Artist from My Culture

Artist From my Culture 

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In this presentation, I talked about a talented young girl from Saudi Arabia. Sara is an amazing artist because her art is about changing reality into paintings. 

She uses objects in her artwork as well. I showed some of her best art works in the presentation. I also played a video from a famous Saudi song. In that video she designed the whole place 

MCA field trip

MCA field trip

MCA field trip was unforgettable trip for me. This museum is the best museum I ever been to. It is an amazing museum, I enjoyed visiting every exhibitions especially  the room with the video projects. That was art!!!! It was fascinating to stand in the middle of that room and watch the place moving. I also liked the gift shop, they have a unique stuff. I took an amazing pictures in the MCA museum. It is a great place to take photos. 

My favorite exhibition in the museum is this  :

These pictures are showing a runaway posters. These posters is from the 19s. When slaves run, their owners would do this posters to track them. It is a painful picture. 

AIC Webhunt

AIC Web hunt

I thought it will be hard doing this project, but it turned up to be fun and easy. The website was well organized. I start creating  online gallery after I looked around the website. I choose arts from different collection such as, African, American, Asian, modern and photography.  The website has over 33.000 artwork and 15 collection. This is amazing because it was really easy to look for anything. 

For my collection I chose 10 artwork that I like the most. I wish if I could add more.

Here is the like for my collection: 

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/my/my-collection/31117

This is one of the artworks I chose :

Smart Museum of art (Team Project)

Smart Museum of art

I went to the smart museum of art with my classmates to do the team project two weeks ago. The museum was really far, but when I went there it turned up to be an amazing museum. I fact, it is one of the most beautiful museums I ever been too. The campus was really big and amazing. Te museum also was well organized and it had a lot of modern art works. I fell in love with a couple of art works in the museum. It was a great experience. I enjoyed going there and I would visit it again. 

I was amazed by this art works.

Artist Project II: Girl with the pearl earring.

For the artist project I chose "Girl with the pearl earring" movie. I chose it because I saw it before and because I like Scarlett Johansson. The movie is talking about a young beautiful maid called Griet, she works at a famous artist house called Johannes Varmeer. They fall in love with each other and the artist make her became his assistant. Then Johannes Varmeerasks her to be the model of his painting. The painting is Girl with the pearl earring. This painting is one of the most famous paintings now.  I really enjoy watching this movie. It is full with art and really good story.

The Art Institute of Chicago Reflection

The art institute of Chicago is one of the most famous museums. Since I came to Chicago I always heard good things about it, but I never got the chance to go there. Unfortunately, I was absent in the day my class went there,but I went there two days ago. My experience there was unforgettable. I saw a lot of Van Gogh art works. His work is amazing. There were a whole exhibit for his art works. The museum had an Asian/Himalayan exhibit which was beautiful as well. I also, saw the art work that my classmates discuss in our class last Wednesday. I finally understand why Omar was so amazed by it. It is amazing. I went there alone so I did not discuss anything. 

My favorite work.

I love the little details in this art work. 

The Art of Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis

This was my second time at Chicago Cultural Center, but this time we went to see Norman Lewis artworks. We saw more than 100 artworks for him. Norman Lewis is the innovator of abstract expressionism. What's so unique about Lewis is that he likes to use powerful live color palette and characteristic style. Since 20th century people appreciated Norman works. Norman faces in his work on the barrier of racism because he is black. Norman is politically-conscious activist. 

I was amazed by some of his artwork, specially the three black paintings.

Visit to the National Museum of Mexican Art

National Museum of Mexican Art

Our visit to the National Museum of Mexican Art was really interesting. It was the first time I know about the dead day in Mexico, I learned so much information about the Mexican culture from their art. It is really interesting that they celebrate death. I found this museum unique and different from any  museum I ever visited. There were three exhibits in the museum. there were three exhibits, they have different context and different subject-matter.

In the Mexican Identity exhibit  Journey of the soul. the exhibit was full with emotions and I found it very dark and unique. it shows the Mexican identity and their believes. I was captured by some paintings in this exhibit. such as Day of Offerings.  It is such an interesting culture to learn about.

The second exhibit was my favorite, it is dedicated to the victims of the pulse tragedy in Orlando FL, and to Mr. Alejandro Mondragon, an important sugar skull maker. I think this exhibit has a great purpose, it remind people of some great people or victims who passed away. 

The last exhibit is Maquila Blues. This exhibit had a lot of paintings for a Mexican artist called, Oscar Moya. Oscar Moya in 1971 crossed the border. In his painting he shows the same subject he experienced. He shows how he came poor and tired to make his dreams came true in America.

One artwork that coughs my attention is this amazing art work. What I like the most about this art work is that I can see three different pictures in it. Each one is different and unique.I think who ever created it most be very creative and talented. The picture from the side is my favorite. Such an amazing art work. What I noticed is that the colors are similar in each picture. The artist used the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. 

The Cultural Center tour Reflection.

This was my first time at the culture center in Chicago. Actually I never heard of it before. Visiting the culture center was very interesting because I saw some amazing art works, and I visit unforgettable exhibits . There were so many exhibits, and I can not remember all of it, but there were some beautiful exhibits that grabbed my attention.

Spectacular Vernacular by Parsons & Charlesworth, Chicago rooms in the second floor, this exhibit is my favorite. I so some of the best arts that I ever seen. There were three rooms in this exhibits, each one was different and unique in it's own way. this exhibit had a lot of mixed design art. Also, there were a lot of fiction in some of the art works there. some had many object in one art work. It was amazing.

The Michigan Galleries in the first floor. This exhibit has three expositions, Krista Franklin "Quest for The Marvelous," Laura Davis "Jewelry for My Mother and Other Microaggressions" and Tom Denlinger "Ektstatic Edgewater." Most of the art in this exhibit was collages.

Garland gallery,  "35.000 Pillow" project by Diaz Lewis's." This is a great project that support  and response to immigrants and custom enforcement. It was so much fun the pillow project. Shafi and I made a pillow after the class was over. 

I fell in love with this art work. It is beautiful !!!!!!!
The way all of this objects brought together is amazing.

Here are some pictures from our great tour to the cultural center.

Public Art Tour Project

For this project, I went to downtown Chicago and I chose the best art works I saw there.

It is known that Chicago is full with fine art. There were a lot of great art works, but these are my favorite. I started to prepare and I opened the art guild, but It did not open with me, so I started to walk around and I took pictures with the art works I found in the street.

Well, I went at night, so it is kind of dark in some picture. I was raining and the streets were empty.

So it did not took me long. This project was very interesting. I discovered amazing places in downtown that I never been to before. Now, I am paying more attention to art around me.It was the first since I came to Chicago that I see all of this amazing art works all around this beautiful city.

Here are the art works that grabbed my attention the most: