Mod 11.2

Mod 11.2
POST 2
GALLERY TOUR
GALLERY: 
1. Skagens Museum (Denmark)
3. After hours of going through beautiful museums and paintings, I finally chose this one. Skagens offers the atmosphere I most want to visit.

“WALK THROUGH” 
1. Natural sunshine, through windows and skylights.
2. White walls.
3. White walls, white airy curtains, and lightly stained caramel hardwood. It’s a warm place.
4. Movement is not restrictive. Central, focused. 

ARTWORK(S)
1. Artworks are staggered but there are many to a wall.
2. Uniformed in mostly all golden frames.
3. Pigments differ from work to work.
4. Frames are gilded and fanciful.
5. Works are numbered and texts are posted in black in specific, blank sections of the walls.
6. Layout varies, but most works are close together. Not more than a foot or a few feet apart. 

3 CHOSEN WORKS FOR DISCUSSION
  1. Anna Archer
  2. Interior. Brondum’s Annex
  3. Oil on Wood
  4. 1917
  5. 38 x 45 centimeters
  7. I love the colors offered here. Anything that represents sunlight has beauty to me.
  8. Interior of a sunlit study 
  9. Structural, square but soft form
  10. It reminds me of my old room. Or someplace in Italy. Or a girl named Roscoe, her room looks like this. It makes me think of the last look one gives their old room on moving day, taking in all the emptiness and memories one last time before going to the new place. 
  11. I believe this is a celebration of a once used and loved space. A memory of a place and moment that Anna doesn't want to forget about.
  1. Marie Kroyer
  2. Double Portrait of Marie and P.S. Kroyer. The couple have portrayed one another
  3. Oil on Canvas 
  4. 1890
  5. 18.5 x 15 cm
  7. I love the visual difference in stylistic choice here!
  8. A couple
  9. COmbatting between loose and realistic
  10. It reminds me of American Gothic by Grant Wood. I can see that both partners of this couple are individual artists. I can imagine their whimsical game of collaboration; invision them inspired, planning, sitting for, painting and in awe when viewing their final work, together. 
  11. I don’t think there is a political message. More of a work that was driven by sentiment. Created and remembered with love. It’s emotionally powerful.
  1. Peter Severin Kroyer
  2. In Front of Christoffer’s house. A midsummer evening, Skagen
  3. Not Provided (Oil?)
  4. 1885
  5. Not Provided
  7. I am drawn to this scene like a moth to a flame. Not only are the natural hues vibrant and beautiful, but the conversation looks gregarious and magnanimous. I want to join them.
  8. Village neighbors meeting in the back doorway at golden hour.
  9. Soft and light. Spatial depth.
  10. It reminds me of my time in ireland. We had a cabin on the shore in early March. The days were rainy but the nights were wam, like this. The moon was clear over the water, and the sanddunes had grass like this.
  11. I think this is a moment in time between people who don't really have to know each other well to be bonded and hold care and trust for each other. They are neighbors, amicable and happy to see each other. Meeting by the backstep at sundown for a quiet chat. I think the artist wanted to reflect on the connection between people who live in the same place. A study of community, acquaintance-friends. 
FINAL Q

  1. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Professor Tabone, you have sent us on a journey. I just hope my home-bound fellow classmates were able to enjoy the tours as much as I did. I feel like I haven’t been in touch with art, since this all began. With creation and introspection. I had lost that. I had missed it. I've been so focused on the world and having to work and continuing school and making masks and morality of those I love. This has been a gift. These tours, though virtual, have been healing. I feel like I’m in upton hall again, admiring work with others. These paintings reflect the joys of little things, at least to me. That’s so important, especially right now. The little things. THANK YOU!

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