Blog Post #8

Ricardo Castro

Art

06/03/14

The galleries I saw on our trip were phenomenal. I enjoyed all of them, but two of them really stuck out to me. One was an installation of a chocolate factory from Colombia by Oscar Murillo. This installation was one of my favorites, because not only was there free delicious chocolate, but there were real workers working in the back! Peeping through the shelves you could see workers in the back wrapping up the chocolate in their full body suits. I found this to be unique and interesting for an art gallery it literally brought the piece to life. However my number one favorite piece of art was “Wolfbat Leopard Snake” by Dennis McNett. The way McNett used his creativity to create this piece of art really makes me enjoy art even more. The mixture of  grayish looking scales and a cool bright blue on the stomach of the beasts and its eyes really captures my eyes. Along side the warm pink long tongue that falls down its mouth, this piece of art captivated me enough to want to get a tattoo of it. 

There were other pieces of art such as this type of art where if you moved it seemed as if the piece of art would move with you. Patrick Hughes, the creator of these pieces of art, really captures the cool blue colors of the ocean and the sky as he adds the orange warm colored buildings that seem to be on top of the water. With the effect of it moving with you it really brings life to the artwork. One really stuck out to me, which was a piece where from the front it looked like a cut up stomach with blood dripping down from the bottom. However when I walked past it there was a handle, so I was able to conclude that it was a teacup. This piece was by Sterling Ruby and ironically named “The Cup.” This piece from the angle I was looking at it made it seem very gory and unpleasant to look at, like a cup full of blood.