Special Edition Blog: Trip to the Art Institute








Professor Peck



  The name of this piece is called "Composition in Blue" (1921-1927) and it was done by Fernand Le'ger. It was created with oil on canvas and it was painted during his "mechanical period". In this period, he created paintings that had tubular machine like structures to them. This piece inspired me because of these mechanical parts and the shapes that are formed from them. It is funny when you think of any type of mechanics you think of a designed "order" to things. The painting is shaped in an abstract form seemingly unorganized, but all somehow related like the chaos theory. In the painting it seems like a robot (upperleft) is climbing a rocket or building. As the rest of the city shaped in circles and squares lay in the background. Also I notice like little eyesin he piece as if to be onlookers watching the robot scale the rocket.

 
  This piece was created by Lee Bontecou in 1960, the piece is "Untitled". The untitled piece was composed of old canvas discarded from an old laundry. The canvas was stretched and attached by copper wire to an armature and welded framework. From reading the description in the museum, it compares the opening (hole) to a geographical or biological reference. Like maybe a volcano, a black hole, or a hole in the human body. It inspired me because seeing the hole led me to the question of what is inside? The layered canvas provides endless possibilities or answers to the question. If one thought on the biological level you would look into a body to see bones and organs. If another looked through the hole on a geographical level, you would expect to see the earths crust or its molten hot center. If I looked at the hole on an spiritual level, I would expect to see a soul or a lack of it. Therefore, begging an introspective question, asking is my soul still intact according to my actions or has it become polluted/lost due to them. I wonder what someone else would see inside.

 
  This oil painting was created by the surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, called "The Rapidity of Sleep" in 1945. This painting inspired me because of the ripple affects the brush strokes make you seem to travel at a great speed. Even with the cluods they give the same affect causing a blur because when moving at a slower pace the clouds would be more defined. The object in the landscape looks to me like a wasteland of broken bones. The bones represent to me a sign of aging, that these bones or the structure of what the dream was is starting to end. As if the framework for the dream state of sleep is decaying at a fast pace, waiting for the dreamer to awake.