I went to a GMU Artbus trip to NY yesterday. It was very fun and great except for some trouble I was in in that morning. What happened is that I missed the bus that left GMU at 6:00am and had to take a bus by myself from Chinatown in D.C. which costed me another $20><..Anyways, as soon as I got to the Penn. Station in New York at about 2:30pm, I went to Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and saw Yoko-san there, who I was going to take an artbus with.
One of the greatest exhibits we saw was the sculpture pieces of Richard Serra. There were gigantic sculpture pieces, that looked like huge winding curtain made of steel. People can actually walk into the folds where you feel like you are standing in a mysterious round room of steel without ceiling. When you walk along the wall, winding and tilting walls make you little dizzy. He uses waterproof steel, and somehow the surface has beautiful marks of dripping water without any rust on it. I got a lot of inspiration from his work, and I hope I could apply some dripping techniques he uses on my own painting as well.
We also saw many of other amazing paintings of Pollock (in the picture), Monet, Van Gogh, Rothko, De Kooning, Newman, etc... and fortunatelly, a lot of them were the works that we are supposed to know for the midterm exam for Art Now we are taking!
After that, we went to Menkuitei and ate ramen which was very tasty. One day trip is just too short, and I wished we had more time to spend in New York. But, absolutely it was a great trip and hopefully I will go to NY again before I go back to Japan this winter.
One of the greatest exhibits we saw was the sculpture pieces of Richard Serra. There were gigantic sculpture pieces, that looked like huge winding curtain made of steel. People can actually walk into the folds where you feel like you are standing in a mysterious round room of steel without ceiling. When you walk along the wall, winding and tilting walls make you little dizzy. He uses waterproof steel, and somehow the surface has beautiful marks of dripping water without any rust on it. I got a lot of inspiration from his work, and I hope I could apply some dripping techniques he uses on my own painting as well.
We also saw many of other amazing paintings of Pollock (in the picture), Monet, Van Gogh, Rothko, De Kooning, Newman, etc... and fortunatelly, a lot of them were the works that we are supposed to know for the midterm exam for Art Now we are taking!
After that, we went to Menkuitei and ate ramen which was very tasty. One day trip is just too short, and I wished we had more time to spend in New York. But, absolutely it was a great trip and hopefully I will go to NY again before I go back to Japan this winter.