High Museum: Response

1.Your favorite work of art. What? Why?
Chaunecy Bradley Ives American 1810-1894. Undine Risisng from the Water 1880-1882 Marble. This was my favorite work of art because it was so beautiful and realistic, the details and veiling was so natural and real.

2.A work of art that you liked but would not take home. What? Why?
Giovanni Minelli Italian 1440-1528. St. Sebastian 1485-1490 Terracotta. This particular work of art endured pain and suffering for being accused of being a Christian and converting others. He was condemned to be killed with arrows and shot countless times.

3.A work of art that taught you something that you did nit know. What?
Hale Woodruff American 1900-1980. Results of Poor Housing 1941-1943. African American artist and teacher Woodruff served on the faculty of Atlanta University from 1931-1945. In 1936 he traveled to Mexico to study mural painting with Diego Rivera. Deeply influenced by Rivera’s social realism, which celebrated the lives and struggles of everyday people, Woodruff returned to America a committed muralist.

4.A work of art that felt sad to you. What? Why?
Carlton Garrett American 1900-1992. Church Revival 1950-1960. This work of art has a sadness that you feel at first glance. The carvings are human like made out of wood, mental, string and paint. All the carvings have the same sad facial expression.

5.A work of art that identifies a historic moment in time. What? When?
Randolph Rogers American 1825-1890. Abraham Lincoln. The 1865 assassination of President Lincoln. Many artist received commissions to perpetuate Lincoln’s memory. Rogers drew various sources in this 3-deminensional statue but added his own neoclassical touch.

6.A work of art that reminded you of something or someone in your life. Who?
John George Brown 1881. The Neighbors. This oil canvas painting of the two old women reminded me of my great-grandma “Momo” and my great-great-grandma “Granny”.

7.A work of art that shocked you. What? Why?
Deborah Butterfield American 1949. Burned and Crushed Steel Barbed Wire. This large work of art shocked because the size and the realism of the it.

8.Compare the Folk art gallery and the Contemporary gallery with the rest of the museum.
Nelle Moe Rowe 1900-1982. Folk Art is more cartoonists, colorful, awkward and childlike. Contemporary Art is vibrate, colorful, historic, has realism, and more modern.

9.Describe the part of your High Museum experience that was most meaningful to you.
The Skyway Level of the High was the most meaningful to me. All of the art work amazed me in more ways than one. The art work was full of creativity and nothing looked like the next or the last. On some level I could relate to what the art was expressing. I felt as though my entire High Museum experience was the most meaningful because I enjoy my time, I was never bored and I definitely learned something.