I had been to The Yale Art Gallery many times before, and I've enjoyed many of the exhibits. Some of them represent the permanent collection of the Gallery, and some collections are temporary as they are borrowed from other museums and are on display for only a short period. Each tine I return to the museum I always find something interesting to see. This time, I had visited the new to the Gallery Indo- Pacific art exhibit. I had not seen it before, and quickly became fascinated by it. The exhibit encompasses the tribal art representing the cultural heritage and traditions of the natives of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australasia, from many centuries before Christianity and Islam changed them forever. It contains wooden carvings,
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Also, among my favorites are the collection of the European furniture as well as the Early American furniture. Even though I had seen many of the pieces before, I like to return to them, and each time I find them just as fascinating and beautiful as the first time. I also admire many of the paintings in the European art exhibit, such as The Road Across the Hampstead Heath (ca. 1822), or The Hay Wain (ca. 18210), both by John Constable. They are my absolute favorites. Along with Bruegel and Vermeer, John Constable, is one of my favorite painters. His art depicts the daily life of an ordinary people, a topic that was of no interest to his contemporaries, who preferred the more romantic visions of wild landscapes and ruins. The chosen by Constable topic for his paintings was the reason for the lack of his financial success. That has changed and today his paintings are considered most popular and valuable in the British art. I love them because they give us a glimpse into the lives of people from the era gone by, showing their everyday struggles bathed in a warm light of sunsets and sunrises. It is the daylight and movement that Constable captures that make his painting so characteristic, and inspiring artists until this day. It is perhaps an irony, that today many, including myself view his art as romantic, representing the simpler, easier era, even though it was once …show more content…
Many times my husband tried to convince me that I might like it, and each time I refused to go, and as he went to visit the Modern Art exhibit, I went to visit my favorite European Art collection. This time, because part of this assignment required for me to explain which part of the museum I liked the least, I agreed to go, if only to collect "ammunition" for my argument against it. To my surprise, I discovered that not all modern art is "created equally." There are the abstract sculptures and paintings by artists such as Cy Twombly, Marc Rothko, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Ad Reinhardt to name a few, that I don't understand, can't relate to, and feel nothing when looking at them, but there are also the others. These are the earlier pieces of the modern art from the beginning of the XIX century by artists such as George Bellows, Horace Pippin, Florin Stettheimer, Francis Luis Mora, William James Glackens and many others that shockingly, I truly enjoyed. They are considered modern art, yet because they are closer to the classical paintings of the masters such as Dutch painter Peter Bruegel or Vermeer (both my favorites), I truly enjoyed them. This last trip to the museum taught me an important lesson. Not only it taught me that there are wonderful pieces amongst the Modern art, but it
Also, among my favorites are the collection of the European furniture as well as the Early American furniture. Even though I had seen many of the pieces before, I like to return to them, and each time I find them just as fascinating and beautiful as the first time. I also admire many of the paintings in the European art exhibit, such as The Road Across the Hampstead Heath (ca. 1822), or The Hay Wain (ca. 18210), both by John Constable. They are my absolute favorites. Along with Bruegel and Vermeer, John Constable, is one of my favorite painters. His art depicts the daily life of an ordinary people, a topic that was of no interest to his contemporaries, who preferred the more romantic visions of wild landscapes and ruins. The chosen by Constable topic for his paintings was the reason for the lack of his financial success. That has changed and today his paintings are considered most popular and valuable in the British art. I love them because they give us a glimpse into the lives of people from the era gone by, showing their everyday struggles bathed in a warm light of sunsets and sunrises. It is the daylight and movement that Constable captures that make his painting so characteristic, and inspiring artists until this day. It is perhaps an irony, that today many, including myself view his art as romantic, representing the simpler, easier era, even though it was once …show more content…
Many times my husband tried to convince me that I might like it, and each time I refused to go, and as he went to visit the Modern Art exhibit, I went to visit my favorite European Art collection. This time, because part of this assignment required for me to explain which part of the museum I liked the least, I agreed to go, if only to collect "ammunition" for my argument against it. To my surprise, I discovered that not all modern art is "created equally." There are the abstract sculptures and paintings by artists such as Cy Twombly, Marc Rothko, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Ad Reinhardt to name a few, that I don't understand, can't relate to, and feel nothing when looking at them, but there are also the others. These are the earlier pieces of the modern art from the beginning of the XIX century by artists such as George Bellows, Horace Pippin, Florin Stettheimer, Francis Luis Mora, William James Glackens and many others that shockingly, I truly enjoyed. They are considered modern art, yet because they are closer to the classical paintings of the masters such as Dutch painter Peter Bruegel or Vermeer (both my favorites), I truly enjoyed them. This last trip to the museum taught me an important lesson. Not only it taught me that there are wonderful pieces amongst the Modern art, but it