Category: Reflections
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I study Political Science. Themes of domestic political choices/policies were present throughout many of the artworks, even if not explicitly: the westward expansions, the incorporation of slavery’s existence into Constitutional population considerations, the legal acceptance of unfair or coerced contracts with indigenous leaders over territory, and so on. It seems that the works in the…
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Something that I would add to this museum is a sort of interactive experience that allows tourists to participate in a fun activity that tells about the history of the Brooklyn museum itself and maybe some important artworks of New York that were influential to the modern day city.
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I was drawn to A Storm In the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt. The immense size of the painting is what drew me to it. It’s impossible to look a way from and very difficult to see all at once without backing far away. When you are that far you start to lose…
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In the past, I’ve always been hesitant to really indulge in a museum experience. However, with macaulay and this trip to the brooklyn museum, I’ve found a new found part for analyzing art and the many different cultures behind it. I’ve even struck up a few random conversations with people I’ve never met before, some…
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When I think of museums, I often think of the dominant narratives. I think about the stories that have yet to be told, about the identities that haven’t been captured. When walking by the Kehinde Wiley exhibition, I noticed that Black faces and Black stories are captured. For instance, I analyzed a sculpture that represented…
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When I first saw this painting, I was attracted by it because I like to look at paintings of flowers and plants. Whenever I go to a museum, what I like to visit most is not historical culture or cultural relics, but landscape paintings or paintings of flowers and plants. The paintings of the artists…
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This experience confirmed what I assumed about museums in how there are many different pieces of art that represent many cultures and historical time periods. For example, I was intrigued by the caskets and mummification process in the later sections of the museum, as well as the monoliths and statues towards the end of the…
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An image that really caught my eye was “Sarah Cowell LeMoyne” by Jane E. Bartlett, and Bartlett’s portray of LeMoyne’s daring, almost insinuating pose. As I peered down at the description, I learned about how the painting spoke to the friendship between the two women as they went for their careers in the arts. However,…
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I am a computer science major, so at first I struggled to see any connection between the art and culture at this museum and computer science. It wasn’t until a group member took a picture of an artwork, and they realized that they forgot to take a picture of the name, that I started to…
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One artwork that caught my eye was the painting of the Virgin Mary up of the 5th floor of the museum. “The Virgin” by Joseph Stella is a depiction of the Virgin Mary surrounded by fruit and flower with a bright moon in the background. This painting resonated with me as it reminded me of…
