Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Visit to Artic


Sincere Yeung, Chicago Artic Mordern Wing 5/11, Photograph, 2009.

This day, we visited to Artic, the Art Institute of Chicago, and have our second field trip. In this trip, we had grouped to different team. My partner is Florence. At there, we learned different styles and art elements of art. We saw Gustave Caillebotte, George Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Geogria O’ Keefe ad other arties’ work.

After that, we went to the New Wing to start our exploration. We had to choose one art work with our partner; discuss the work and give a presentation about it. We choose Victor Brauner’s Turning Point of Thirst. We have to tell some basic information about it and use the visual elements to describe the art work. And we have to write a poem about the work. Here is the poem:

Victor Brauner, Turning Point of Thirst, Oil on canvas, 19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in, 1934.

Face
Alone black
Thirsty scarily hopeless
His brain was thirst
Scarily paint black
Meaningful creative
Hope
Turning Point of Thirst

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