Week 11 Art Gallery Visit Part1

Questions about the exhibit:
1. What is the title of the exhibit? "The Long Curve: 150 Years of Collecting"


2. What is the theme of the exhibition? The theme is a celebration of the 150th annivesary of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy ( now known as Albright - Knox Art Gallery) and the works it has collected in that time.

Step 2: The Gallery

Questions about the physical space:
1. What type of lighting is used? THe lighting varies depending on the room... some apear to be brighter than others and the main room of the old gallery seems to have lots of natural lighting.
2. What colors are used on the walls? White. With the exception of the sulpture room, which has a good deal of wood trim all the walls are white. ( expect Sol Le witt's walls)
3. What materials are used in the interior artchitecture of the space? Marble, plaster board, wood.
4. How is the movement of the viewer through the gallery space? This is pretty free flowing, no definate start or stop, but the rooms do draw you from one space in to another

Step 3: The Artwork

Questions about the artwork:
1. How are the artworks organized? In rooms specially constructed for this exhibit. Different "rooms" have their works arranged differntly, depending on size of the works and the space available.


2. How are the artrworks similar? Honestly with all the artists and time periods represented here the only thing you can say they *all* have in common is that they make use of the elements or art and design, sorry.


3. How are the artworks different? There are many styles, movements and artists represented here.


4. How are the artworks framed? Some have simple frames, others have none and other have extreemly intricate.

5. How are the artworks identified and labeled? All are identified and labled with artist, title, year and medium.


6. What is the proximity of the artwork to each other? Depends on the room, in some cases it depends on the wall. Some places found just one painting in a space others had groupings of similar styles or paintings that just seemed to work together well. Most of the sculptures were in one specific room. One of the Picasso's was postioned on a wall by iteself - in such a way that the columes of the building worked as an additional "frame work' for it.



I loved this view of the picture ; but you can't really see it well, so


 
 Discription: This is a scene of a woman getting dressed with a servant holding a mirror for her. It's sparse in that other than the two figures and the mirror there is nothing else in the picture save wall and floor. Except for the servant's dress the colors are muted.





Formal Analysis:  line/shape are used to create the forms of the subjects as well as the ide of wall meeting floor. Colour is used to draw one's eyes to the servants dress and value is used to distinguish between form and backgrounds.






Bracketing:  THis is a familiar scene for most people ( sans the severant). We must all get ready each day and brushing hair in front of a mirror is part of that.


Interpretation:  Honestly I did not have an emotional reaction to thisbeyond "Oh WOW! That's a PICASSO!" I was thrilled to see a work this early in his career. It's really hot what most folks expect from him, as most are more familiar with his cubism paintings.

This post is getting rather long. I am going to continue in another post.