Even though I have lived in New York for almost four years now, I had never been to the Guggenheim. I was not sure what to expect. The first thing that surprised me was the architecture: what an ingenious idea to spiral through worlds of art.
This colors and textures of this piece really stood out to me. Gold leaf is an extremely delicate material. When manipulated like this and combined with fabric and glue, it feels sharp and sturdy.
This piece reminded me of a song map. The varying lengths of pieces of paper could represent note duration. The large, dark blobs could be a low rumble that gets louder the larger the blob gets. It seems so simple and not what I would have called a collage a month ago.
I was originally drawn to this piece because it looks like a gun. I thought the small explosions of color represented the pain, fear, and adrenaline that comes from weapons.
These are some pieces that I felt a connection to that did not get mentioned in my Guggenheim paper. In clockwise motion starting in the upper left hand corner: Houses in Paris by Juan Gris, Game No. 2 by Herbert Ferber, Dancers in Green and Yellow by Edgar Degas, Lion Hunt by Vasily Kandinsky, and Caitlin and I by Zanele Muholi.
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