Intro
to Art
AIC
visit date and time:
March
21, 2003 at 12:00 pm until 4:00 pm
Mode
of Transportation: Metra
On
March 21, 2003 at 12:00 pm I went to The Art Institute of Chicago. There were quite a few paintings that
caught my attention, but two paintings stood out. The two paintings had to deal with rebuilding a new life[MR1].
The
first painting is The Movings by Louis Leopold Biolly painted in 1822. He was a French painter that lived from
1761 to 1845. The painting is
located on the second floor in Gallery 222 on the south side of the building[MR2]. The Movings is 28 inches by 36 inches and it stands 4 1\2 feet from the
floor. The frame is gold and has a
crack on the bottom right about an inch in a half. It has his [MR3] name in the front of the
painting in black ink. The second
painting is The Rock
by Peter Blume painted over a period of four years starting in 1944. He was an American-surrealist painter,
but born in Russia. Blume lived
from 1906 to 1992. This painting is [MR4]located on the second floor in
Gallery 244 on the north side of the building. The Rock is 36 inches by 46 inches and it stands about 3 feet from
the floor. The frame is gold with
speckled painted spots. Both
paintings are painted on canvas with oil.
Biolly’s
painting takes place around the end of May
[MR5]in the evening because the sun
is setting. Men, women, children,
and animals are moving through the streets of Paris. They have come from the provinces and are trying to have a
better life in Paris. I read the painting from right to left[MR6]. This painting has Caucasian men and women. The men are standing by a black
carriage socializing[MR7]. A man is standing up carrying a mattress and thin blankets
on his back with a wood stick in his hand for support[MR8]. A [MR9]man
[MR10]looks like he is taking a
break, but is very angry and tired.
A woman [MR11] is sitting down on the ground
with a red scarf on her head. She
is holding a light brown cat in her left hand and petting a brown and white dog
with her right hand. The lady
standing next to the woman with the cat had some bottles in a basket looking
around with her daughter. She had
on a white skirt with a blue shirt.
Her daughter had on a tan jacket and brown pants. The daughter has a
white drinking cup and bag in her hand. A [MR12]man with a torn shirt at his
shoulder is struggling to pull his wagon.
In his wagon he had a white mattress, a wooden chair and some brown
boards. On the other side of his
wagon, a man and woman are trying to help him move it. A man
[MR13]around his thirties with dark
hair is wiping his neck after he took off his hat. There is a brown horse pulling a wagon with chairs, wood of
some type, a broom, a basket and mattress filled with hay. The man with green coat standing by the
horse is in charge of the horse[MR14]. The black dog [MR15]is under the wagon with a
leash around his neck. On top of
the wagon a woman is sitting on a mattress with her baby holding a
birdcage. To the left of the
painting there is a man walking on the side of his wagon. He has two tired dogs pulling his wagon
with his belongings. The buildings
where people stay are brown with windows[MR16]. An old man and woman are walking towards the buildings in
Paris. The man is carrying a paint
stand[MR17]. Some women are standing by a long wooden table by the Church
of Santa Maria. The Church of
Santa Maria has statues of people at the top.
Biolly
made the clouds white so you that it will be a clear day[MR18]. The sun is setting further in the back. There are no bright colors in the
painting; it is different colors of brown. You can see how he uses rectangles in the windows of the
building.
I
can identify with the daughter standing by her mother. The reason is because I always stood by
my mother when I was her age. I
would be very exhausted and ready to go to sleep and start my day over. I would like to visit Paris because it
is a different place from [WHAT NOT
where I am use to[MR19].
Blume’s
painting takes place around the beginning of April at nighttime [MR20]and looks like it is about to
rain. I read this painting from the center and then everything around it[MR21]. The rock is in the center of the painting. There is a large red broken rock
sitting on some kind of support.
It is supported by the solid ground of the Earth. The rock looks like it has been
decayed. Beside the rock there are
broken bones of an animal and a red flower[MR22]. Around the rock there are Caucasian woman and men[MR23], an African man. The woman looks like she is trying to
hold up the support of the rock and one Caucasian man is shoveling the dirt by
the rock. A Caucasian man is breaking the stone; an African man and two
Caucasian men are moving stones to rebuild their city. You can look at the men and see that
they are working hard. One man [MR24]eye was popping out and his
muscle is [MR25]showing. A Caucasian man is working by a red
brick house that is halfway torn down by an old fire. There is a picture of an old lady hanging on the wall in the
house[MR26]. The Coca Cola sign is by a broken glass and a wire. There is smoke rising in the air
where the man is working. The far
left of the painting the men are in the building putting stones in place. There are two men pulling up stones
with a rope connected to the stones.
The right side of the painting the sky is dark and on the left it gets a
little lighter. The sun is setting
in the back of the painting.
Talking about Georges Seurat’s painting in class made
me see three primary colors in The Rock, which are red, blue and yellow. You see the red flower, and the inside
of the rock. The sky is blue and
the dirt is a yellowish color. On
the rock you can see triangular shapes[MR27].
