Author: Kelvin Castillo

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Photo reassembling Alice’s

This is a photo that reassembles the one taken by Alice in which we can see a woman sitting with some puppies on a staircase in Alice’s House. Instead of real puppy I had a photo of my dog in my phone,  and I would say Alice’s photo still connects with the community of dog owners.

For Alice this photos were just a form of expression (art) or just a way of having fun with her friends at the time, but for me personally as a visitor of the museum, taking the photo in the same spot after 100+ years later means and shows that history tends to repeat itself.

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I personally found impacting these two pieces:

  • Ancient egyptian paintings/representations
  • A garden landscape

 

Egyptian PaintingsDescription of egyptian paintings

These pieces of art were trully exciting to see. When you see the egyptian art through the TV you don’t really connect with it, but when you see it in person (even though it’s a replica) you can feel how long the human kind story really is. I didn’t know art could be from that far back, and I was surprised to see how well the egyptians painted.

 

Garden landscape descriptionGarden landscape

This was one of the most beautiful pieces of art I saw at the museum. Tyffany Studios made these landscapes for a woman called Sarah Cochran that wanted to see her garden blossom in every season, which was in Long Island. I went with a guide and at this part she explained how these were made by a woman group called “The tyffany girls” and it had over 10,000 pieces of glass which seems crazy to me. As the light went through the glass at different angles it changed the colors. I though art had to be a painting or a sculputure, I didn’t know It could be made out of glass.