HIRSCHHORN MUSEUM 

The Age of Enlightenment---Antoine Lavoisier

This art caught my immediate intention due to many elements in one piece of art. The scientist, and colonist is wearing a colorful African print shirt to reflect the colonization of some West African countries by European, the man had no head, and was sitting

on a wheel chair holding an ink pen. Along on the table were a compass, mirror, and interesting items that made the whole art a good looking depiction of historical event.

Display Stand with Madonnas, (1987-1989)

This art piece in aluminum I believe depicted the Virgin Mary duplication in dozen and dozen to create a tall tour of her in prayer posture. The gigantic art is painted in bright yellow, and has fine smooth feel to it. It captures my intention

because of its beauty, uniqueness, and spiritual piece. Any religious person is likely to adore it as you can place it inside any corner of the house.

Pretty Discreet, 2004

This bridge looking wood wall is an impressive art with a Big muscular John Stud action figure climbing the wall of the

art. It was a 1/5 side painted in pink and the rest in bright yellow wood hue. It is a fun art work that I can see myself put in my dining room or somewhere in a house to give an entire room an incredible fun and arty feel. It’s unique and pure art work.

Culture and Media in Art

The art works displayed at the Hirschhorn is a depiction of our culture in a way that the artists get inspired and influence by the world around them. Whether it’s in a personal level, political, or cultural, their work is drawn from a side effect of what affects them directly or indirectly. Through their work are usually ways to express philosophically how they feel, or see the world; the artist use the media as a platform to be the voice of the voiceless in a society. It could convey positive, negative, or revolutionary message. The Age of Enlightenment by Antoine Lavoisier does a great good to come across its point. It shows that the explorer, who is most generally a westerner, once lived in African soil, which they lived on for about a time, to explore and find out the wealth and prepare master plan on how to colonize those people, and strip all of their wealth. The wheel chair may have to do with the uncertainty, and risk those explorers took when they were adventurous to invade in news land. In most cases it was never easy as they could be killed or attacked, so they were taking huge risk as a kid walking under old mines ground where a war explosive can blow any given time.

Gift Shop

The gift shop has some an incredible sale among which was fine jewelry by different entrepreneurs. The sets were real awesome and fun jewelry made out plastic, zinc, or wood material. They had beautiful bag pack, T-Shirts for kids, women, and men with the same logo on them that were also imprinted in the gigantic walls on the entrance floor. The shop sold books of artist on how to understand some particular arts, gummy huge key holders, fun sunglasses, coffee mugs in camera shapes. Few of the thing I would definitely change is to have a room to sell fine miniature sculpture statuses because even though today arts comes in several shape and form, however, when you here about art, the first thing that comes to mind is either painting, or some sort of wood sculpted statue, and the gift shop did not carry none of that. Another suggestion I have is to add mud clay to their gift shop. As an art center you may want to sell those items to not only make profit, but also urge visitors to create their own little art as they take seats in resting areas while still at the museum, or once they get home.