Denver Art Museum Report

Denver Art Museum Visit Visiting the Denver Art Museum for the first time can be something of clouded experienced. There is almost too much for one day for your mind to overcome; the architect, surrounding area and, of course, the many wondrous works of art can overwhelm any first-timer. Although originally dating back all the way to 1948, the Denver Art Museum, as well as the surrounding Civic Center buildings have dramatically changed and become a work of art themselves. As anyone is driving into the city, the first thing noticed would have to be the sky scrapers whose tops adorn the sky, but as they grow closer and closer to the Civic Center the buildings’ sizes begin to fade into normality, until they arrive at the State Capitol
The oil painting is a square canvas measuring roughly six feet in each direction and was finished in 1994. I was immediately drawn to this piece because this was the first piece seen as I attempted to make the journey to the Ponti Building through the second floor section of Western American Art. It appears to be many dark buffalo scattered across a landscape of blurred white emptiness, and it isn’t until you get much closer that I realized they were not buffalo at all, but just representational paint spots. This piece of abstract expressionism is a great combination of both an expressive background and representational form of painting. My overall impression of the piece was very pleasing. I like a piece that two people can look at and see a different painting. My mother and I saw completely different animals, whether that is our personal mistake or the interpretation of everyone. The reason for choosing this piece was the power it had to grab my attention regardless of color, and my reason for choosing the next piece from the museum I chose to mention was just the
Forsman comprised his series of roughly eighteen-inch rectangle, black and white landscape photographs using a repetition of elements. His dog appears in every photograph. The dog is not always the subject matter, if it ever actually is, but it is a noticed element that makes the statement of normalcy and relation to the people who view them. The leaves were noticed in the photograph because these were the leaves of a Buckeye tree; a tree well known and noted in the State of Ohio. The photograph was taken south of Cleveland, Ohio in 2005. I would not have chosen this photograph had it not contained those leaves because there were far greater subject matter photographs to choose from, but my hometown got the best of