Norton Museum 2

The other part of the museum that I want to comment on are the other exhibits. The first of which, is the Chihuly. When I first went to the museum when I was about 13 there was a huge glass sculpture hanging from the ceiling and resting on the floor in the center of the museum, however since then it has been taken down. The other Chihuly sculpture is still there, it is...well I can try to describe it, it is a ton of glass shells, fishes, sea creatures, and sea life all made out of glass. each one hand blown. the lighting for it comes from above it so the figures and such can be seen better, and in the room that this is in there are bench that one can lay on so they can look up and feel like they are underwater. also the way the room is setup is so that the shades dim the natural light, and there is a waterfall outside the windows to really give the sense that you are underwater.

The other exhibits that I saw were students photos from the high schools that were nearby, a contemporary art exhibit featuring Andy Warhol, the photos from the train when RFK died, and tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna. The students photos were astounding and very involved. One of the photos was someones friend had her pet snake on her arms and shoulders. The contemporary art was less than impressive, only because I like more intricate things than CAMPBELLS SOUP! The tapestries were interesting, I am not a fan of that type of art, but there was a video showing how a tapestry is made, which gave me a great more appreciation for the art.

Norton Museum 1

While in Florida I went to the Norton museum with my mom and grandma. I saw the Avedon Fashion photography exhibit, which was not all that impressive. the Photos are nice, but they do nothing to really keep me interested. All of the shots were setup in chronological order, which didn't really help because the way the photos were taken didn't change until the very end when Richard Avedon started using color and computers. The photos seemed to be more about the body and its pose rather than the clothes that were on them. Since I am not legally allowed to take photos of his work, which I didn't realize until a security guard said so, i cannot put his photos on this post. However I can give a link, cause that is not plagiarizing or doing anything wrong, right?

http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Current/AvedonFashion19442000/tabid/414/Default.aspx

What I also saw when I was at the Norton museum was a bunch of truly inspirational quotes from artists. Here are some:

" Art is a habit forming drug" - Marcel Duchamp

" Art is one creative flow upward...." - Alexander Archipenko

" To be an artist is to believe in life." - Henry Moore

" Color is my daylong obsession and torment." - Claude Monet

" Do not finish your work too much." - Paul Gauguin

" If I think, everything is lost." - Paul Cezanne (my favourite artist....NOT! cause of the project I had to do on him in middle school).

" ...the highest style has the least of common nature." - Joshua Reynolds

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." - Michelangelo ( The exact opposite of what Cezanne said).

There are many more in the museum, but I won't list them all.