Da station

Well I'm so glad I'm smart! I decide to tell the girls that we were going to eat dinner in Grand Central Station. We all brought our sketch book and got some food in and drawing too. We stayed there until our section we sat in closed. Then we headed upstairs and sat on the side of the wall. We stayed there for a good while drawing all the people going by until 10:30 or so. We got to experience the fire alarm getting pulled and got to see the police officers at all the doors. There were A LOT of them! I overheard a man talking who said a police officer had bomb dogs there, but nothing was wrong... just some dumb kid that pulled the alarm. I had so much fun seeing so many people in such a short time and I think I probably saw over 15,000 people just today! maybe more...

favorite day in nyc

Well, today started out at 10:00 when we headed to the Guggenheim museum. This museum was nor like any other. The outside of the building looks like a tornado with a rectangle beside it, the whole building is made out of cement. The Guggenheim museum was my favorite because it had a lot of photography. I got to see my favorite new artist, Christian MarcLay. MarcLay's work was of three huge cyanotypes. The cyanotype was of old caset tapes. This image was perfect for cyanotypes. It allowed for light to come through the film of the tapes. MarcLay layered many tape film over a huge paper. The rich color blue is beautiful. It was my all time favorite. After going down the tornado museum ( Guggenheim). We left and went to the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. This museum was super cool and it told you why they made everything. It had a reason for everything in the museum. There was so much to look at. There was a google design room designed by children to be put on the web. This was downstairs with all of the winners from all sorts of ages.

The museum of Design had the neatest stuff, and everything had a purpose, which I thought to be the coolest part. They were all about eco friendly things and recycling and reusing. I really enjoyed both museums today. They were both totally different from the Met and the Moma. They are less traditional than the other museums was got to see. The Guggenheim was the best museum in New York! (I thought) It was my style and I also enjoyed looking at Pablo Picasso. He had a small chunk in the rectangle part of the building. Today was my most favorite day in New York!!

8/10 guggen and hewitt

Today we went to the Guggenheim and I have to say, it was one of the most original museums out of all of the ones we have seen. I loved how when walking up on it you immediately notice how the architecture is more rounded and not so square like all of the other buildings that surround it. Even when you walk into it you see how there is a spiral that winds around for six stories. I think the Guggen was one of my favorite museums because it had a lot of modern art in it and also a little bit of extremely famous artists such as picasso(one of my favorites). I enjoyed seeing everything it had to offer, especially since it was a great combination of old and new masterpieces!

After leaving there, we went to eat lunch on lexington and then headed to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. This museum took me by surprise because I wasn't really informed on it too much before coming. Thankfully, it was a nice surprise because everything in it was focused on technology, and designer labels that mainly focused on recycling, and organic material use. I drew a few pieces of clothing, one that had a shirt made of "wild silk" which means silk worms were not killed in the process of making the shirt, and no harmful chemicals were used in the process as well. It was a very stylish looking outfit and I was impressed to learn that even the way things are made are important in the art/designer world. New York and all of these unique museums have been great for me to see because I feel my art perspective has expanded tremendously. Thanks NYC!!!

Jammin' in the subway!

So far I have really loved the subway because it is cheap, easy and quick. Normally we have been taking the E train and the 6 but as of yesterday those two trains have not been running everywhere we have needed to go. This gave us major problems last night when Bailey, Angelina, Sarah and I decided to go to Chinatown. The subway stations are already pretty chaotic but I felt that it was even more chaotic when we were not exactly sure what train to get on. Once we finally figured out where we needed to be we ran through the subway station to get to our platform. As we were running through the crowds of people we heard music playing and saw a crowd of people gathering around these two men. The two men were dressed in solid black with white masks over their faces. They were hip-hop dancing to Usher's "OMG"! They were amazing! We found ourselves not so worried about finding our platform anymore. When they finished dancing we continued on to our platform where we found another man playing music on metal garbage cans and buckets. He was extremely talented, as were the other two guy that we saw dancing earlier. This is one reason I love the culture in New York and one way that it is so different from the culture at home. There would never be people dancing or making music just on the side of the street. These are also some ways that I have been able to see different forms of art outside of the museums. From the two men dancing and the man playing awesome beats on a garbage can to the beautiful mosaics along the walls, art is everywhere in the subway stations!

