Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Public Art Tour


Today, I went to the Loop Public Art Tour. It is a new experience for me, looking at the map, listening for the audio and walking to the art works I knew, to relearned and know deeper about the artworks. It is very interesting to listen to the audio and look at an artwork. This is like a tour inside a museum; actually it is an outdoor tour. When I listen to the audio, I feel very participate in appreciate the artwork.

In this tour, I found out many things that I never knew before. The painting in the top of the building, I did not know it was a "tattoo" of the building. Then, I knew there are three flats behind our school in the lake river, but I never knew that there is a Vietnam Memorial under the stairs. Also, I did not know the park near the Art Institute is "Public" garden. After this tour, I feel that things are not like what we think. I learned that we should know deeper and find the truth of every things that around us. Study will not end, wherever it is in school or in life.

I strongly recommend the tour to you, in the audio tour; you can learn things that you never learn before. Also, you will enjoy walking with yourself, listening the mp3, taking photograph for the artworks in the Loop : )
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The Lovers by Rene Magritte is painted by oil in 1928. Rene Magritte was one of the major figures of Surrealism and perhaps the greatest Belgian artist of the 20th century. In this painting, we can defined it is a Surrealism painting by the humorous effect and the special performance technique. When you look at this painting, you will ask yourself what this painting means, why do the lovers covered their face and kiss? As you see, there’re two figures in the middle of the room, the background is kind of dark. You can feel something from it.

I choose this painting because when I first look at it. The two figures come though my eyes and I can’t stop thinking of what it means. I want to find the meaning of this painting. When Magritte was fourteen, his mother died by drowning herself in the river. When his mother was found, her dress was covering her face. People said this event affect Magritte’s artwork. However, Magritte said “My painting is visible images which conceal nothing… they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my picture, one ask oneself this simple question ‘What does that mean?’ It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.”

Are we really thinking too much? How do you think about it? Do you think it just made for art, or does it have a meaning behind it?
 

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