Art comes in many different forms whether it’s sculptures, canvas, vases, or mosaics and can have different meanings to different people and that’s where the beauty of art comes in. When visiting museums, you get to see that there are absolutely no boundaries for what is considered art and it can be very inspiring. During my visit at the Morse museum I saw many interesting pieces but a handful of them really caught my attention and stood out. There was one interesting piece I saw under the title Reverie by John Brown which is an oil on canvas. This particular art piece caught my eye because it was so smooth in appearance compared to other works around it and had small details that came together to picture a young American women sitting on a
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This particular work was made using an interesting print making technique of drypoint etching, when you engrave an image usually with a small item like a needle in a plate to create a image then use ink to transfer it on paper. At a first glance I thought it was done by pencil and I was so amazed at how simple and detailed it looked but when discovering it done by drypoint etching I was even more amazed. This piece is an image of an older lady sitting on a chair with a young girl sitting on her lap while they both look at what’s in the reflections of the hand mirror. This picture shows the time period of the industrial revolution by the mirror in their hand and the technique they used to complete this image. I think this particular piece is a statement about the society since it could represent the women comfortably sitting down with her child tending to her needs, maybe just got done combing her hair and trying to do everything she can to live the American life everyone shoots for. My next piece that was eye-catching was a surrealism piece titled The Dinkey-Bird by Maxfield Parrish. Surrealism pieces are always fun to look at since they tell a story and it can have many interpretations, this art was actually inspired and made for a poem name The Dinkey- Bird as well. Reading the poem opens up yours eyes to see what the
This particular work was made using an interesting print making technique of drypoint etching, when you engrave an image usually with a small item like a needle in a plate to create a image then use ink to transfer it on paper. At a first glance I thought it was done by pencil and I was so amazed at how simple and detailed it looked but when discovering it done by drypoint etching I was even more amazed. This piece is an image of an older lady sitting on a chair with a young girl sitting on her lap while they both look at what’s in the reflections of the hand mirror. This picture shows the time period of the industrial revolution by the mirror in their hand and the technique they used to complete this image. I think this particular piece is a statement about the society since it could represent the women comfortably sitting down with her child tending to her needs, maybe just got done combing her hair and trying to do everything she can to live the American life everyone shoots for. My next piece that was eye-catching was a surrealism piece titled The Dinkey-Bird by Maxfield Parrish. Surrealism pieces are always fun to look at since they tell a story and it can have many interpretations, this art was actually inspired and made for a poem name The Dinkey- Bird as well. Reading the poem opens up yours eyes to see what the