Angela
Art 11
May 20, 2013
Museum Paper. Blog #10
In my Art 11 class I was asked to visit the museum and
review a modern art exhibit. I want to say that my experience at the museum was
a great experience, because I felt this new experience enriched my soul and
will be the beginning of visits here and other museums.
While I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art I noticed
that the modern era art exhibit did not have many sculptures. I believe this is
due to the fact that modern art uses more color and black and white painting.
Honestly, at first, I was uncomfortable at the museum, because I really did not
want to write a paper about it. After a while I was drawing the images that I
saw, I felt relaxed and my mind was at peace due to the silence of the museum.
The first painting that I am going to describe is Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Dale,
Dine out, 1924. According to my research, this painting was
made of oil on canvas, by the artist named Guy Pene du Bois. He was born in
1884 and died in 1958. He was an American-born French guy. I noticed that he
was straight by reading into his personal life through his painting. In the
painting he drew his first wife, Maud; she was a painter and a writer.
The painting shows him and his wife with a waiter at the fashionable
hotel Brevoort. I believe that one thing that makes him different from
the other two artists is that he was also a wealthy investment banker and
prominent art collector. There was a quote at the museum that caught my
attention which said, “Pene du Bois’s portrayls of New York’s high society between the wars
frequently record the telling body language of his protagonists”. I believe
this means that this artist interpreted his art through people’s body language
and reaction.
The second painting is Staatliches Bauhaus in Weima by
Walter Gropius. Walter Gropius was born in Germany in 1883 and died in 1969.
The book was published by the Bauhaus, preceding well known Bauhausbucher
proper of 1925. He had a unique way of using photography. The museum
references said that the Thuringian Legislative Assembly, which wished to have
a public display of the accomplishments of the first four years of his work.
They also mention that Gropius chose the theme, “Art and technique: a new
unity. This book was issued on the occasion of the great Weiner Bauhaus
exhibition of 1923.
The third artist is Morris Louis. He was born in the United States
in 1912 and died in 1962. He became a painter in the mid 1950’s. While I was
drawing his painting I was able to learn more about his historical way of
painting. He was known for his use of bright modern colors and washes of
synthetic paint. I was able to learn about his way of painting by the
references which said that Louis’s series of purely abstract works. They
include his unfurled works from 1951-1959 of which the present work is an
example. The painting demonstrated streaks of bold pigment, poured at angles to
the bottom corners of the support, leaving a large area of raw, unembellished
canvas at the center.
I saw works by three different artists using three
different materials, oil, photography, streaks of pigments. They were different
in their approach but they all had a story to tell in an abstract way. I guess
that is what modern art is about hints which let the observer come to
conclusions.
References
·
Guy Pene du Bois.
(1963). Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dale Dine out,
1963 Metropolitan Museum Modern art section.
· Walter Gropus. (1925). Steatliches Bauhaus. Metropolitan
museum section
· Morris Louis. Untitled (1960) .Metropolitan Museum modern
art section.
