SUMMARY & REFLECTION

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART, VISITING THE PRINT ROOM

I went with my class to the Spencer Museum of Art. We toured the print room, where curators had pulled relevant works of art from the museum’s collection. This print room is a valuable resource to know about not only for this project, but for those in the future. A curator guided us through the series of photographs she had laid out for us, explained the title, setting, and theme. It was great to see the pieces in person instead of on a computer. It got me thinking of a variety of styles and layouts. I was really inspired by the piece by Gordon Matta-Clark called Splitting. The piece was made of joined photographs, creating a skewed and twisted perspective of the environment by lining up lines of light and shadow across the photographs. I also liked the motion displayed in the grid format of the javelin collage by Eadweard Muybridge.