“Brooklyn Museum Reaction”

The Brooklyn museum is a place I have not known it existed. Until I saw it for the first time during Kiddies Carnival, which was held in the same area at the time I did not think much of it until I went back and seen the museum. Being in the museum was a pleasant experience though we ended up doing the trip from the top to the bottom. It started with the odd works by “Sanford Biggers” and his art work called “Lotus” where Biggers has turned a slave ship into something that looks like a dream catcher. To the slaves who were unfortunate enough to be trapped in one of these ships it all maybe a bad dream, but to me I commend Sanford Biggers for turning a sad history into a wonderful art work. Much like the name of the section “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective”, this goes very well with the section and much like the artist who I believe is nuttier than a bag of nuts I think it perfect.

The next section I saw was the “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties”, this was a bit strange to me the name to me seems like mostly modern things but I was sadly mistaken. Though I did manage to find something that caught my eye this strange statue by Harriet Whitney Fishmuth called “Slavonic dance” it reminded me of something in the Olympic Games of old, when it was done in the nude by the Greeks long ago. Also the dance that he looked like he was going reminded me of something my eight year old brother does in his dance class. The last exhibit was “The Latino List” was confusing at first because it was just a place filled with people who happened to be Latino, and then it hit me they are all much achieved people in their own right. So I walked around the room and stumbled on this Latino man named Jose Moreno Hernandez, the reason I stopped was he was astronaut. I did not know there was a Latino astronaut so that is good to know; also someone very close to my heart inspires to be an astronaut.

 Lastly the surprise that we saw was “The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago it was very interesting to see this exhibit for a few reasons the first is the shape of the table, it was in the shape of a triangle normally for a large dinner party it is in the shape of a large circle or a rectangle. The second thing is each person had their own place in the table and they were all unique. It must have taken years to complete and it is very striking.

Stanford Biggers

“Lotus”   2007

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth

“Slavonic dance” modeled in 1921

Jose Moreno Hernandez---- picture

“The Dinner Party”

Judy Chicago