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150 words I chose the Latin American section. 100 words I found the temporary exhibit a little weird. What do you think the museum administration and / or exhibit curators want you to learn or gain from the exhibit?
150 words I chose the Latin American section. 100 words I found the temporary exhibit a little weird. What do you think the museum administration and / or exhibit curators want you to learn or gain from the exhibit?
150 words I chose the Latin American section. 100 words I found the temporary exhibit a little weird. What do you think the museum administration and / or exhibit curators want you to learn or gain from the exhibit?
Name_MaddieMcMillan Class period/section: Huma. Tue., Th @ 1 pm
1) Which museum did you visit? (check one) __X_ Univ. of Utah ___ BYU 2)Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme, period, geographic region, or topic) within the museum. {150 words} I chose the latin American section. The first thing I noticed about this section as a whole was how abstract, and vibrant it was. I remember there was one picture titled, No parking here at any time, and it was extremely vibrant. There were bright colors, and there was quite a bit of violence as well. The focus of the picture was a brightly colored severed head with a knife stabbed into it. Another picture was portraying people (that were blue) dancing in black with lots of colors in it. I think these pictures were supposed to show the Latin American love for colors, and fun, and partying. The next pictures I looked at were of hard times for Latin American people. One was a picture of a refugee with their mouth covered. And another was a physical representation of a kitchen. It was extremely small, and it showed that Latin Americans did have hard trials, but found joy in life still. 2) Give a brief, one paragraph description of a special, temporary exhibit (for help, ask museum staff what these are; they are usually in one of the first rooms). {100 words} I found the temporary exhibit a little weird. The exhibit I chose was a few pictures that were dedicated to a DJ named Larry Levan. It was two pictures, and in each picture, the people had zoomed in pictures of Larry Levan stuck to their faces. I thought it was just a dumb picture, but the point the photographer was trying to make was this: That Larry Levans face was on women, black men, and white men, and that meant that Levans music spanned across all different kinds of people. This showed the high degree of respect that the photographer had for Larry Levan as an artist, and as a man. 3) What do you think the museum administration and/or exhibit curators want you to learn or gain from the exhibits you viewed? {100 word minimum} I think that museums as a whole are teachings of the humanities. They teach us about people who have come and gone, and what their lives were like. The people at the museum picked the exhibits that they did, because they want us as a Utah culture to understand other people, and other cultures. Whats most important is that they wanted us to see that art, regardless of who does it, or when they do it, connects us, and helps us to associate ourselves with the people who did the art, or the cultures that were associated with art. Different exhibits help us to expand the way that we look at the world, and to be more open to other kinds of thinking. And I think its a beautiful concept that art ties the past and the present together. 5)What kind of information is provided about the works? Where might you look for further information if you were interested? (Name three possibilities) Each piece had information about the artist that did the piece, and what inspired them to do it. Some pieces that took a long time described how the artist made the piece. 1. They had a QR code on each museum piece description that would
automatically give more information
2. We live in a world where the internet is right in our hands. If we wanted to know more we could simply look it up. 3. I could ask a museum worker about a piece as well. I could also, if I was REALLY interested, write a letter to the artist or their family regarding the piece, so that they could give me more insight on it. 4) Choose several works that particularly appealed to you. Explain why you were drawn to these works. Comment on the subject, style, medium, time period, etc. Who were the artists? What message do you think the artists were trying to convey in the works you chose to discuss? This question must be answered in its entirety. {This should be at least 500 words} 1. One piece that I found to be really cool was a tire sculpture. From far away, it looked like glass, or hard plastic, but when I got onto the second floor and saw it, I was amazed. The artists name is Chakaia Booker. The sculpture was done in 2008, and its simply black tires wound and bound together. Booker titled this Discarded Memories. In those two words, I felt like the meaning she was trying to convey was that there are memories that we disregard and take for granted while in our cars. But honestly, how much time is spent in the car with our families, singing songs, taking naps, or just talking? I think she was saying that we need to remember all the fun times we have with other people. 2. Another piece I thought was cool was a piece titled Man on Fire. I was mainly attracted to this piece because it wasnt a painting, it was large, and it had a man, with no emotion on his face, with flames shooting up and to the left of him. That interested me too, because the fire shot off of him almost, rather than completely engulfing him. He did this sculpture to talk about an Aztec ruler named Cuauhtemhoc who drove the Spaniards from Mexico city. He got tortured with fire. He also did it in reference to monks who set themselves on fire. I think that overall, he was agreeing with their war protests, and showing his admiration, by making the man still look strong, and brave even though he was on fire. 3. Another piece I found to be very interesting was an all granite picture. I didnt realize it was granite though. Anyway, it was all black, but it had different textures, some of them being very shiny, or grainy, etc. The artist is Teresita Fernandez. She did this sculpture all out of granite by studying different types of granite to imitate a horizon. She did it based off of the history of the Valley Borrowedale in Cumbria, England. She wanted it to be interpreted however the viewer interpreted it. 4. A random thing that I loved about the museum was this door. It technically was a piece. It had no label. It had no deep meaning. I was just beautifully done by, Id assume, a student at the U. From far away this door was light and dark blue. It had an intricate, but simple pattern of flowers and designs. As I got closer to the door, I saw that it was in fact all tape! It was even one color of tape. But the person that had decorated this door had layered their pattern so that It looked like there were three colors. It was amazing, and it
made me want to decorate my door as such.
5. Another piece I thought was cool was this type writer. It was fun because it could be touched, and actually typed with. While I was typing my note, I looked up and saw all of the other notes people had written on there. Even though no one else probably noticed it or cared, I thought that it was really cool that people in the Salt Lake Valley were all connected by one little piece of paper on a type writer. That I could see a glimpse into hundreds of peoples lives by what they said on the paper. It was the first time Ive really appreciated Humanities as a whole. It made me realize that every person is living a life on this Earth too, and that its interesting to learn about it. 5) How did the artworks you looked at relate to material we have discussed in class? (They do relate in many ways, you just need to look for those relationships). {Minimum of 150 words} The main thing I was thinking about was how love spans across time, no matter the amount. One of the temporary exhibits was a shrine that was dedicated to a woman named Lola. It was beautiful, and it had dried flowers all over the ground around it. I saw how war is everywhere in all societies in the Pacific Island section, when I looked at Pacific body masks, and things that might be seen or looked at as armor. Another thing that I noticed was spirituality. That was the main thing that was compared among all the exhibits. Every exhibit had certain focuses on spirituality. In the Latin American section, it was shrines, and ceremonial candles and other items. In the Pacific Island section, it was a spirit boat that spirits would ride on in the afterlife. I made me think a lot about how all cultures believe in something. And that doesnt mean that what they believe in is wrong, it just means each group is different. And thats ok. No one group is a more right than the other. Each exhibit showed me that spirituality gives more purpose to life, and who cares if its different from other religions. It makes the group that practices it happy, and as long as no one is hurt, why judge it? 6) What was your personal reaction to this experience? Would you enjoy attending this type of event again? Why or why not? {Minimum 100 words} I personally really enjoyed the pieces that I was looking at. I thought they were really cool! I like to see the different ways that people look at the world, and what the world is to them. One thing that I was thinking about when looking at these pictures and sculptures was that I need to get as much out of my life as I can; that I need to make memories, and experience other cultures. I realized that some of the stereotypes that I tied to certain cultures were not entirely accurate. It made me look at some things in my life a little bit differently. I would enjoy attending an art gallery again because I found a lot of the different works to be very interesting, and I thought a lot of the pictures and sculptures were really cool!