museum of contemporary

We have a good day at MCA. the museum was built by a lot of different angles such as staircases. We began from the first floor where exhibit artworks of Rashid Johnson. i saw many exhibitions that they were make by small mirrors. In addition, his artworks have planets. However,  I was confused when i saw a carpet and a TV put on it. then we went to the 3rd floor at the right Gallery where was exhibited about wars, human bodies. we also enjoy at gift shop and bookstore of the museum. I was interested with the book " in exams the very best totally wrong test answer" and jeweleries.

Public Art

I had a nice spring break with my friends, and we went to the Millenium Park and some places in Chicago city. There are a lot people come to the Millenium Park everyday for a break time or travel because Millenium Park is a wide place and nice landscape in downtown Chicago. I saw many artwork in there as Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Millennium Monument. specially I was interesting to see Cloud Gate, which many people call a big bean. I read information from Millenium park center that the -ton elliptical Cloud Gate sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel "plate", which reflect the city's famous skyline and the cloud above".

Reflection on the movie presentation

Maya Lin's project was selected from one of the 1000 projects. during that time Maya Lin was just an architect. Maya Lin know that she just begin of the career, that she has to face many controversies over her project because many veterans don't want remind about crisis during the war. However, her plan has reflected how men had to deal with death, and why American were there.

Art Institute Trip

The museum has variety of exhibitions. there are some artworks, which were very popular and we have learned about them in class such as Van Gogh, Picasso. Beside that, we also saw many artworks of different artists. The following artworks are one of the artworks that we have seen at the museum.

This is self portrait of Van Gogh



This is artwork of Georges Seurat describing people relaxing at an island' park



This is artwork of Grant Wood.

The Art Institute of Chicago

The wedsite exhibits the variety of different cultures. I could learn many different things about different cultures through the galleries and collections of each image. The use of this website is very simple and the tours through each collection is very clear.

Theme of Death

The exhibit has showed that every one has to go through the death once in lifetime. Anyone is born has to die. At the end, we will leave the world with skulls. The skulls are very similar and it is difficult to differentiate the beauty or ugly of a person. The exhibit has taught me how to face the death and teach me how to let go all the miseries and greed. It shows the pleasures, power, and love are impermanent and they do not follow us forever, we will be apart from our pleasures when death is catching up.

Butterfly

The first time seing this picture, I can imagine a beautiful day in the Spring with sunshine and clear sky. I really enjoy looking at it because the scene makes me feel relax and I can feel the peace in myself. The brightness of the colors and all the objects displayed create the harmony of the scene and the butterfly represents the freedom of creativity.