Historical Or Mediocre Essay

Historical or Mediocre? Driving to the Jepson Center of Art was fairly easy. Jepson is placed in a little square in downtown and the center is pretty huge, so finding it was no problem. Although I had to park on the back side of the center, I didn’t mind the short walk to the front of the building. When I got inside though I was pretty confused. In most museums that I went to there was always a line to the front desk to pay and a smiling friendly face to greet me. I was not faced with any of my prior experiences here. There weren’t that many people here, but considering that I went to the center on a Monday may be the reason why. Yet, there was no smiling face behind the counter. In fact, the young man behind the counter all but acknowledged my …show more content…
Each teacher had a different style and I felt moved by some of their art. There were paintings of the marshes, and students that they had taught. I saw mixed media art with different art forms called “The Book of Life” which really spoke to me as it was very colorful and full of life. I found this really cool, because like most people my age, I think of art as a painting made by an old guy about one hundred years back, but all of these paintings were modern, yet still considered art. I felt relieved to find something I could relate to considered art by an art center.
I traveled around until I came to the bronze and stone sculptures. Each sculpture was made in the early 1900’s and I liked their smooth style with either an animal or human subject. The bronze sculpture that took most of my attention was one of a little girl about four-foot-high with 2 scale-like bowls in her hand. Her name was “Bird Girl” and she seemed so mysterious to me even considering that she had a stone base with a scripture added on to the bottom of her in the sixties. This all seemed sort of mysterious to me so I decided I would do research on her