That's me, Jon Guenther out in front of the Cantor Art Museum. This was my first trip ever to the Cantor Museum, so I really wasn't sure what I should expect. Upon entering the museum I was taken back by the high ceilings and the balconeys above you. It gave me a feelings of a large open, inviting space. After walking through a few doorways I found myself in an Area dedicated to the Stanford Family. This area was full of artifacts from the Stanford family as well as damily paintings. To make a long story short I really did enjoy this visit to the museum. I don't think I would have appreciated it as much if I wasn't in this art class. I found myself walking around looking at pictures and sculptures in a new light, reading the info to see materials used and date. That made it fun for me.
This was a piece of work that I saw in the museum that reminded me of some of the work we had been reading about for class. This is a bronze sculpture called "amazon breaking a savage horse." This sculpture clearly is a man trying to tame a wild horse. You can really see the emotion of the piece by the way the masn body is positioned on the horse, as well as the horse itself. You can see that the horse is fighting by the way it is on its hind legs trying to buck off the man. The plaque next to this work spoke of the Romanticism in the sculpture. That is the exact same thought I had when I saw the sculpture. It reminded me of the Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius that we read about in chapter 6.
That's me, Jon Guenther out in front of the Cantor Art Museum. This was my first trip ever to the Cantor Museum, so I really wasn't sure what I should expect. Upon entering the museum I was taken back by the high ceilings and the balconeys above you. It gave me a feelings of a large open, inviting space. After walking through a few doorways I found myself in an Area dedicated to the Stanford Family. This area was full of artifacts from the Stanford family as well as damily paintings. To make a long story short I really did enjoy this visit to the museum. I don't think I would have appreciated it as much if I wasn't in this art class. I found myself walking around looking at pictures and sculptures in a new light, reading the info to see materials used and date. That made it fun for me.
This was a piece of work that I saw in the museum that reminded me of some of the work we had been reading about for class. This is a bronze sculpture called "amazon breaking a savage horse." This sculpture clearly is a man trying to tame a wild horse. You can really see the emotion of the piece by the way the masn body is positioned on the horse, as well as the horse itself. You can see that the horse is fighting by the way it is on its hind legs trying to buck off the man. The plaque next to this work spoke of the Romanticism in the sculpture. That is the exact same thought I had when I saw the sculpture. It reminded me of the Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius that we read about in chapter 6.
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