Julio Sabangan
Imagery, Identity, and Culture
2/22/19
Museum Trip
I am the type of person who drifts off and finds themselves wondering around aimlessly observing, discovering, admiring, and learning on my own. Although I attended with people in the class, I found myself peeling away from the groups and advancing to the other exhibits in the museum. However, as I travelled lonesome, I began to become immerse into the artwork surrounding me. I understood a lot of the artworks that people were making. As Judith Howard states from Social Psychology of Identities, “People behave toward objects on the basis not of their concrete properties, but of the meanings these objects have for them.” That itself drew me towards these certain pieces of art.
Blue Carts & Barbed Wired, 2018 Woolpunk (b. 1971)
At first when I looked at this, I thought to myself, “What a way to exemplify the fabrication over the remains of industrialism. —Literally…” That is basically what Woolpunk did. This photo was taken from Jersey City. An older city that has seen better days, is full of places like this; abandoned and dilapidated. In the description of this pieced it mentions the irony of abandoned lots like such being bought by the bidders and these lots have billboard signs above them stating, “Jersey City Make It Yours.” Looks like Woolpunk is showing that change is coming and that she sees it using the fabric to cover the blanks spots.
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This piece is interesting. This was displayed in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Hall on the bottom floor. This was created by Min This piece is interesting. This was displayed in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Hall on the bottom floor. This is called S/N and was created by Min Jeong Cho, grade 12, of Tenafly, High School.
This spoke out to me greatly. This is the division of South and North Korea. People are holding on to each other trying to stay unified. There are two hands in the painting that are trying to reach each other, however, the yellow line prevents that from happening. This is a really powerful piece. This shows so many emotions of being divided.
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Another painting from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Hall. This piece is called, Through My Eyes. It was created by Erica Chung, grade 10, homeschooled. Out of all the paints in this hallway, this has to be by far my favorite piece. This tells a story within itself. The piece being called Through My Eyes, makes you wonder what the artist sees. Having a camera actually pop out at you indicates that the camera are her eyes. This might be around leap here, but I believe that this painting wants us to visualize ourselves since the camera popping out are her eyes.
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Through My Window, 2017 Wonju Seo (b. 1964)
Initially, seeing this piece for the first time, it was overwhelming. There were a lot of things going on all at once. The artist strongly depicted memories using a visual language. The different patterns and colors, I did eventually see this a one’s memory. The shadows casting behind the fabric make out as waves and the darker cloths make out the land and the yellow fabric separates the land and sea. The artist wholeheartedly shows the outside as something beautiful, yet from a memory they experienced from many years ago. The style that the artist used is very traditional twist their own modern twist of their memories.
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Bernabe Mendez (Spiderman) 2007, Ducle Pinzón (b. 1974)
The term, “Not All Heroes Wear Capes” is what I think of when I see this. I am a huge comic book nerd. I loved seeing this piece there. The meaning behind it impacted me a lot with this as well. The artist has a collection of photographs like such about immigrants doing important jobs that go unnoticed. In a way, superheroes get credit as a superhero, however when they are in their alternative life they go unnoticed as well. Peter Parker as Peter Parker is just an average person, however when his mask comes on, he becomes Spiderman and everyone adores him. In a way, Pinzón is doing the exact same thing. Dressing people up in superhero costumes so we can appreciate them.
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