City of Art

Attention!! As of December 12, 2014, an art exhibit will be held in the cafeteria in the M building. I chose that specific place because since a lot of students and staff go there to eat or pass by quick for something, it is a perfect location to place the paintings. As they are eating they end up wandering around and eventually will place their eyes on paintings. The audience here is everyone at La Guardia.

My theme is New York as art. We live in one of the most famous artistic city of the country. New York consists of various elements that makes it a unique work of art. I came up with this idea because New York a lot of different architecture and a lot of different skyscrapers in different shape and sizes. New York has a lot of different locations to visit such as museums, galleries, the Empire State Building and Central Park! We might have visited these places before but other from around the world come to visit these places. This is important because artist paint these paintings to show how beautiful New York is and its diversity. We are lucky to be a part of this.

As the curator of this show I picked these pieces because I wanted to remind us how New York is a beautiful artistic city. All the pieces connect to each other because they are paintings of different places of New York. Different artist painted them at a different time and in a different place and angle. The first painting I chose is by Leonid Afremov. I picked this painting because it caught my eye as soon as I came across it. This painting is in Central Park and it’s raining so the artist uses whitish diagonal to show the raindrops. The people and trees are organic shapes, and the umbrellas and buildings are geometric shapes. The painting has primary and secondary colors such as red, yellow and orange, they stand out the most. Overall the painting has warm colors because of the trees, and the reflection on the floor makes it seem like it was raining and the sun was setting. The floor also looks like a rainbow. The painting also has the rule of odds since there is eleven people in the painting. There is approximate symmetrical. To me the focal point is the couple.

The next painting is by Margo Hiotis, and it is inside Central Park. The path is a curvy line and the painting consists of geometric and organic shapes. The yellow pops out thanks to the green since it is darker. If we were to cut this painting in half it will be asymmetrical. The trees overlap each other and there is relative size scale. To me there is no focal point because everything captures my eye. The third painting is by Tina Cobelle. This painting is of Central Park from a different angel. It is mostly made it up out of different types of green. It is a great example of realistic representational style and the trees and buildings overlap each other. The tree on the left is the foreground and building on the right is the middle ground and the background is the grey, orange and yellow building because to me they seem further away. The last three painting were about a part of New York. The fourth one is a painting of the whole city by Michael Tompsett. The whole is city drawn out; it shows all the different types of building there is so it mostly has geometric shapes. There is primary and secondary colors, it’s like a rainbow. This painting is approximate symmetry and the focal point is the empire state building since it is the highest building. The colors just capture your eyes! The last painting is of the city as well but from a different angle. By M. Blechner. This panting is of the city at night and it is beautiful. It is mostly made it up with geometric shapes and it has analogous colors (bluish and purplish). There is implied light on top of the buildings because they are suppose to have their lights on since it’s dark. The water reflects all the colors and it looks so nice. This painting is abstract but doesn’t loose its sense of realism. It is amazing how New York City is used as a mode. New York is amazingly beautiful and thanks to nature it helps it look more artistic. 

Tina Cobelle

Leonid Afremov

Margo Hiotis

Michael Tompsett

M.Bleichner