Project # 2 ! Art Gallery Visit # 1

A.) 1.) Yaacov Agam’s Free Standing Painting, 1971 created with painted aluminum, wood, and stainless steel made an impression on me. I thought that this work of art was super fascinating and pulled my attention. I think that Agam did an awesome job using the effect of art and it played with your eyes.

A.) 2.) Jack Youngerman’s acrylic on canvas, Roundabout, 1970 had both made and impact and an impression on me. It impacted me because it looked simple enough like I could create a painting similar. It made an impression on me because even though the shaped made it look simple, the colors created a complexity.

B.) 1.) I had felt a connection with, Thomas Hart Benton’s lithograph, Old Man Reading, 1941 because the man reading looks depressed. I had mad the connection of the time the work of art was created and what was occurring, the world wars. I had found this lithograph really impressive because it displayed what most people were experiencing during this rough time.

B.) 2.) I had also felt a connection with Karin Davie’s oil on canvas, Pushed, Pulled, Depleted, & Duplicated # 7, 2002-2003. This was a series of paintings, all similar with the lines and curves that had added the effects to the work of art. I had liked this particular one out of the painting because it had represented to me the confusion of being tugged in all different directions.

C.) 1.) I would like to know more about Francesco Clemente’s, oil on linen, Son 1984. I had stared at this painting for awhile because of the contrast throughout the painting. I can not figure out what the big yellow circles were supposed to represent. By being titled Son, I had thought that it was maybe representative of his children.

C.) 2.) I would also like to know more about Lisa Stefanelli’s oil on board,Boldwood 1966. This work of art also intrigued me because I cannot quite figure out what she is trying to represent. I would like to understand what she was trying to create or whether was simply just a design that means nothing.