Drawing in Grand Central

Today was our last day to visit museums and draw in New York. This morning we visited the Guggenheim museum and in the afternoon we went to Cooper-Hewitt. Both of these museum were awesome and i would love to go back because the exhibits are always changing. I wrote a little about each of them in my last blog post. Bailey, Angelina, Sarah and I all had more drawing that we needed to work on before we turn in our sketchbooks tomorrow evening so we went to Grand Central Station tonight to get in some last minute sketches. I have never been to Grand Central. It was absolutely beautiful! I have seen it in television shows and thought it was so awesome to be there. We found a great spot to sit and sketch as we ate dinner in the dining hall. I love to draw figures and I was able to do some great figure sketches! People are constantly moving in Grand Central so I had to sketch pretty quick. Once the dining hall closed we walked into the main hall and sat down in the middle of the floor to draw. We got some pretty strange looks but, hey we are in New York, I'm sure there is nothing these New Yorkers haven't seen! Aside from the strange looks, there were others that stopped to watch us draw and complimented us on our work. Although everyone around me was running to catch there train, I felt so relaxed sitting there in the middle of all the chaos. I feel like everywhere I sit down to draw here has been pretty chaotic! Tomorrow will be the end of that though because it is our last day here. I'm ready to be home but I will miss New York for sure!!

Museum, Museum and Museums!

Almost everyday since we have been in New York we have gone to a different museum. So far we have been to the MoMA, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim, the Frick, the museum of Natural History, Cloisters and the Cooper-Hewitt. I have really enjoyed each of them because they each have totally different types of art work. The MoMA had so many pieces that I recognized and had studied before. MoMA had such a variety of art work. There is something there for everyone! Modern art is what I usually like the most so the MoMA has been one of my top favorite museums that I have been to. The Metropolitan museum was completely different from MoMA. There was only one room that had modern art on display. Seeing all of the Greek statues that I have studied in art history was pretty awesome. I also loved all of the Egyptian sculptures and Asian sculptures. We took the summer interns tour, which was great! I liked having a tour guide because I get pretty lazy and don't want to read about each piece I look at so It was kind of nice having someone just tell me what each piece was! Haha! Bailey, Sarah, Angelina and I had to pick two museums to go to on our own without Mrs. Haney. One of the museums we chose to visit was the Frick. The Frick have a lot of older paintings that were breath taking but honestly, it is probably my least favorite museum. I saw a couple of pieces that I was interested in and drew them in my sketch book. I think this was my least favorite because there were not as many pieces that i recognized. By far the most interesting place we have visited has been Cloisters! The Cloisters is a museum that is a part of the Metropolitan museum and everything that is inside was donated by the Rockefellers. There is room after room filled with gorgeous medieval art and furniture. I have never seen such beautiful architecture. Another museum we went to was the Museum of Natural History. When I first stepped foot in this museum all I could think about was the movie "Night at The Museum"! I felt like a kid because I love museum that dinosaurs and large animals! I think I took fifty pictures of the elephants that were in there because I LOVE elephants and they were life size!! This museum would be number two on my favorites list, under MoMA. Today we went to the Guggenheim and the Cooper-Hewtitt, which is the National Design Museum. I have always wanted to go to the Guggenheim because I have seen pictures of it and the actual building itself is so amazing! It is one huge spiral and from each floor on the inside you can see every level of the museum. The architecture was really fun and somewhat challenging to draw. They had so many cool exhibits that used projectors that flashed different videos and pictures on the wall. After we left the Guggenheim we walked a couple of blocks over and went to the Cooper-Hewitt. This was the second museum that we chose to visit on our own. It was definately the smallest museum but had really cool, modern designs from clothing, furniture and fabrics to new inventions. Some of the designs were wild! It was crazy to think that someone had thought some of those things up! My favorite design was a dress made completely our of shoelaces. I have enjoyed all of the museum and I would like to visit some of them again if I get to come back to New York!

August 10 Blog

I went to an art museum last month in Arkansas and saw my first Picasso in real life. It literally felt like I was meeting a celebrity. I didn't know how to approach it and I kind of felt nervous around it. My heart was racing all because of a famous painting... Then I saw a Monet painting... And I got to the point I was worried I may have a heart attack. When we went to MoMA in NYC I saw all these amazing, gorgeous and FAMOUS paintings by all these miraculous artists and I really could not believe my eyes. Starry Night was right in front of my face. I might of well have just met the Pope. It's funny how some paintings are that amazing. I really could compare them to celebrities. Kind of like you want to meet the star of the show because they are so good for what they do and famous- whereas the side parts aren't as exciting and you may even just walk right past them. Either way art is art and someone will appreciate it- whether I believe it is good or bad... Kind of like acting or singing. Someone will always love someones' work.

I have had such a great experience in New York and seeing ALL the different pieces of art. I'd love to come back here.