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                                                         trip to noguchi museum 

             We visited the noguchi museum in queens. it was a wonderful trip and was a great deal different than the normal museums we usually visit. Noguchi had a Japanese father and an American mother. Noguchi was a gifted person from childhood because he had a fascinating life from the start. The creativity was in the family as the father was a poet. Many of his artworks are weirdly impressive because I have never seen anything like that. Especially, the stone-salt sculptures, it would have been very hard to get those precise cuts as the material was heavy and dense when we felt it. the museum is also special as to it was the only museum who is for a single artist and was curated by them in their life, although it was a one artist museum but they were also doing a special tom sachs “tea ceremony”. Tom sachs is also similar to noguchi as both like to mix cultures, like the Japanese and western the blending of cultures is what makes both of their works unique and beautiful. Akari light sculptures, are the history and initialization of the paper lanterns in US. He brought the traditional lantern sculptures and created shapes and introduced the west to them. Although the inspiration is taken from Japanese tradition, but the shapes and the structuring of the lanterns is purely Noguchi’s own. The lanterns are an everyday lamp, for example floor lamps, ceiling lamps, or just for decoration purposes. They are in different shapes and sizes, geometric shapes like triangles, rectangles, circles, rhombuses. Some of them are even made like lamps in shape, and they can be compressed as well. A good example of how Noguchi just didn’t use his two cultures, and heritage to create his work but also supported the idea of a modern day life. They are really light and fragile.

Tom sachs and noguchi have a lot in common but the lanterns are a special blend of Japanese heritage, and a western twist. The lanterns are delicate, beautiful, and a nice way of decoration and lighting up a corner of your house. Tom sachs recreated the lanterns with his own touch rather than keeping it simple like noguchi, he added a special message to them like about the NASA. NASA is the best funded craft industry in our solar system. Command Service Module Lamp combines the work of two artists (Noguchi and Sachs) for whom cottage-industrial design, seat-of-the-pants engineering, and the co-option of mass producing systems for art `making are important techniques. The ink on Sach’s akari is mostly paper, bamboo, metal, and electrical components. Thus, the two artists tried to blend two cultures, where noguchi tries to give art and modern life a similar way, their sachs when collaborated with noguchi he used one of noguchi’s most representational piece of work to honor an organization which both the artists might have supported. There is not a huge difference between tom Sach’s and noguchi’s work the only difference is that sach’s went one step further in experimentation and he drew a spaceship on the lantern, thus naming it he “command service module lamp”.

Lastly I really enjoyed viewing the park which had all these different huge life size pieces in it. especially the one with bumpers and cars really intrigued me. I just loved the way they put together all those different stickers on the car e.g. a few of them said honk if you love, just because, vote for a fragile etc. the stickers made no sense and so didn’t the car in the middle of no where but the best part was that it all made no sense but yet they used recyclable stuff like stickers and a car which would have been in some trash yard to make a great piece of artwork.