Disorientation

It has been a very disorienting feeling for me, but at the same time an eye-opening experience because I have not seen many of the things I saw during this semester. Even though it was the most confusing I thought that the abstract art works might have had the most profound effect on me. This may be because they are like an intricate puzzle. It’s very cryptic and mysterious. I think it had an effect on me because of that disorienting feel that you get when you look at an abstract piece of art. Unlike other things you can easily relate to things that you know but abstract art has this I have no idea what’s going on feel. Like my trip to the Rubin Museum but there was so much to it. The layers and layers of culture, history, and religion that had to be understood to fully understand the works of art. But then I slowly began to piece things together. I think this is part of the allure of art. This process of learning and understanding new things.

This is my tutorial on Himalayan art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppXEVH6jf6w

To Check out the gallery click here.

I went to MOMA, also known as the museum of modern art and checked out a couple exhibitions. Sum of Days, talk to me, and de Kooning  were a couple of ones that i went to. I really enjoyed the talk to me exhibition which had a lot more technological artwork. Like the clock, where two men are sweeping garbage and from an bird’s eye view displays the time. The de kooning exhibition was very abstract and I did not enjoy it at all. I look at abstract art and find it hard to understand what the painter is trying to express. Like the picture above, all i see is colors and shapes, which i don’t really understand. This frustration maybe because I do not have enough background knowledge on the paintings and this time the disorienting feeling has overwhelmed me. The intricate puzzle is too complex that I don’t even know where to begin.