Intro To Art

Blog Post #5

The sculpture that I found very interesting was located in the M-building and in the hallway of the flags. The sculpture is a representational work of art. The technique of the sculpture is an assembled and additive process. It is also a cast sculpture it’s a hallow metal and has an assembled piece attached to the cast. The sculpture also has very visible detailed features on the sculpture and very visible that they also used their fingers in order to achieve those features. The sculpture that I chose and that captured my attention was a train door which one of my classmates noticed what it was because I didn’t notice at the beginning. That just shows us that we all view art and the world as well in different perspectives. The main sculpture was a crowd of people in the middle of the train door. You can really see how the crowd is getting on or going out of the train. It reminds me of the morning and afternoon rush in the subways every day of the week. There were faces on one side and on the other you only saw the back of most of the people but one or two faces on the opposite side of the others. The shape of the sculpture on the section of the crowd was of an organic shape and the actual geometric shape of the door that is also part of the sculpture. The sculpture also has different tones of light and dark along the organic shape of the crowd. The only thing that I couldn’t decide was which is the front and the back of the sculpture. I was also mesmerized because the sculptor/ artist really captured the expression of the people riding the subway. Many get irritated and upset and just want to get on the train and get to where ever they need to go.  The sculpture really captured a vivid reality that many New Yorkers live every day traveling in the MTA.