Art

Today I went to the Sydney National Art gallery place and the Museum of Contemporary Art once again with school. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think art these days is completely different. I’m going to assume you’ve all already realised this is a fact anyway. Some works, to me, don’t even seem like art. They appear to be a pile of nothing.

I really like a lot of the old paintings from around the 1800’s. Those were beautiful. These days, great artworks are few and far between. Though some are very different, I really seem to enjoy certain installations.

For instance, today at the Museum of Contemporary Art, there was one installation which striked my fancy. You walked through a curtain into a room which was dimly lit. Jimi Hendrix was playing and slides of him were being projected onto all the walls. There were large, fancy hammocks strewn across the room. The lazy atmosphere flew throughout you and created a senseless feeling. For ages, I lay there with my girlfriend, the hammock rocking slightly. We were one with the artwork.

At the National Art Gallery, there was one installation also which I liked a lot. It was a dark room, illumintated slightly by black lights. There were white strings which glowed blue (due to the black lights) around the room arranged in a grid like pattern which occasionally moved from side to side.  Now that was awesome. It felt like I was in some computer or a dream.

It’s hard to find good modern art at times, but these two installations caught my attention.

Bye for now.