Art Institute of Chicago
It is always nice to be
with our art appreciation class group including our teacher Gitte, who is awesome.
She took us to Art Institute of Chicago as a field trip, and we just have to
enjoy art works. She divide us into several groups of two students and told us to pick one art work we like and
need to explain to whole class. I mean we need to do presentation about one
artists work, which was exciting.
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| Our Art Appreciation Class Group, 2013 |
We went through my
favorite section or I can say most art lover or appreciators best section of
Impression and Post Impression arts. We went through Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday
on La Grande”, which is a great example of Pointillism, and we can also look at
this particular painting as an example of optical effect of color. Afterward,
we moved toward Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin’s paintings and observe them closely.
We have some knowledge of their technique of use of colors. Van Gogh’s color is
very bold and straight color with big brush strokes and Gauguin use color very
thoughtfully to express his feelings through. 
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| Gerhard Richer, German. Mother with two children |
Furthermore, we went to
new wings of modern art and got chance to see some of the contemporary artist’s
works after 1960. There are many interesting and conceptual work done by
different artists. I really appreciate the work of German artist Gerhard Richer.
My partner Amy and I
did our presentation on the American artist Charles Ray, who was born in 1953.
It’s a large size sculpture that was curved in Japanese technique of wood
curving by Yuboku Mukoyoshi. This technique is known as Hinoki and the sculptor
was finished and brought here in USA on 2007. The subject matter of the
sculptor is really big and old tree log that was laying into the jungle of
California. It was really beautiful and looks like some life just ended and resting
on peace and we gave the title for this work, “Ending of Nature (life)”.
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| Charles Ray, 2007 |
Another artist that grabbed
my attention is Ed Clark whose work is basically about shape and color. Luckily,
He is giving a lecture about his works process and concept behind on this
Thursday, 24th of Oct, 2013.
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| Ed Clark |
Lecture by
Ed Clark – Shape, Form, and Time
Ed Clark – Shape, Form, and Time
Thursday, October 24
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Thank You
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