Personal Narrative: My First Brush With An Art Museum
My First Brush with an Art Museum Being a fairly artist person for my entire life, I feel like it is a little weird that I have never been to an ‘art museum’. I grew up with a very artist mother, who did a lot of carvings and even won prizes for some of her carvings, and I believe that artistic talent rubbed off on me as well. I have always had interest in art, and strived in high school where I was placed in advanced art, painting and drawing classes. These days, I have traded my pencils and paintbrushes for mouse-pointers and Photoshop. So I was pretty excited to go to the Minneapolis Art Institute’s art museum over Spring Break, and excited to get a good grasp on some of the changes and fads that came out during different eras of art.
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This piece is called Gubbin’s Return, and is created by Richard Shaw in 1981. This piece of work caught me completely off guard, because I thought it was just a bunch of things stuck together, but after reading about it, it’s all made from porcelain! The amount of detail put into the box, the wine bottle, the pieces of wood, its ridiculous how real it all looks. Really awesome piece of work. I wanted to write about something older, so I chose the Water Pitcher from the 18th century that was on display in the special exhibitions area. Just to think that this beautiful piece was used as an everyday water pitcher, but has so much character carved into the bronze. Comparing it to a water pitcher that you and I would use today is almost a slap in the face. And it was a large piece as well, and being made of bronze I’m sure it was quite heavy. Perhaps it was a water pitcher that was brought out on special occasions, or for the king or leader of a civilization, which is why it is so intricate. Keeping in the older items, the next piece I am writing about is called Plate, from the Sung Dynasty(~1000 AD). It really caught my eye, because it resembles a smiley face. But it was awesome to be that close to a plate that someone was eating on over a thousand years
This piece is called Gubbin’s Return, and is created by Richard Shaw in 1981. This piece of work caught me completely off guard, because I thought it was just a bunch of things stuck together, but after reading about it, it’s all made from porcelain! The amount of detail put into the box, the wine bottle, the pieces of wood, its ridiculous how real it all looks. Really awesome piece of work. I wanted to write about something older, so I chose the Water Pitcher from the 18th century that was on display in the special exhibitions area. Just to think that this beautiful piece was used as an everyday water pitcher, but has so much character carved into the bronze. Comparing it to a water pitcher that you and I would use today is almost a slap in the face. And it was a large piece as well, and being made of bronze I’m sure it was quite heavy. Perhaps it was a water pitcher that was brought out on special occasions, or for the king or leader of a civilization, which is why it is so intricate. Keeping in the older items, the next piece I am writing about is called Plate, from the Sung Dynasty(~1000 AD). It really caught my eye, because it resembles a smiley face. But it was awesome to be that close to a plate that someone was eating on over a thousand years