Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Intro Blog

Being from Chicago, I was SUPER excited when my STA 112 teacher told us that we were going to take a trip to Chicago to look at all of the different types of art in the city. When the bus was getting close, seeing the Chicago skyline made me feel right at home. I couldn’t wait to get off the bus and walk around my city. The first place we went to was the Art Institute of Chicago, which is such an amazing museum. It contains so many different genres of art, which was great for us to experience all of them. After the Art Institute, we went to Millennium Park to go see the bean, which is one of my favorite things in Chicago. We also went to the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College. Then went to see five of the “Pop-up” galleries that were in the city. Also, we went to the Blick art store, which I loved because that is where I bought all of my art supplies in high school. 

30 Images Blog Entry


The Freedman- John Quincy Adams Ward

Window- Attributed to Harvey Ellis

Window- Attributed to Harvey Ellis (different view)

Lock- Frank Koralewsky

The Child's Bath- Mary Cassatt

The Hippodrome- Everett Shinn

Woman (Elevation)- Gaston Lachaise

Woman (Elevation)- Gaston Lachaise

Blue and Green Music- Georgia O'Keeffe

Tattoo and Haircut- Reginald Marsh

American Gothic- Grant Wood

The Artist Looks at Nature- Charles Sheeler

That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)- Ivan Albright

The Rock- Peter Blume

Nighthawks- Edward Hopper

Picture of Dorian Gray- Ivan Albright

Clown with Drum- Walt Kuhn

A picture I took of the stairs in one of the galleries because I really liked them :)

Karttikeya, God of War, Seated on a Peacock

Still Life with Pipe, Chair, and Apples (Braque)- George Segal

Typewriter Eraser 1/18- Claes Oldenburg

Typewriter Eraser- Claes Oldenburg and Cossje Van Bruggen

The door says push but it pulls open..it made me laugh :)

Public Notice 3- Jitish Kallat. I LOVE these stairs. I think they are such a cool idea!

Again, awesome stairs!!

Calf's Head and Ox Tongue- Gustave Caillebotte. I absolutely hate seeing raw meat. It grosses me out a lot. So seeing this painting was very unsettling and I hated it immediately. But I knew that having such a strong opinion of this painting, I should take a picture of it.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte- Georges Seurat

Eve after the Fall- Auguste Rodin

Eve after the Fall- Auguste Rodin (Another View)

Day (Truth)- Ferdinand Hodler

Sky Above Clouds IV- Georgia O'Keeffe

Lamenting Group- Paul-Albert Bartholomé

Lunette from the Main Entrance of the Commerce Building- Burnham and Root

Close up of Lunette from the Main Entrance of the Commerce Building- Burnham and Root. I think it is gorgeous!

Just a picture I took somewhere inside of the museum. I think the columns are beautiful!


Jay Pritzker Pavilion


Millennium Park!!!

Chicago is an environmentally-friendly city! :)

A picture I took in the Bean (Cloud Gate) and you can see the Chicago skyline behind me :)

Blick, my favorite art store!

Sign for the Pop-up art galleries.

Picture I took inside of a hotel. I love the lights and everything.

I took this picture because I HATE Crocs. I think they just look so ugly on people's feet and there was a whole store devoted to them and they make so many different styles of these rubber shoes and I just dont like them at all.

A picture I took of a building next to Water Tower :)

The American Girl Place..I just had to take a picture of it. I used to come here with my grandma for my birthday and it was one of my favorite places ever!

Theres really nothing to explain about this. Its just funny :)

Claes Oldenburg Research

Corridor Pin, Blue

Bicycle Wheel

Spoonbridge and Cherry


Claes Oldenburg grew up in Chicago and attended Yale University. A lot of his sculptures are of very mundane objects, and are sometimes considered stereotypical. During the 1960’s, Oldenburg became associated with the Pop Art Movement. He did many of his sculptures with his wife Cossje Van Bruggen and their sculptures have been great additions to outdoor public art.