Museum Art Gallery Visit 3

While we were in Williamstown we also went to the MASS MoCA, a small kind of hipster, modern museum hidden in an old building. My mom and I went there just thinking we would check a Museum art gallery visit off the list - little did I know this exhibit would end up being so incredibly helpful. What we didn't know going in was that most of the museum was filled with 3D pieces, leaving me with many take aways.

The first thing that I noticed was that the lighting of the rooms really changed the interpretation of the art pieces. If you look at these photos, you can see that there is some sense of electricity. I feel like if the art gallery people lit the room normally, we would loose that sense of energy. It was almost like the whole room was a art piece itself. It was really a full body experience which I thought was really cool.

Another take away was the use of movement could take a piece from being interesting to downright terrifying. As you can see in the video, there was a table set up with little mundane objects. Alone the piece would have been fine. However, above the table was a robotic bird flying around in circles over your head. It made it feel like you were in some sort of nightmare as the music was also selectively picked to fit the intensity of the piece. It was probably one of my favorite parts of the entire museum as the flying crow almost commanded you to pay attention to it.


My last take away was that deceiving the eye can be one of your most powerful tools. Some of the first art pieces I had seen looked like just normal objects with nothing interesting about them. But then you would read the description and see that the deflated basketball was actually made of glass or that the rubber bands were also made of glass. It was so interesting because the artist got the texture completely right and you would have no idea unless you looked closer.

Another way one artist would trick your eye was by these really interesting drawings. They were drawn on bent glass but it looked like they were just drawn on a normal canvas. I realized that it must take so much talent and patience to do one of those pieces but they were some of my favorite in the gallery.