Essay #2

The class trip to the Chelsea galleries was an interesting one. I got to see different artists and their works. The pictures that I have posted here are the few that I liked the most and found intriguing. The first two pictures are from the artist Takashi Murakami. His exhibit was called "In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow." The first picture captured my attention because it captured expression with the words death, hate, and I. Then the background consisted of different color skulls which was pretty cool. I like the fact that he linked the word death with the skulls in this picture. The second one interested me just because I found it odd. There are two creatures heads in the center of the painting and in the lower creatures heads there seem to be other beings inside of its mouth. The light blue background also makes the picture kind of pop and captures your attention. 

The third picture is from the Francesco Clemente "Two Tents" exhibit. This was just basically two tents that were painted inside and out with great detail. The outside of the tent is pretty much just a pattern painting and then the inside has a lot more detail to it.  The fourth painting come from the Arturo Herrera exhibit. This painting seems to be a painting of colors within a painting. The outer layer is the brownish white and the inner layer has the green, red, yellow, and blue color. I couldn't figure out if the paining has a deeper meaning to it or if it's simply what is painted there. The fifth painting is from the Anton Kern gallery. I really like how this painting was done. It has a nice blue background that captures your attention and the bright orange lines just seem to pop out right at you. These lines are all connected together and at the end of each of them was a different picture of something whether it was a car, field, or lady which i found interesting. The sixth picture is from the Chamber of Fine Art gallery. Now this painting is a painting that looked like it took a while to paint just because of the detail and all the different colors used all over it. It is basically a head of a wolf painted on some kind of designed paper that almost looks like ones of those plastic table cloths.  The last picture comes the David Zwirner  exhibit. This painting i found odd as well as the rest of them. All of his paintings seem to have people in then that are part animal or some kind of monster. They either have wings or claws on them. In this picture it seems like a women is coming out of the sea creature that is cut open and laying on the ground. These works of art seem to be more unique and different than the artist of older times. These painting use a lot more bright colors and a lot of them are more random than the basic paintings of that are more common in the older generations. These do seem more relevant to our world because it shows that you express yourself anyway that you want. They strife for their art to be different. That's what makes it unique and captures the attentions of others. The one that really seemed like a lot of handwork was put into it was the two tents exhibit. Just the fact that the outside and the inside of it were both painted fully and with great detail showed how much effort and dedication the artist put into this work. That's the one I was most impressed by and I appreciated the most.