Ima Experience
Korey Rogan
4/22/13
Art Appreciation
IMA Project Write-up
As I entered the Indianapolis Museum of Art I was amazed by the installation art in the main area. The first thing you see when you walk in pass the glass doors is Spencer Finch’s installation art, Following Nature, dangling from the ceiling. The work is so beautiful because it’s a thin piece of glass hanging from a string reflecting light from all different angles. And with the glass windows on the building having colorful, the light reflects colors around the walk-in area. Walking around the museum was a blast. I was interested in the overall structure and design of the building, with the extremely tall glass doors and the massive size of the walls and the height of the ceilings. All of the art work, of course, was wonderful to see. Everywhere I turned there was another work of art catching my eye. The walk-in displays are the pieces that I enjoyed because the majority of them were so big and fascinating. The IMA is also surrounded by a lot of trees and kind of has a forest like environment. As I looked out a glass window from the fourth floor I saw an eagle soaring through the sky. I thought that was an interesting moment during my visit. My experience at the IMA will always be in my memories and is definitely worth going back to. Abstract expressionism, also known as action painting, is a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (action painting). The leading figures were Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The style embraced many individual styles marked in common by freedom of technique, a preference for dramatically large canvases, and a desire to give spontaneous expression to the unconscious mind. Abstract Expressionism was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also put New York City at the center of
4/22/13
Art Appreciation
IMA Project Write-up
As I entered the Indianapolis Museum of Art I was amazed by the installation art in the main area. The first thing you see when you walk in pass the glass doors is Spencer Finch’s installation art, Following Nature, dangling from the ceiling. The work is so beautiful because it’s a thin piece of glass hanging from a string reflecting light from all different angles. And with the glass windows on the building having colorful, the light reflects colors around the walk-in area. Walking around the museum was a blast. I was interested in the overall structure and design of the building, with the extremely tall glass doors and the massive size of the walls and the height of the ceilings. All of the art work, of course, was wonderful to see. Everywhere I turned there was another work of art catching my eye. The walk-in displays are the pieces that I enjoyed because the majority of them were so big and fascinating. The IMA is also surrounded by a lot of trees and kind of has a forest like environment. As I looked out a glass window from the fourth floor I saw an eagle soaring through the sky. I thought that was an interesting moment during my visit. My experience at the IMA will always be in my memories and is definitely worth going back to. Abstract expressionism, also known as action painting, is a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (action painting). The leading figures were Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The style embraced many individual styles marked in common by freedom of technique, a preference for dramatically large canvases, and a desire to give spontaneous expression to the unconscious mind. Abstract Expressionism was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also put New York City at the center of