Topic #6 The Art Universe and Miami Art Week

Enjoying some ginger spiced pineapple juice at the Casa Lin during Art Basal weekend. Amazing artwork, food, people, and atmosphere.

Morikami Museum Visit

        The Morikami Museum was so beautiful. I remember very little about my first visit when I was about 5 years old and it was such a refreshment and it was like seeing the garden for the first time again. The weather was crisp. The garden was peaceful and calm. We got there right when they opened so there wasn't a lot of visitors which made the garden almost a private experience. The landscaping and the weather at the time made me feel like I time traveled to Japan in a split second. Everything was just perfect!

FIU Frost Museum

Lewis Hine's "Little spinner in mill" shows a young girl in a mill factory. By observing the piece, you can see the mess on the floor and you can depict that the girl was working in poor working conditions and how dangerously close she is to the machines. You can even see that her shirt is stained and worn out from her working in the factory and by the look on her face I wouldn't guess that this was a dream job of hers.

The Wolfsonian-FIU,

         

          At the Wolfsonian, out of all the amazing pieces that I saw, there was one piece that really stood out to me. This oil painting was made by Dutch artist, Harald Rudyard Engman in 1941. His subject was an Anti-Nazism , Humor/Satire , Figurative piece and it is about Engman's commentary on the negative aspects of Nazi occupation of Denmark during WWII. The painting has a human pyramid made of different time frames and on left shows Denmark in the past and on the right shows Denmark in the present during WW II.

Here is Ethel Magafan's

Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.

This piece is depicting the building of bulwarks by

slaves piling up cotton bales.