House was one of my favorites that day because of the subtle backlight. My favorite abstract piece that I saw on the trip was at the Hirshhorn Museum. It was one of Francis Bacon's pieces that looked like a scribbled mess but also looked like a slaughtered heap of animals or humans. It was strange and confusing, but I loved how I could still clearly recognize what everything was even though it looked very abstract and messy. Den Flavin's light exhibit was something that surprised me. I thought I didn't like installations, but Flavin's was amazing. Evelyn started flipping through her sketchbook in the neon blue light room and the neon colors inside her sketchbook started popped out because of the lights. Each room had a different color and there was a different mood in each of them.
It was really cool to see how much I learned in class when I could name certain artists and paintings, like that of El Greco's or Edward Hopper's. Seeing the actual size of the piece and the various textures on the surface made me appreciate galleries even more. It was nothing like the crude, pixelated, online images. Certain pieces I hated online looked absolutely phenomenal in person and vice versa. Some of my favorite pieces are down below. |
AuthorMaggie L. Walker Governor's School Student in Art IV. Archives
May 2017
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