I can identify with the Caucasian man further in the back
trying to rebuild because I like to work with my hands building things. I would be frustrated because I would
have to clean up what someone else has destroyed. This is not a place I would want to visit because he drew
this during World War II and people had to worry about the destruction of there [MR28]property.
I decided [MR29]these two painting because
they are struggling to rebuild to put their lives back together. Both paintings have a few things in
common. The sun setting in
both are in the far back of the painting.
The Moving
[MR30]struggles to move their [MR31]belongings on the streets of
Paris. The Rock struggles to rebuild their
city that has been destroyed[MR32]. The paintings show the people are tired and ready to
rest. They know they can not rest
because they have to get done.
The reason I chose to write about The Moving was because it reminded me of
the Pilgrims and how they dressed.
I chose The Rock because
the color and how he had the sun setting and the sky looking dark at the same time[MR33]. If I worked at the AIC I would have to get rid of The
Moving
because The Rock shows
them working harder trying to get their city back together[MR34].
Overall, I think this experience was difficult for because
it takes me longer to analyze a painting[MR35]. By taking Intro to Art I have learned to be patient and look
at the painting instead of someone telling about the paint[MR36]. ….
X~, I COULD JUST GIVE YOU A LOW GRADE,
BUT I KNOW YOU WOULD BENEFIT BY TRYING TO REVISE THIS DRAFT..SO…I’M
GOING TO PUT THESE TWO PAINTINGS ON A WEBSITE < http://english.sxu.edu/~mrabe/aic/boilly_blume.htm>.
TRY TO ADD AN INTERPRETATION
OF BOTH…ONE IS A MORE STRAIGHT FORWARD HISTORY PAINTING, AND THE OTHER
SYMBOLIC OF REBUILDING AFTER WAR…ASK THE TUTOR TO LOOK ON LINE AND HELP
YOU COME UP WITH A MEANING FOR THE BIG BROKEN RED ROCK THAT THAT WOMAN MAY EVEN
BE WORSHIPPING!<GRADE[MR37]>
.
[MR1]THEY SAY PARAGRAPHS SHOULD BE LONGER THAN JUST 2 SENTENCES. WHAT ELSE COULD YOU SAY BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION TO THIS PAPER AND ITS FOCUS, PURPOSE?….THE RATIONALE SOUNDS INTERESTING, THOUGH
[MR2]NORTH SIDE OF THE BUIDLING BUT SOUTH WALL OF THE ROOM!
[MR3] WHOSE? ANTECEDENT REFERENCE IS TOO FAR BACK
[MR4] ALSO
[MR5] HOW CAN YOU TELL THE MONTH?
[MR6] WHY THE _WRONG _ WAY?
[MR7] WHICH ONE? I SEE 3 OR 4 CARTS PILED HIGH
[MR8] SAY WHERE. FAR RIGHT FOREGROUND?
[MR9] NEXT STANDS…
[MR10] WHO
[MR11] YOUNG GIRL?
[MR12] WHERE IN RELATION TO THE OTHERS?
[MR13] AGAIN, YOU NEED TO CONNECT EACH PART WITH THE OTHERS BY GIVING A LOCATION IN RELATION TO THE OTHERS
[MR14] SAY “IT”, NOT “the horse” AGAIN.
[MR15] WRONG USE OF DEFINITE ARTICLE, “THE” BEFORE ITS INTRODUCED
[MR16] WHERE ARE THEY? SEE RUBRIC, WHERE I SAID TO WALK US THROUGH FROM LEFT FRONT TO BACK RIGHT…
[MR17] AGAIN WHERE ARE THEY IN RELATION TO OTHERS. THE TERM IS EASEL
[MR18] ANY BLUE SKY? YES…SO MENTION IT TOO
[MR19] “from WHAT (NOT ‘where’) I am useD to.”
[MR20] ? I SEE BLUE SKY, SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS ON THE ROCK
[MR21] OKAY—GOOD POINT, THAT IS WHERE THE ARTIST DRAWS YOUR ATTENTION FIRST
[MR22] MORE DESCRIPTIVE DETAIL WOULD HELP
[MR23] AND
[MR24] MAN‘S
[MR25] “MUSCLES ARE”
[MR26] AGAIN, YOU’VE LEFT OUT THE DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION
[MR27] TRY TO LINK YOUR IDEAS TOGETHER, NOT A BUNCH OF ISOLATED STRAY FACTS
[MR28] THEIR
[MR29] TO CHOOSE, OR TO COMPARE
[MR30] IS ABOUT
[MR31] NO ANTECEDENT
[MR32] WRONG
GRAMMATICAL SUBJECT
[MR33] THESE ARE UNRELATED IDEAS….
[MR34] SAY MORE; WHY NOT TRY TO GIVE AN INTEREPRETATION OF BOTH…WHAT IS THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROCK?
[MR35] LONGER THAN WHAT?
[MR36] NOT A GRAMMATICAL SENTENCE
[MR37] INCOMPLETE FOR
NOW.