This page compiles your reflections on art, community, museums, and more, informed by your time at Night at the Museum.
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
The painting that invoked my emotions was the painting with the naked lady and man. There private parts were switched and they had pubic hair on it. Which I didn’t like.
City College
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Compare how this experience reinforced or challenged your previous ideas about museums. Would you encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums?
This experience reinforced the idea that museums are a place where culture is in communication and there is a constant metaphorical conversation going on at all times. There are so many art pieces from various cultures on display, and each piece is inspired by the background, ethnicity, and experiences of its creator. Everyone, especially Macaulay Students, should make it a point to visit museums as it enriches the mind, heart, and soul on the various cultures of this world. More importantly, it makes us more observant, more open, and more caring individuals.
Avneet Kaur
Brooklyn College
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
Sunset at sea by Thomas Moran was a beautiful combo of impressionist painting and detail to create a cold water atmosphere with a warm sunset using oranges and reds.
Erick Abbate
Baruch College
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
I would love to have one of this at my house. I like the colors and the details of this furniture. It gives a mix of ancient and modern style, a mix that I really seem to admire. When I look at this furniture, I get a feeling of mystery and as if there are so many stories hidden in each corner of thai furniture.
Shadia Sultana
City College
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How would you relate your current major or field of study to your experience at Night at the Museum? What connections can you see?
I chose to major in English because my favorite thing about school was the discussions we had in class. Learning with and through other people is such an undervalued resource to me. A museum is for the people, it is artwork made for tge public eye. Connection is made implicitly by viewing something from another time.
Sienna Marie Saballegue
Lehman College
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
A piece that evoked strong emotion in me was “Nude” by Albert Sterner. The museum had a room dedicated to mostly nude portraits, and it created an incredibly interesting environment as you walked throughout the museum, especially because the previous room was mostly Renaissance era art. This piece stood out to me because of the simplistic way the woman is drawn. She feels very real, while being simply a sketch. Additionally, I feel like I can tell when an artist depicting women loves them or hates them, and through this artists work, you could feel the love he has for women, and for whatever woman he is choosing to depict through his sketch.
Dinah-Luba Beylison
Brooklyn College
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Compare how this experience reinforced or challenged your previous ideas about museums. Would you encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums?
This experience reinforced my idea of museums because it truly exemplified what a museum is all about, culture. For example, the American wing showed so many various cultures just in one floor alone, it showed from black American to Japanese American to Caribbean American, and more. The cultures, though different, all blended perfectly when displayed together in nearby wings, creating a seamless experience as most museums aim to do. Different cultures are all beautiful in their own way and a museum aims to present them on all their beauty, and this museum and many others do so reinforcing my idea about museums.
Athena Eyzaguirre
Hunter College
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
Thomas Morgan’s Sunset at Sea really struck me. I almost missed it, I saw it in my periphery and did a double-take. The composition is somewhat circular, the water arced around the sun, the clouds a mirror of that same arc. The spherical seascape speaks on the eternal nature of water. It always has existed, exists, and always will exist. It’s a cycle. However, the cycle is also constantly changing – a rolling and swirling body that is never the same in any given place. Because of this, I love how the sun’ and its glare are centered inside the circle of ocean and sky, the stagnancy of the sun, the fact that it is so unmoving, adds a level of complexity to the piece. For me this piece demonstrates the paradox of nature: it is always the same, and it is ever-changing.
Aliza Zilberberg
Queens College
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Choose a piece of art you saw that invoked strong feelings for you. Describe the response you had and why. (Don’t forget to include the title and artist.)
A piece that evoked strong emotion in me was “Nude” by Albert Sterner. The museum had a room dedicated to mostly nude portraits, and it created an incredibly interesting environment as you walked throughout the museum, especially because the previous room was mostly Renaissance era art. This piece stood out to me because of the simplistic way the woman is drawn. She feels very real, while being simply a sketch. Additionally, I feel like I can tell when an artist depicting women loves them or hates them, and through this artists work, you could feel the love he has for women, and for whatever woman he is choosing to depict through his sketch.
Dinah-Luba Beylison
Brooklyn College
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How would you relate your current major or field of study to your experience at Night at the Museum? What connections can you see?
Being a sociology major, I witnessed how humans functions not only between one another in conversation but also as a greater community. I saw the effects that arise when people take advantage of the power they hold in society. Looking at the array of art pieces that were concocted during moments of agony, it truly showcased the urge to speak, a trait inherent to us as a species. Many art pieces demonstrated the beauty with African Americans, especially during a time where a deviation from what’s culturally accepted was not as well received. Similarly, the voices of the Indigenous Peoples whose voices were silenced have been preserved in these art pieces so accessible to us today. I thank the Brooklyn Museum for having these art pieces available to those who wish to maintain the importance of the marginalized, and many more thanks to the Macaulay team who brought us here to revel in the dedication pushed forward by many artists who fought to let their stories be heard.
Anna
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
