Art 100 museum essay
My Visit to the Torpedo Factory
Cherie Diggs
Art Appreciation- Art 100
Adam Veil
November 21, 2014
I decided to do my museum visit essay paper on the Torpedo Factory Art Center. I chose this particular museum because it’s located in Old Town Alexandria about ten minutes from my house. So when I dropped my son off for school I hopped on the bus and went there early Friday morning. During my visit to the Torpedo Factory Art Center on November 21, 2014 I got to see many different forms of art and although this museum isn’t as big as the National Smithsonian
Museum it still had lots of wonderful art displays to share from various artists many of them unknown but very talented. There were lots of artistic mediums used liked acrylic paintings, oil pastels on mat boards, etchings, drawings, watercolors, lithograph, etc. The ones I seemed to gravitate to the most were the oil paintings. I’m interested in the oil paintings the most because there isn’t one kind of oil painting, there are some called monotypes, plein air and just oil and water to name a few. While on my visit I came across many artists who used this medium and the various types but there were three particular artists that stood out to me because of the way they either blended colors , used the world as their inspiration or just painted a story that you instantly were drawn to when you saw it. Because of those three reasons I chose Betsy Anderson, Margaret Cerutti and Marietje
Chamberlain.
The first artist I chose was Betsy Anderson because of all the bright colors and tranquil imagines that the paintings themselves provoke. The painting is Mediterranean Waters 6 it’s a modernized style of painting that is more 21st century that is a lot of bright colors and lines that when put together gives you a visual of mountains, a big large mass of water and a beautifully lit sky with other hills and valleys all around. It really doesn’t fit into a particular art movement but
Cherie Diggs
Art Appreciation- Art 100
Adam Veil
November 21, 2014
I decided to do my museum visit essay paper on the Torpedo Factory Art Center. I chose this particular museum because it’s located in Old Town Alexandria about ten minutes from my house. So when I dropped my son off for school I hopped on the bus and went there early Friday morning. During my visit to the Torpedo Factory Art Center on November 21, 2014 I got to see many different forms of art and although this museum isn’t as big as the National Smithsonian
Museum it still had lots of wonderful art displays to share from various artists many of them unknown but very talented. There were lots of artistic mediums used liked acrylic paintings, oil pastels on mat boards, etchings, drawings, watercolors, lithograph, etc. The ones I seemed to gravitate to the most were the oil paintings. I’m interested in the oil paintings the most because there isn’t one kind of oil painting, there are some called monotypes, plein air and just oil and water to name a few. While on my visit I came across many artists who used this medium and the various types but there were three particular artists that stood out to me because of the way they either blended colors , used the world as their inspiration or just painted a story that you instantly were drawn to when you saw it. Because of those three reasons I chose Betsy Anderson, Margaret Cerutti and Marietje
Chamberlain.
The first artist I chose was Betsy Anderson because of all the bright colors and tranquil imagines that the paintings themselves provoke. The painting is Mediterranean Waters 6 it’s a modernized style of painting that is more 21st century that is a lot of bright colors and lines that when put together gives you a visual of mountains, a big large mass of water and a beautifully lit sky with other hills and valleys all around. It really doesn’t fit into a particular art movement but