Albright Knox Art Gallery

1. There were two particular artworks the gallery that definitely  impressed me. I loved French artist, Jean Metzinger's, Danseuse au Cafe (Dancer in a cafe) painting. It was made in 1912 and was simply oil on a canvas. However, before I looked at the tag with the information about it, I trued to guess what the picture was showing. It took me a while to see that there was an actual woman in the picture. That was so cool to me. Then, I saw a person sitting down. They were made out of different shapes and elements and you really had to pay attention to the painting to understand what was going on it it. The second painting that impressed me was Sue Williams Blue Foot, Red Shoe painting made in 1997. It was oil on acrylic on canvas. The interesting thing that got my attention was the fat that I saw what looked like a hand first. As I kept looking at it, i noticed that the whole painting was of body parts. I got a little disturbed, but intrigued at the same time because the body parts looked distorted.

 

2. I have a love hate relationship with math. It is one of those subjects that I'm terribly good and natural at so I love it. However, I hate the subject of math. It requires so much work and thought that I put my whole brain on the table and that's what makes me hate it. So when I saw Jasper Johns, an American artist, Numbers in color painting, I immediately felt connected to it. I was literally staring at these numbers made out of encaustic and newspaper materials for a while. My math instinct was to try to find a pattern and I saw that each row went from 0-9, but in a different order, staring with the next consecutive number. It was neat and nice to look at. I also had a connection with Czech artist, Frantise K Kupka, painting. It was titled Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, planes, depth) and made from 1920-1922. It was oil on canvas, but it had a raised effect to it and I wanted to touch it so bad. It attracted me because it had all these shades of blue in it. Blue is my absolute favorite color! It almost looked like it was made out of watercolors and was just beautiful.

 

3. I would really like to learn more about Jose Parla's Blooming City Marks painting. It was recently made this year and was so eye catching. Made out of acrylic, ink, plaster, and enamel, this painting was almost like it could be in a building in NYC. It was so cool looking and involved so many different colors. It showed that art can be made out of anything and be beautiful. I would love to learn more about him and his inspiration for this piece. I also want to learn more about Dialogue I, an oil on canvas painting created by Adolph Gottlieb in 1960. It literally looked like someone ad put graffiti on the wall. I mean that in the most interesting way, though. Because I didn't understand this painting and the one red dot and the one black one, I am interested in finding out more about this artist and the meaning behind this painting.

 

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