Brendan Kwan

14 September, 2024

 

My friends and I decided to go to the Art Lab at Snug Harbor. We decided to participate in the Oil Painting segment. We met a nice artist named Griselda. She taught us how to utilize our eyes in order to fully understand the dimensions and of the object we are trying to draw. The object that I had to draw was a pair of pears. At first, I thought my art piece was going to be horrible just from the outline. As it came together, I stopped comparing my pair of pears to other people’s pairs of pears and started to really focus on my art, and surely enough, it became a masterpiece in my eyes. I began to mix colors in order to get somewhat identical colors as the real pears. I then focused on the background of the pears. Following that, I started mixing colors in order to make shadows for the pears. I was really surprised by how nice my pears turned out. Finally, when all was said and done, I signed my piece with a fine tip brush, giving it nice, slow strokes in order to write it neatly. The main lesson I learned during this art lab, is that even if you do not have much experience with art, anything is really possible

INTRODUCTION:
To begin, my friends and I traveled to a magical art museum called the Rubin. I was excited to see what awaited me and what surprises I might find, because it was my first time going to an art museum in my entire life. All I could think of was six floors of wonders, waiting to be discovered.

EXHIBIT #1:

I genuinely enjoyed this piece of art. The colors are so vibrant and the style is familiar. The piece shown above was titled “Kamala”, a part of a collection called “Dus Mahavidyas” (Great Goddesses of Wisdom) by artist Shraddha Shrestha. What I really liked about this piece, was that it instantly reminded me of this cartoon I used to watch as a kid called “The Powerpuff Girls”. This specific piece made me think of Buttercup. It invoked nostalgic feelings inside me, which is a feeling I appreciate deeply. To be honest, I was not really that surprised to find out that the artist was inspired by Powerpuff Girls and other cartoons, because they look almost identical in style. 

 

EXHIBIT #2:

This piece of art shown above was by far one of the worst pieces of art that I have ever seen. The piece was titled “Divine Generation”. It was quite literally a rock dated from last year. One positive thing I could say about the rock is that the museum allowed us to touch it. It didn’t seem like it carried much meaning and it didn’t have any redeeming qualities.

 

EXHIBIT #3:

This exhibit shown above was titled “Asha Kama Wangdi, Vast Bhutan” or “The Windhorse (Lungta)” and it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen in person. It consisted of discarded prayer flags made of polyester and the artist turned it into a really nice collage with elegant designs. My favorite part of the prayer flag display was the horses that popped out. I was very fascinated with this art piece and the way it extended from the first floor all the way to the sixth floor. Every time that I made my way up the stairs, I would continue to look at the prayer flag structure, strictly because I was getting a unique perspective every step of the way.

CONCLUSION:

To summarize, I enjoyed the trip to the Rubin. I appreciated most of the art, especially the detailed arts on textiles. I thought deeply about the hard work that went to the textile arts, as well as the many sculptures that I thought were really cool.