Art Museum Observation Paper

In this paper, I will write my thoughts on the Art Museum where I went to view visual art. I went to the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM). I explain will the venue and its appearance. I will describe using the correct fine arts terms what I saw and felt from the pieces of art that I viewed. I will also give my personal feelings of what I witnessed. The Venue After parking the car in the lot across the street. I first viewed the exterior of the building. I could see the Laugh fest headquarters office in the corner of the building as we walked across Monroe Center Street. We walked to the entrance of the GRAM sitting across Rosa Park Circle in downtown. The building was of Modern design with the stairs going up to doors covered.
Once I entered the building, I could see off to my left the ticket line with a handicap ramp running up the side going up to the lobby. Then a big set of stairs going up to the second floor. You walked up facing the way you came half
As we rounded the corner to enter the elevator. A large painting was on the wall. The painting saturated in color. The hue of red, orange, yellow and blue. It appeared to have two human like figures in it. There was no title and I do not remember the name of the artist. The only thing I remember about it was that it was bright. The vivid hues did bring attention to it but I have no idea of what the message was supposed to be.
Once we reached, the Newcomb exhibit things were a little more subdued. We did have a guide who took us through the pieces of pottery, tapestry, watercolor paintings, and bookplates. Most of these were by Sadie Irvine. One piece we looked at was a watercolor painting of a Cathedral in New Orleans. Sadie used different values of blue hue and shading to give it a depth of field that gave it the look of hazy night. There was a small cross on top of one of the building used as a vanishing