Art Appreciation Extra Credit

Extra Credit – 500x Museum Visit For the extra credit, I went to the 500x Gallery and witnessed several different art pieces there. The one that happened to cross my mind the most was the "Owl" by Elaine Pawlowicz. This painting intrigued me because it evokes several memories of my childhood that I have recently forgotten. When I was a child I lived in a yellowish orange house surrounded by fields of land which had no plants or resemblance to any type of farm life. It was like a huge desert without the dust or cactus. The one thing that did throw me off was the owl on the dead tree trunk. It reminded me one of my favorite MMOs to play, which was called Final Fantasy XI. The reason why is because in the game there was a legendary shield called the "Aegis" and once you've obtained this shield an owl was always present during the process of working toward it. The one piece that I did not find interesting was the "Dad's Spanish Class" painting by Clayton Hurt. To me, it looked like an elementary student at my job can do the same job if not better. It is like a collage of magazine pictures cut out and glued to a paper then named in Spanish the different parts of the face. At one point, some of the features confused me on the whether it was a male or female. I did not like this piece at all and feel as if an elementary student can easily make it into a museum just by doing what Clayton Hurt created. The one piece that I did not understand was the one below both of the pictures. It resembles butcher paper that was crumbled up into a square and spray painted by black spray paint. To some it could look very interesting but to others it can be just something anyone can do at their homes. When I felt the art work however, it felt metal but did not seem very heavy. It does create this confusion to how it was made therefore, it does leave me a bit interested.