Brooklyn Museum

Head from Sphinx

I always find it interesting that statues that were placed outside in the past have eroded noses, and that particular place comes off before anything else. As well as the eyes sometimes, the most fragile part of the body. This piece in particular was called the Female Sphinx and I thought it was lovely because it was of course a woman and she has no eyes. Something about her just drew me, and her having no eyes made her even more gorgeous. She relates to the small period where we focused on Egyptian art, the information on her said her eyes were “pried out” which speaks to the fact of European colonizers ruining some artifacts for trophies. 

Francis Guy

Winter Scene in Brooklyn

There’s a few copies of this piece and I’ve only ever seen copied images of this, and seeing it in person was such an experience compared to seeing printed versions. The awesome thing about this piece is that it is on Fulton Street in Brooklyn not far from the current waterfront and it’s amazing how much things can change in one generation, and how people can experience and see it all. 

Elektra KB 

This was a piece in the feminist gallery, and it read “I was never yours”. The image included a large female character above a group of KKK members holding a flag. I feel like this relates to slavery in the sense that women were sexually abused brutally, as well as black women were forbidden trophies during the era of the KKK. This relates to the more modern, contemporary art portion of our class.