Here, we were tasked with finding different pictures around the SF MOMA. It is the Museum Of Modern Art that all freestyle students go to every year. We had to find pictures that either meant something to us, or really, really didn’t. The first 3 images are ones that I connect with, while the final 2 I don’t particularly enjoy.
Without further ado, welcome to my museum.
EXHIBIT A: ACCEPTED
Beatles – Red Richard Avedon:
This picture has a special meaning to me because The Beatles are really important to me. Music is one of the most important things in my life, and you will constantly see me with headphones in, listening to whatever new song I’m addicted to on repeat with enough volume to make my eardrums ring because that’s the kind of person I am. That’s why I would keep this in my personal collection because the people in it are important, so it is important.
EXHIBIT B: ACCEPTED
12x23x12 by Sol LeWitt:
This was just a beautiful piece of art. Everything else in the museum is a picture, there is some underlying meaning to every picture and you can’t relax. With this, it’s just calm. It’s beautiful and intricate and so different from everything else that I saw that it really stuck in my head. This is simultaneously incredibly intricate and very plain. It shows an incredible contrast and just speaks to me for some reason.
EXHIBIT C: ACCEPTED
Spiegel, Blutrot by Gerhard Richter:
This particular piece just seemed to catch my eye, there was no real reason behind it. It stood out in a room full of exotic artwork that all had some deep meaning behind them. This just sort of calmed me down, it was nice and simple and, compared to random pieces of warped and rusting metal signifying the faultiness of god, it was pleasant. I don’t have some deep philosophical reason to like it or anything else. I just like the way it looks and it speaks to me for some reason. If anything, this is a reflection of my character seeing as how colorful it is.
EXHIBIT D: REJECTED
Daymaker by Stephan Powers:
I really don’t like this piece, it feels to loud. There is so much going on in such a little space and on top of that, not of the pieces of art are truly significant. It is just a random collage of signs that might have a deeper meaning to some people, but to me it just looks lazy. I know “who I am” is a mess and my personality is piecemeal like this work of art, but I have standards, all of my parts mean something whether it is a deep part of my soul, or some loud colorful part to make you look, everything in me has meaning. The same can’t be said for this piece of art.
EXHIBIT E: REJECTED
Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt:
Simply put, this piece is lazy. It is something your 3 year old did, for all it is is someone drawing on a wall in different colored crayons. There is no deep meaning behind this, there is no calming aura, there isn’t even any kind of distinct pattern. With some of the other pieces, I could at least understand why some people might like the piece, but for this, it just feels tacky and lazy. This exhibition is supposed to show art that I think shows who I am and who I’m not. Above all, I’m not plain. I am a mess and I am more colorful than a rainbow, but I am not someone that you forget easily, even though it might be a bad thing. This, the only reason I remembered it was because I took a picture and thought of it as boring.