MY second favorite museum

         
           Yesterday, I went to the Guggenheim museum.  It was really lovely and has a really cool set up. It's a spiraling museum that contain 7 floors of art. The paintings where really pretty though however some I didn't understand much of because the painting itself looked weird and sort of blob like. However it also caused me to pause at that specific blob like painting and try to figure it out like a jigsaw puzzle to see if it makes sense. I also like that fact that the museum gives you free audio tapes that tell you a little about the painting itself  when you punch in the specific number according to the painting.  This was really helpful in understanding.
          I recommend this museum because it is really awesome and when you're in the lobby and look upward it is really cool to see the spiral. Plus the painting are really nice and have their own flare of color and style. This would probably have to be my second favorite museum so far.

Museum of art & design



(interior entrence of art and design museum)

      On friday, along with the Frick collection, my class and I went to the Museum of art and design. It was also a cool museum because one design stuff ourselves in a craft room upstair. It was really cool to see how none of the designs that my class created was the same.  Another thing that really found my curiousity was the importated fabric that was in the museum. It was from Shangri La  and the Middle East. The three clothing designs that where on display where really nice and had alot of good details on it. It looked really complicated and I was shocked that the embroidery designs was actually sewn by hand. One was a a burgandy Robe with gold embroidery designs all throught the back. It was really special and it must of taken quite some time to make but the result was vey detailed. Probably worth the time it took. The Robe I later find out was a wedding robe. Brides would wear them when they where to marry. That must be a royal wedding then I assum.  The rugs design that hung on the wall next to the robes were pretty awesome too, very middle eastern looking. I loved the designs as well.
     I recomend this museum because it was really good and I liked it. However, I would of wanted to see more the museum and floors to get a better looks at all of the cultural displays there was in the museum. 

The Frick collection

(Entrance to the Frick collection museum)

 

     On friday, my class and I went to  the frick collection. A  Private museum located in Manhatten. It's really intresting how this museum came to be a museum to begin with. The museum started out as a house where a man named Henry clay Frick and his fmaily lived at.  Mr. Frick designed the house himself and highered the man who build the libaray in manhatten to build his house. when he died in 1919, in his will stated that his wife could live there until she died but then he wanted to turn his house into a museum.  So when Frick's wife died, the House was turned into a museum.      My two favorite parts of the Museum would probably have the garden when you first enter the museum through a small hall, with a fountain. My second favorite would prabably be the  boucher room where Frick's wife would get some alone time with her favorite painting that where imported and bought by her husband. The painting where of  doing different things  art or science related. It was really cute  because the paintings where of little kids probably no more then 4 or 5 maybe 6 yrs old doing adult jobs (not correctly if I may add which added to the cuteness.) 
    I recommend this museum (and it might even be safe to say this was my favorite museum as of now.) for many reasons. One because the paints and sculptures are amazing because one they are enormous  and they are protrits of important people through out history who  have story to tell us that one doesn't know about but they are intresting. and two, I admire how the collection is so privite and reserved like a house (no pun intended)  but really comfory and the interior design is really nice and well preserved  and everything is so neat and organized.
   The only think I would have to say that I didn't like is the fact you can't take pictures, but other then that, it really is a beautiful collection of paintings.

Brooklyn Museum..

      Today I went to the brooklyn museum and it was also entertaining. However I would still say that the MoMA museum would still be my favorite so far. Although I did enjoy a certain exhibit while in the Brooklyn museum. There was alot to see and it was really well organized. The lobby would probably be the best place to go first because it is sort of like a pre exhibt a mix or jumble of art from different places. My favorite part of the tour would probably be when we went inside a room where the artist does a process of taking a pictures then  doing a college with paint and rhinestones  on a huge canvas wall. It really colorful and cheerful  and the art has a meaning behind it or atleast a story of how the artisit was inspired to do this.
      I recommend it because it's a good museum and very festive in a way. It also has alot to looks and and all look very abstract.

Underground Subway ART....

(8th ave. subway)

    Today on our way to the MoMA museum, my class stopped to look at underground subway art. It was really cute because this was my first time ever seeing mini art sculptures in a  subway. I thought all the sculptures where really adorable because almost each one that I saw today where of little people representing something (like construction) I also thought the picture above was the very cute because the tool she's holding is bigger then her. It made me think of little people, BIG aspirations.
    So I say next time You take the subway on 8th ave, take a chance if you can and admires these little works of art that can brighten your day.

MoMA museum

(Inside The MoMa museum)

        Today I went to the MoMa museum with my class.  It was a really huge museum bigger then the Whitney actually and P.s.1.  It had a lot of different beautiful statutes and paintings. Some really entertained me because I spent like 10 solid minutes trying to figure out the meaning but couldn't find none. For example, A painting that caught my eye was called the Vertigo of Eros. It was very diverse and complicated to understand. It was a mixture of colors, values and shapes, swirls and lines. It was pretty ostrain because the picture did the meaning for me. It made what I knew strange and what was strange made me understand the picture sort of.  I still couldn't figure it out but what I took from it was it gave me the sense of lost and unknown. A different universe competing with the one we are living in a different reality where everything is strange to us but completely normal in their world.
       I really did like the museum and i do recommend it. If i had to say though, out of all the museums I've been too this would be my favorite as of now. I can't wait to see where we go tomorrow maybe that might be my favorite and this would get bumped to second best. However back on track, I would re-state that  I Recommend to visit the museum because it has a lot  of things on each floor and their are 6 floors total.

Whitney Museum

(Inside the Whintey museum)

     Today we went to the Whintey museum. It is a museum of modern art. When we went in, It was pretty big and spacious. It is also very unique and grand. The unique part was how the build and exibit was set up. sort of like a maze feild.  Out of the whole time spent there, 2 of the sulptures really captured my attention. Those two i would have to say where my favorite. One where enormous cigarrette  butt in an ash tray spilling over. The other was a chair covered in fake flowers. some of the painting also didn't quit make sense to me they also intrigued because they where so simple and everyday real life stuff (i.e, a bathroom or a heater) that it puzzled me.
    I recommend it because it's so cool how the building is set up and some of the suplutures aren't that fancy looking or heck even that pretty looking that you would even look twice at.  There are also different sized paintings and supluture for example walking down the stair in the museum the tour guide mention a sulputure that I didn't even notice until he pointed out to our group in a corner on top of a platform above the bottom of the stairs.

ART IN NYC...

MoMa Ps1

         As a  teen who loves art, it was a great opportunity to go vist ps1 yesterday with my school. I acutally got to see different types of  art even ones that i won't ever have considered art but it was there. The mussem was so diverse and magnificent  each room had it's own  art work or had a silimar theme. I had a favorites and some that I could live without as well. I also learned a new word Ostrain meaning turn strange to fimilar and fimilar to strange.
        My favorite would have to be the last exhibt we visited. I forgot the name but I believe it was located on the second floor. You can't mist it, it is a room on the side corner HUGE (in fact)  that is bright and contains many colors and is glittary and just fun to look at.
        Although, there was one exhibit I didn't like in particular was the first one we went to. It was a(n) animation which I am a fan of but in this one it didn't make sense to me and i could hardly hear it in a way. I had to get a person inturptation and explantion to the piece before i even remotly understood the symbolic meaning.

However, I do recomend it because of it's intresting art work as well as the building architecture was intresting because it used to be a school (hence the name Ps1.) I found that to be a neat fact.