Reflection On Visiting Nova South Eastern University Art Museum
Art museums show us a person’s inventiveness and originality. Walking through the Nova South Eastern University Art Museum certainly proved my original statement. As soon as I entered the museum I came in contact with the most extravagant piece of art I’ve seen. The title of this piece is The Indigo Room or Is Memory Water Solube, 2004. This piece is by Edouard Duval-Carrie, he is from Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives in Miami, FL. This work explores the contemporary experience of Haiti. This work of art explores the countries life and surroundings. Duval-Carrie requested the work of high school students and collected pieces of history and local Haitian objects. This work inspired me because it showed me a story of the Haitian culture and its people. This work certainly aroused quite an interest in Haitian culture and how it became to be. I questioned how someone can come up with an idea to build this project and how to show the world in such a small space such big emotion.
One of the most interesting Non-European/Non-North American Work of Art that I encountered at the Museum was The Ritual Bowl of Areogun of Osi. This was made by Yoruba tribe member in the year which lived between 1880-1954. This is an early 20th century encrustation of the strength of women. This shows a woman balancing a big basket on her head while managing four young children right below her arm. Since the early beginning of time women have been our backbones and have always managed to ensure strength. This work aroused a feeling of empowerment. It showed me that we are able to balance anything that is brought to us with concentration. Questions I originally had been how she was able to control the children while balancing the huge basket.
There were many pieces in the art museum that were amazing but also disturbing. It showed truth and reality which many can find scary. The name of this work is “A Violin for the Guardian Angel, 1966. ” The painting is on the wall and it shows a dark guardian protecting a different force, this force doesn’t seem malevolent nor light. This did not arouse a happy feeling, it brought a feeling of fear, what if the black figure is protecting something else rather than an angel? This artwork is by Jose Bedia who lives and works in Miami, FL. I selected this work because it was so outstanding, yet fearful. I questioned who had enough of a dark mind to draw these figures and actually bring them to life via art.
Many exhibitions in museums can open our eyes to a culture we never knew about. This museum specifically had collected are in between 60 years. The title of this work is called “60 years of collecting art. ” The purpose of this museum was to show the collection of the what’s been collected for 60 years. This collection was extremely diverse. It showed pieces from Pablo Picasso to Lucebert which comes from a Dutch artist. This showed many different pieces, such as monkeys, to paintings, and finally to vases by Pablo Picasso. The vases by Pablo Picasso are an object most significant due to its prestige importance by a unique artist. One of the most significant, was Face, 1955. This object shows us the face of a woman drawn on a vase, the object feels most certainly like protection and how women are the face of everything we do.
In conclusion, this visitation should me what artist can achieve, and it was certainly motivating. Although, I am not pursuing an art degree, education must acknowledge how important the arts are. If I was able to take something home, it would be one of the vases from Pablo Picasso. Picasso is one of the world’s most renounced artist. His work gives you vision and life, which also promotes creativity. This piece would be eccentric to wherever I am able to add it. It reminds me to keep moving forward and to promote inclusivity to my students.
