Have you ever walked into an art gallery or Art Museum and wasn’t quite sure what you were looking at?. Yes, I too have been puzzled by the things I seen. I started looking at other people faces and asking myself, “Do they honestly understand what this is? What is means?”. Sometimes I felt embarrassed that I was not able to appreciate good art. I guess my interest wasn’t as strong as others. Over the years my interest toward art began to change, no I wasn’t Picasso, but I knew how to draw more than some stick figures. In high school I was given an art class and those fifty-three minutes was the best of my life. It was a time to escape from the ordinary pen and paper with lines to a blank sheet that I could control the outcome. I was able to choose from a pencil, colored pencils, markers, a paintbrush and even chalk. After high school, art wasn’t really a part of my life, I still loved the idea that I could create whatever I had in my mind and it would be art, but I just didn’t have the time nor did I try to put the time in. Then I came to LaGuardia Community College, here I was offered a chance to take an art class. I didn’t second guess the option when it was time to register, I was overly excited.
Throughout the class, the Professor showed us many different forms of art that were created by various great artists around the world. She often explained what we were going to be learning and she planned trips to Museums where the students can get the physically experience of viewing art up close. One day, the Professor took us on a class trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is where I first laid eyes on a very interesting piece entitled “Canyon”. As I viewed the piece my interest continued to grow. It was a basic painting on a canvas, just as any other painting, but at the bottom was as stuffed bald eagle attached. I have never seen anything like this, as I read the short piece of info about the painting, that the Museums put next to the artworks, I read that this masterpiece was created in 1959, by a man named Robert Rauschenberg. I have never heard of him, but I was immediately drawn to his sense of style.
Robert Rauschenberg died at the age of 82, but he leaves behind a timeline of events and the legacy of being a pioneer to new ideas and ways of creating art. Robert Rauschenberg is known as the greatest artist of printmaking and for introducing the world an transformation from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He inspired other artist to have freedom of possibility by finding beauty in everyday, he took ordinary everyday objects and added them into his work. This form of creation later paved the way to Pop Art and Conceptual Art. Robert Rauschenberg was most famous for his Combines, combined found objects and paintings. Although many people viewed them as trash, he declared that this was and still is a form of art. Robert Rauschenberg was not the only artist considered the greatest of printmaking and silk-screening, among him were Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, but Robert was the best out of them all.
Throughout the class, the Professor showed us many different forms of art that were created by various great artists around the world. She often explained what we were going to be learning and she planned trips to Museums where the students can get the physically experience of viewing art up close. One day, the Professor took us on a class trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is where I first laid eyes on a very interesting piece entitled “Canyon”. As I viewed the piece my interest continued to grow. It was a basic painting on a canvas, just as any other painting, but at the bottom was as stuffed bald eagle attached. I have never seen anything like this, as I read the short piece of info about the painting, that the Museums put next to the artworks, I read that this masterpiece was created in 1959, by a man named Robert Rauschenberg. I have never heard of him, but I was immediately drawn to his sense of style.
Robert Rauschenberg died at the age of 82, but he leaves behind a timeline of events and the legacy of being a pioneer to new ideas and ways of creating art. Robert Rauschenberg is known as the greatest artist of printmaking and for introducing the world an transformation from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He inspired other artist to have freedom of possibility by finding beauty in everyday, he took ordinary everyday objects and added them into his work. This form of creation later paved the way to Pop Art and Conceptual Art. Robert Rauschenberg was most famous for his Combines, combined found objects and paintings. Although many people viewed them as trash, he declared that this was and still is a form of art. Robert Rauschenberg was not the only artist considered the greatest of printmaking and silk-screening, among him were Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, but Robert was the best out of them all.
It's so nice to see your discovery of art, and great that this piece "Canyon" jumped out to you. There is a recent show in Washington D.C. which is of immense importance in the art world. Have fun with art, and I hope it leads you down wonderful paths leading to new discoveries.
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