11- Gallery visit

Step 1: The Gallery/Musuem

Questions about the Place:
1. What is the name of Gallery/Museum you visited?

Guggenheim
2. What is the URL of the Gallery/Museum you visited

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum

3. Why did you select this Gallery/Musuem?

Ive always wanted to go to this museum 

Step 2: The Gallery

Questions about the physical space. (You must use Google Street View to "walk" through the gallery to observe the gallery space.)1. What type of lighting is used? The interior is set up so the middle of the building is a skylight, but there is also lights on th eceiling to help light up the artwork

2. What colors are used on the walls? the walls are all off white

3. What materials are used in the interior artchitecture of the space? 

4. How is the movement of the viewer through the gallery space? the viewer goes around in the circle of the layout on each floor, with separate rooms in certain areas

Step 3: The Artwork

 Questions about the artwork:1. How are the artworks organized? they put paintings and sculptures out together
2. How are the artrworks similar? they are contemporary
3. How are the artworks different? they come from different parts of the world
4. How are the artworks framed? they have different frames for different pieces, either black or white frames
5. How are the artworks identified and labeled? there is a label next to each artwork with a description of everything
6. What is the proximity of the artwork to each other? there are sections the same size next to each other, differentiating pieces or artists

Step 4: Art Criticism Exercise

Artist:  Glenn Ligon

Title of work: Prisoner of Love #1

Media: Oil and gesso on linen

Date: 1992

Size: 80 x 30 inches

Source of picture (URL): https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/prisoner-of-love-1-glenn-ligon/GQGAPW3z8lhp6A

Description –  Describe what you see.  (subject matter)? is it a white background with black handwritings repeating the same sentence: " WE ARE THE INK THAT GIVES THE WHITE PAGE A MEANING" in all capitals all the way down the artwork. as the writing reaches the bottom of the page it gets less clearer to read and smudged. 

Formal analysis – (form)  What principles and elements were used and how are they used?  Contrast was used in this piece because of the white background and black writing, 

Bracketing - Is there anything in or about this work that reminds you of anything else? Do you see any symbols, metaphors, or allegories?  (iconography) The saying that is repeated in this work is a metaphor

Interpretation - (content)  What do you think the artist was trying to say? I feel like the artist was trying to say that life without each other is nothing, the ink representing people and white blank page life.

Artist:  Xaviera Simmons

Title of work:  Index Two Composition Three

Media: Chromogenic print

Date: 2012

Size: 50 x 40 inches 

Source of picture (URL): https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/index-two-composition-three-xaviera-simmons/qwEh27taCwTBrw

Description –  Describe what you see.  (subject matter)?  It is a person lifting up their skirt, but where you would see a body it is actually a bunch of what seems random things. There are images, clothespins, a braid, a plant, and others.

Formal analysis – (form)  What principles and elements were used and how are they used?  Color was used because a lot of the objects were very colorful, form because the objects take the form of what you would expect a human, texture because some of the objects are textured, movement because pieces of the work lead your eye down and through the objects, and variety because there are a lot of things going on in the piece but they all come together

Bracketing - Is there anything in or about this work that reminds you of anything else? Do you see any symbols, metaphors, or allegories?  (iconography) There are symbols in every object in this piece because they all they to tell the viewer who the person was

Interpretation - (content)  What do you think the artist was trying to say? I feel like this piece is trying to tell the viewer who the person being photographed was with objects not based on what they looked like. it made the viewer feel as if the person was familiar by seeing what they like through personal objects they would own 

Artist:  Catherine Opie

Title of work:  Self-Portrait/Cutting

Media: Chromogenic print

Date: 1993

Size: 40 x 29 7/16 inches

Source of picture (URL): https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait-cutting-catherine-opie/yQG2x2FpePzJXw

Description –  Describe what you see.  (subject matter)? It is a female with a green intricate background, and the female has cuts/ scratches of what looks like a children's drawing of a home, with clouds and two stick figure girls holding hands

Formal analysis – (form)  What principles and elements were used and how are they used?  Color with the deep green background, line and shape with the images cut into the back, and contrast in the light skin of the body and the deep background color

Bracketing - Is there anything in or about this work that reminds you of anything else? Do you see any symbols, metaphors, or allegories?  (iconography) The scratches/cuts on the back represent what she wishes she had, but her wishes caused pain

Interpretation - (content)  What do you think the artist was trying to say? I feel the artist is trying to say that they have been caused a lot of pain for coming out as gay and they want to have a happy life being gay but it isn't or wasn't easy to achieve for them

4. Answer this question:What did you think of "visiting" the Gallery and purposefully looking at the exhibition from a different perspective - the physical space, the architecture, theme, etc.?

I thought the gallery was very interesting, the floor plan was very unique how it takes people in a circle and every piece of work was given the same amount of space on each floor. It makes me really want to go visit this gallery in person. I feel like it is a very good space to display contemporary work because the building was very modern and open.