University of Art Museum Italian baroque event

            Visiting the Nevada Museum is a must during their Italian baroque exhibition is a MUST for any art enthusiast. The pieces on exhibition range in color and technique. I was immediately sucked into the paintings. Now, I don’t know much about the Baroque period, but the usage of color and shadow really helped make the painting feel alive. There were many pieces to choose from but one of my favorites was the piece entitled, “Harlequin and his Lady.” Although the piece consists of oil on canvas, I couldn’t help but feel as if there was so much more medias involved. The piece is fun and playful and I was able to really lose myself in it, imagining a fun weekend afternoon at the circus. Although our class revolved around digital media, we were also able to mix it up with classical pieces. As many of our past readings have articulated, one shouldn’t forget where art started and how it has continuously changed throughout time. I would love to take the above piece and turn it into a GIF. With the knowledge I have gained over the semester, I hope to do that over the summer. The exhibition of course held many religion based paintings.  The motions captured throughout the pieces and the dramatization clearly capture the baroque period of art. I always imagined that old timey art works would be dark and dreary. This is another reason why I so thoroughly enjoyed “Harlequin and his Lady” it broke all of my previous assumptions about classic art pieces. I hope that the Nevada Museum of art continues to showcase bigger exhibitions of classic art pieces. This Baroque collection has inspired me to work on movement and expressions in my own work because at times I feel that my characters become flat and always seem to remain in the same positions. Some of these baroque pieces showed such exaggerations of human expressions that they were at times almost comical. Besides the paintings, the museum of art also showcased some classic sculptures from the Italian baroque period. The sculptures were so amazing and mind boggling. As someone who has tried to create sculptures I cannot even begin to fathom how some of the pieces were made. At the end of my day, I left the museum with more information on the Baroque Period and a mind full of inspiration.