I did not go to the Guggenheim Museum with the class for personal reasons, but I did go on the day after alone. My first time traveling to New York was pretty exciting, I felt independent as I took the subways and trains to the destination. When I walked into the Museum, my first reaction was, "Wow... this is a big spiral building..." but might I add, everything about the museum was amazing. The paintings, the architecture, the gift shop, even the cafe was designed and constructed beautifully. "Believing in our ability to communicate with spirits in another realm" (Dover). Her paintings were drawn with the concept of communicating with spirits which can be easily seen in her paintings. Her emotions are and her personal beliefs play a big part in her creativity. Painting on a canvas that expresses her ideology is what made her famous along with 5 other women. One of her works, "The Ten Largest" focuses on the stages of life and the connection between humanity and the universe, "The mix of floral, geometric, and biomorphic forms with letters and invented words creates a vocabulary of complex and shifting meanings, with which af Klint herself appears to have grappled" (Dover). This is evident because it reveals a concept of survivability of evolution based on Gaia philosophy as her, "Picture that is both image and diagram... she's offering a Gaia-like theory" (Dover). I would also like to point out that Dover's idea was to plan ahead of what the next generations would be like and draw accordingly. This is brilliant.
What I find fascinating is that some of her paintings are symmetrical while the other half was basically "all over the place". Symmetrical paintings are really vibrant with individuals eyes and very "eye candy-like". On the other hand, her other paintings looked discombobulated as if she was painting it and trying to convey a message with her spiritual self. This as well is very appealing to look at. With these two types of painting styles together, it brings a nice touch. I am just wondering if she will ever put two of those styles into one canvas, and if so, will it be nice to look at?
I would say that spirituality does place influence on my works and identity. I'd like to say we all communicate with each other through art pieces instead of physicality. I believe in that ideology, and since music is a type of art and it can be a universal language to everyone. In addition, since I believe that my brain has been influenced by this ideology, subconsciously I believe it shows in some of my work as a video production student.
I could somewhat relate to Dover's works when it comes to planning ahead into the future with her creations. There was once a time where I was young and had the idea to film myself grow up as the years go by. Although the concept may be different, I feel like it has a similar theme to it. Some of the theories that Dover represent is somewhat of an evolutional theory as generation survives that will be the fit "characters" will be the ones to live and look at her paintings. Also, her paintings present emotions visually which I would love to connect people with some of the future films I am planning to make in this semester.
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