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ART MUSEUM CRITIQUE

Use the following format for your museum critique; answers must be typed below the questions
and all questions must appear in full on your final copy. Pay careful attention to the required
number of words for those questions that have them. Failure to follow the instructions here and on
your syllabus will result in a substantially low grade. Elaboration of points, excellent arguments,
and good writing garner higher grades.

Kambrea Zarogoza Humanities 7th period

1. 1) Which museum did you visit? BYU Museum of Art

1. 2) Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme, period, geographic
region, or topic) within the museum. {150 words}
There was a really neat and quirky exhibit, called Curiouser, it showed the earth through the eyes
of a very creative and out of the box women. The artist, Nina Katchadourian, touched bases with
her inner child while creating beautifully simple works art such as several bathroom potraits using
the commode paper products. She made multiple videos while on long plane flights of her wearing
the different head dresses and scarves singing, kind of like a musically thing. She took the
simplest of things and made them something unique. She took a 3D pen and filled in the broken
parts of webs, microphoned popcorn trying to see what the pops say in morse code, the first word
was “WE” and they took it and preserved them in bronze. Nina took one of the things that people
use every week and broke it down. She made a geneology chart of a grocery store. Now, it was
not a concept that I understood fully, but it was interesting to see where her mind goes. Through
out her creative journey working on this exhibit, she did a lot of very creative things.

1. 3) Give a brief, one paragraph description of a special, temporary exhibit (for help, ask
museum staff what these are; they are usually in one of the first rooms). {100 words}
One of the special temporary exhibits, Plexus, that I liked was the very first one that you saw as
you entered the museum. it appeared to be a whole bunch of strings layed in the colors of the
rainbow. The rainbow moves with you as you walk. It was magical to see it come to life. It wasn’t
just a couple of strings, it was like thousands upon thousandss, 80 miles worth of string to be
exact. To a child this piece looks like the colors are magically floating in the air. Which is what the
artist, Gabriel Dawe, wanted. He wanted people to look at it and feel like they were little kids
again, exploring their creative side.

1. 4) What do you think the museum administration and/or exhibit curators want you to learn or
gain from the exhibits you viewed? {100 word minimum}
I think that they wanted visitors to learn that there is beauty is everything. There was such a
variety of exhibits there that you got a little taste of everything. We got to see religous art and the
meanings behind them. We got to see some very quirky art and the meanings behind them. We
also got to see one man’s art that evovles as he moves throughout his journey in life. I think that
the administration and exhibit curators want visitors to know that anything can be art. Let your
mind flow free and express yourself. There are no rules to art and you get to see that an artist gets
to do their own kind of thing. You may havbe to study certain types of art, but ultimately, your art is
your art and whatever medium you use, it is still art.

1. 5) What kind of information is provided about the works? Where might you look for further
information if you were interested? (Name three possibilities)
There was either a lot of information provided for the pieces, or there was nothing. By the
paintings there were some plaques on the walls that gave off the inspiration, or you could go onto
the museum’s website and it gives some details. The third place that I would say to look for
information is the pamphlets that were in the front of the museum that talks about what is at the
museum currently.

1. 6) Choose several works that particularly appealed to you. Explain why you were drawn to
these works. Comment on the subject, style, medium, time period, etc. Who were the artists?
What message do you think the artists were trying to convey in the works you chose to
discuss? This question must be answered in its entirety. {This should be at least 500 words}
One of my favorite works was this wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ. It dates back to 1470 bc. The
description they had about it said that wooden scultpures of Christ would be put in sepulchers and
various grave yards to remember the sacrifice of Christ and his ability to redeem poeple. This
sculpture was really intriguing to me. It was relly well preserved and laid out on a white clothe as if
it were the realy Jesus Christ laying in his tomb. The presentation of it was beautiful. Even more
beautiful was the amount of detail that was engraved into the body of Christ, you could see the
holes in his hands and feet. The thorny crown and hairs on his head. There was even a stab
wound in the side, which I did not know happened to Christ. This piece taught me something new,
and it just kind of spoke to me. Another work that I really loved was in the same exhibit called “To
Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion”. It was a glass stained window of Jesus at
the the well with a women. Stained glass is one of the most magnificent pieces of art work that I
see. Glass is such a fragile thing and the complexity of making it and not breaking it intrigues me.
A lot of detail goes into making a stained glass window. If I understand correctly the plaque said
that it was taken from the old Provo tabernacle when it burned down before it was turned into a
temple. The image itself has no meaning to me. I just love the medium used and the way it looks
is so pretty. One of the quirkier art pieces that I absolutely loved was from the exhibit “Curiouser”
by Nina Katchadourian, was this one room and it displayed mulitple photos that she took. They all
were of very simple things, such seatbelts, a lemon peel, those wafer cookie things, a sweatshirt,
etc. She took these simple things and made them something bigger than what they were. The
seatbelt had a man’s head reflecting in it and she called it “Buckle Head”. The lemon peel had a
man digitally added underneath it and she named it “Lemon Arch”. The wafer cookies were stood
straight up and she called it “Twin Towers”. With the sweatshirt she made a gorilla face out of it
and called it “Gorilla Sweatshirt”. I loved the simplicity of everything in this section of her exhibit.
Every piece had a different medium in the beginning but they all ended up as photographs. The
time period of these weren’t as important as the quirkiness and simplicity of it was. I think every
artist has a mission statement. For Nina it wa to show us the world through her eyes. She showed
us her quirky little antics, she showed us to enjoy the little things in life. She took some of the
simplist things such as popcorn, toilet paper products, grocery stores, even lego men, and turned
them into something interesting. Art doesn’t have to be this big and beautiful painting. It can a
simple bonnet on an airplane made out of toilet paper.

1. 7) How did the artworks you looked at relate to material we have discussed in class? (They do
relate in many ways, you just need to look for those relationships). {Minimum of 150 words}
Well, I think that this art work relates to a lot of things that we talked about. In the Happiness
and the Good Life unit, we talked about many religions and their beliefs in higher powers.
There are many churches that believe in a Jesus Christ, so in the art exhibit called “To Magnify
the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion” I got to see many people’s views on who Jesus
Christ was and what his actions were. It was cool to see other christian denominations(other
than my own) takes on Jesus and scriptural stories. I remember the one lesson in class when
we looked at the bust and the Don Quixote painting. Shields told us that the Don Quixote
painting was done by his fifth grade cousin, when in reality it was painted by a famous artist.
He told us the bust was a very famous sculpture, when it reality it was mass produced in a
factory. This lesson we had relates to my experience at the museum very closely. Some of the
pieces that we saw looked like they were done by my fifth grade cousin, when in reality they
were done by well-known artists. I think that we all have a stigma on what high-end art is
supposed to look like, and that lesson from Mr. Shields combined with my experience at the
museum have broken that stigma for myself.

1. 8) What was your personal reaction to this experience? Would you enjoy attending this type of
event again? Why or why not? {Minimum 100 words}
I loved going to the art museum. I went with some friends and I don’t think I would ever go with
friends again. I don’t think that my friends enjoyed it as much as I did and so I was worried about
them not liking the art and museum as much I did. So I feel like this is more of a personal thing for
me to go and have some quiet time to myself. It was very interesting to see each artist’s reasoning
behind their art pieces and I loved stopping to admire them all and to learn the history of them.
Some pieces I looked at more because they intrigued me more. Overall, I would do this again, but
by myself for sure!

As always remember that I want to see reflective thinking on your part. Show me you are aware of
your limitations, your biases, etc. Show me that you are thinking about your own responses and
why you respond the way you do.

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