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A Visit to the Museum
One of the fascinating experiences that an individual can have is visiting the museum and exploring different pieces of artwork. During my visit to the art museum, the collection of arts varied from paintings, sculpture, to relics of items that were used by the past and prominent people in the past. For an individual to easily relocate the works of art effectively in the museum, various labels in every row make one to effectively concentrate on the pieces of artwork that are within their interest. Additionally, there is a short description of every item that has been listed in the museum. In cases where such information lack or is unclear, the museum guards and guides are always available to aid one’s understanding of such items. To effectively understand whatever is going on in the art museum, one must ask questions that directly relate to different types of art in place (Vallance, 2007). These questions should revolve around aspects such as a brief history of the artist, the probable period when the piece of art was done by the artist, how the piece of art is relevant to the community where it came from, how the artistic movements in that particular era influenced the artistic representation of aspects in the art.
Despite having multiple pieces of art in the museum, the abstract art stirred my interest is Wassily’s artwork, the Garden of Love II. As an oil on canvas artwork, the piece was painted in 1912 during the post-impressionism period when the western art embraced cubism and steered clear of the rigid prescription of the representational artwork (Poggi, 1992). Since cubism is heavily reliant on the subject matter, Wassily’s artwork abstractly presented the abstract concept of the garden of love without any tangible element that can align it to any physical representation of a phenomenon (Long, 1983). The artwork is likable owing to how the artist has used various colors in an apparent demonstration of how love could manifest in different ways. Such a latent description of love typified by a colorful representation of diversities in love is astounding.
The Artwork, the Garden of Love II
Reference
Long, R. C. W. (1983). Kandinsky’s Vision of Utopia as a Garden of Love. Art Journal, 43(1), 50-60.
Poggi, C. (1992). In defiance of painting: cubism, futurism, and the invention of collage.
Vallance, E. (2007). Questions asked in art-museum education research. In International handbook of research in arts education (pp. 701-719). Springer, Dordrecht.