On this walking field trip, we visited 3 different galleries. The first had floral-inspired work in everything from sculptural installations to colored-pencil panels, as well as a separate, abstract, nonobjective exhibit. The second had oil paintings of city scenes, in a style that blurred parts of the painting and made others clear (as if depicting a rainy day). The third had a portrait exhibit featuring black people in their everyday lives - not photographed, as I originally thought, but drawn in pencil.
The floral exhibition was very fascinating to me due to its attention to detail. As shown in the second picture, the artist's style involves filling every possible inch of space with some small detail, and I like that idea and hope to use it in my own artwork sometime. The nonobjective exhibition in the same gallery drew me in less but still held my attention - my favorite piece is the row of boxes on the wall. Although my style of art is very different from some of the more abstract pieces, I thoroughly enjoyed making my AbEx painting last year and since then have wanted to make another...perhaps on my own time, since it does not fit with my theme or artist statement (currently in the works) I absolutely loved the second exhibition, with its distinctive style and masterful mark. I loved how some parts were blurry and some were clear, creating an image that still looked very real. I am definitely curious about how this artist developed their specific style, since it both seems to fit and deviate from the artistic norm of realism. However, I don't think I will ever make art like this, since I have no interest in city art (I have no interest in cities or living in them, so the idea of depicting them in art is unappealing to me) and the oil painting project last year, while a useful experience, proved that I have little to no patience with oil paint. The third show, the portraiture show, particularly caught my attention because, upon first glance, I thought the drawings were photographs. Upon realizing that they were, in fact, drawings, I became very amazed and couldn't resist taking pictures of every single portrait in the space. Until very recently, I wanted to draw people photorealistically for my art; I wanted to improve my mark to the point where this artist makes his art. Once it became clear to me that such a feat would be nearly impossible in the short time frame I have for each piece, however, I became more focused on developing my own specific style and deviating from the realism I once idolized above all other artistic styles. That being said, I am immensely impressed with this artist's pieces, and I like that they give representation to a group of people not typically found in museums and galleries.
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