Personal museum Map - digital sketchbook update

I visited the decorative arts section on the first floor as part of my Museum mapping project!I found the design of this furniture piece attractive. I really like the rounded corner of the desk, chair and the semi-circle side bins. According to the label the plywood piece was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

In my additional online research that I found here, I learned:

1. The Desk and Chair was made for the S.C. Johnson and Son Administration Building.
2. America was rapidly industrializing and the chairs design reflects the streamlined and shiny lamented surfaces.
3. The chairs were designed in 1936/39, before the start of WWII.

Personal Museum Map

At Teen Lab, we were asked to visit 4 different sections of the Art Institute Museum. We had to take 4 sketches or images of the works for each section. We also had to pay attention to text and the signs and cards that are next to the art pieces. We were also asked to trace our path on a map.

I found my way to the second floor, where there was a yellow bead curtain. A pile of candy was at the corner, and was told the pieces were edible. When you read the text explaining the piece though, the artist made it to represent his wife dying of AIDS. The candy pile was the same weight as she was. People taking candy represents her dying and losing lots of weight. I regret taking a piece after realizing.

I don't get these pieces at all. Its just countries flags, or stripes of color. anyone can do it. Maybe I'm missing some hidden meaning here, but its so ..simple. It confuses me.

I made my way to the first floor, where I went to the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman arts section. I found these hand crafted weapons to look very lethal.

I saw this Egyptian tablet with hieroglyphs in it. There appears to be a seated person and some sort of flying bird.

I'll have Thursday tomorrow to finish up!

Roger Brown Collection House Museum Visit

We visited the Roger Brown Collection yesterday on October 19. We took the Brown line to Armitage and walked a few blocks to the museum. After putting our coats and bags away we went on a tour of the house. Roger Brown had many different collections and he had interesting ways of displaying them. He had this shelf with what I think was his childhood ephemera. He had a Green Hornet lunch box and old toy buses and toy cars. He also like Jesus and Batman a lot. He had a batman pinata and lots of Jesus statues. They were like his heroes.

Text and Image Glimpses~!

Today we did a "Text Glimpse" and "Image Glimpse" exercise. I interviewed a security guard for the text portion. Interestingly, she said children were more well behaved than the adults when it came to no touching art! I also tried to eavesdrop on groups of people as part of the assignment. I was terrible at being discrete about it but I overheard an interesting comment on the Modern Wing Building itself: "All this glass makes me nervous."

For the image portion, we used viewfinders, it was black card-stock with a square cut in the middle. It gives a close up and helps focus on details.  Some familiar paintings look unrecognizable close up. I took many pictures with a camera, but here are a couple.

A close up of one of Georgia O' Keefe's close ups.

Part of a tablecloth? A scarf ? A dress?

Beatrice was with me too~

Exquisite Poem

This is a poem done by me and Vanessa. It is based on the "Exquisite Corpse" Surrealist game, except for writing instead of drawing. It was a fun collab! :) 

She was looking through her window on
morning,
does not reach the window, the sun does not
melt the glass. The glass was dripping with white
paint
on the the frames paint on the columns leave the
mirror. She glanced at it again and saw a white
bird.
is trapped and is spooked by its own reflection, it
gets injured, the floor under shattered, pieces
of mirror falling everywhere, no sound was
heard.
it? No one heard it. The noise was trapped in
there.

Here is my annotated album ~~~ C:

Website I visit a lot

yahoo!

Spanish Dancer by a Russian artist

I love the ivory and gold. I love how her hands are posed and the floral patterns on the folds of the cloth.

what inspires me.

Alphonse Mucha~