MCA reflection

Installation view of Scott Reeder’s Untitled, 2011, MCA Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago|Berlin. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Commission


IAIN BAXTER&, Zero Emissions, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario. © 2011 IAIN BAXTER&

MCA reflection
I first time was traveling to the museum of contemporary art of Chicago. Before I with my classmates visited there on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, I never knew this museum, even though I have been Chicago for 10 years. When we arrived front step of the gate of museum, I was surprised about the building of the museum. Because of the gate and windows of the building were bright, such as transparent glasses. When people got there, they felt clearly as like my feelings. The professor Gitte took several pictures for us. It will be reminds us never forget our appreciated art class in the future. For the building, one of the nation’s largest facilities devoted to contemporary art; the museum offers exhibitions of painting, sculpture, video, and performance create since 1949 by important artists. So, it gave me the most impression. I saw that an arch shape wood, it was very simple. I did have a camera, so, I sorry could not take a picture for it. I learned that Martin Puryear{(American, b.1941) Unititled, 1975-78} works was as Osuge Orange Wood and Maple and brass studs Collection museum of contemporary art Chicago. I asked Gitte, “Is it art?”. Gitte was confirmed, “Yes, it is art”. But I think that was very general, because I remembered that when I was a child, I saw my grandmother used to it to do steam rice, food. It seemed a shelf to put in the water pan, a rice pot to put on the arch wood. When boiling the water, the rice was steamed. If I understood that can use to made art, I would tried to learning make it. But I lacked the knowledge to created art because I was not artist. But art was created by artists from common things. And it stated that people are living with art in every day and ever thing.

Summary Art 21

Summary of Seeing the Videos in the PBS Art 21 series
I saw a lot of videos and heard a lot of artists speak about their work. From all these videos, I learned about new methods to make art. The artists were all contemporary artists. Many of their ideas seemed to me to be very abstract. I was especially impressed with the work of Cai Guo Qiang. He uses gunpowder to create images. It was power. A video imagines a car bomb, I learn the new imagines. The process he uses is filmed and there is lots of smoke and noise. He can make images of animals using the result of exploding gunpowder. It is dangerous to make this art but he has learned how to do this safely from many years of experience. He also uses lots of lights and big ordinary objects like automobiles to make sculpture. This art and ideas about this art are very special. He showed how to make art on the video. This video series is a compilation of contemporary artists. The artists in this video series are all trying to do something new. They are trying to give new expression for what can be considered art. They try to create their art using skills they acquired from their studies and from their life experiences.

Reflection about Art II

Reflection about Art II
I with classmates of my art class went to Art institute of Chicago museum on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. It is raining, but we with our professor walked on the road together were happy. When I did my assignment to appreciate an art object, Mummy Case of Paankhenamun, I earned a story that was a part of body of god. The god was dead in 3000 years ago, but the people wanted see his body, because of Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife gave rise to the complex art and science of mummification. This vividly painted Mummy Case was the innermost of a series of shells that housed the body of a deceased person. The hieroglyphic inscriptions and painted scenes identify this mummy as Paankhenamun, a doorkeeper in the temple of the god Amun. The central scene shows the hawk-headed god Horus (god of sun) presenting Paankhenamun to Osiris, ruler of the afterlife. This case is decorated with symbols and scenes of gods that were thought to protect the deceased and ensure his rebirth in the afterlife. They stand on the lotus, a flower that symbolized regeneration. At the throat is a small scene portraying mant, the godless of truth. The hiero-glyphs indicate that Paankhenamun was considered to be “true of voice”, and that his soul successfully had passed the judgment of the dead. A winged scarab beetle, a symbol of the sun that is reborn each day sits over the location of his hart.
I was surprised that Mummy can keep for more 3000 years, it let me praised that artists intelligent and wisdom. They created artwork and common people cannot understand but they were interesting.

Mummy Case of Paankhenamun