In order to have enough time for all the venues, I designed a detailed route map for our Chicago art trip. There were eight places to go, but in order to catch some surprises on the streee, we chose to walk for most of the time. Our first stop was at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Honestly, I did not like most of the artworks displayed there... Some of the artworks were too personal to understand by us without the captions, also I kind of felt that I couldn't got myself engaged into that museum... The reason of this feeling might be that I was not allowed to touch the artworks, or also because most of the artists were someone I didn't know very well before. Then we took a cab to the
Art Institue of Chicago. I had been here before so I already knew there were so many pieces of artwork there that it was impossible for us to meet with each of them in such a short time. So I only picked some of the halls to visit: I went to see the paintings because I am now enrolling in an oil-painting class; I went to see the Japenese artworks because I just finished learnt about Japanese art history last semester; also I saw some artworks from few other collections. Although I couldn't touch the artworks there in the Art Institue neither, but I felt I like the Art Institue much more. Because I had taken art courses before, so I was able to know the information about most of the artworks there. I was familiar enough with those works so I could observe them in the Art Institute with my own understandings then understood them more deeply. Our next stops were the
Pop Up Galleries. I like these galleries because I felt the artworks there were easier to understand than the ones in the Museum of Contemporary Art. Also we had a chance to talk to the gallery owner and knew more about the artists and their works. Some of the artists were just graduated from college which encouraged me to think about my future after my graduation... Finally we walked to the
Millennium Park to see the Cloud Gate. The park was definitely my favorite place from the trip. We were free all the time to take photos, touch and get a close contact with everything. I thought that communication between me and the artworks helped me a lot to feel the artworks and the creaters. We walked most of the times during the day, so we had a chance to see the street views. I think the stores' window displays in Chicago were various... Some of them were really successful in their using of colors and the lights to catch our eyes.
Here is the link to the album for the photos from the day (I tried to put them here but the format went messed up after I inserted the images... Sorry you have to go to another link):
Visual Tour in Chicago (Picasa Album)
The sketches are posted in another blog entry:
Chicago Trip Sketches
The researches:
Artists Research
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