Neue Gallerie
A couple of weeks ago I went to the Neue Gallery on the Upper East Side. This was a new gallery that had been open for a couple of weeks when I went there. The gallery showed the art of Gustav Klimit. Klimit was a painter who lived in Vienna 100 years ago. He achieved his fame by making portraits of famous families in Vienna. The style that he used was borrowed from French painters of the time, like Monet. I find it hard to understand the meaning of the paintings, so I decided to go on a small tour of the gallery. The tour really was helpful. The guide eluded to other artists and other paintings. Probably at the begining of the semester I wouldn’t have been able to understand what she was talking about. Now I understood what was being said. This showed how far I have come this semester in my knowledge of art. However I felt like the only person under the age of 40 in the whole gallery. The Neue Gallery is a very interesting place to attend if one is an experienced art goer.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I think art needs to be put into context sometimes in order to understand it fully and thankfully you got that context from the tour guide.