If you wrote about the wrong Stella painting, please post your description of a different painting in the Measure of Time exhibit at BAM. The museum is closed Monday and Tuesday so you can have until Friday to make up the assignment.
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“Night,” the painting by Max Weber is an array of dark colors mixed together with touches of light blue and white. The painting is divided up into many different shapes, giving a jagged look as well as depth to the image. The different shades of brown appear to have no particular order of use, and these colors also add to the depth of the shapes. There are eyelash looking items painted in the image that almost make the upper right corner look like a part of a face. There is also the eyelash item painted at the top of the painting as well as near the center of the painting. The blues and whites that cover parts of the painting almost look like a fog over the different shades of night.
"Shadow" by Jim Campbell is an amazing work that combines science and art. Encased in a foggy plastic box is a small, brass colored figurine that looks like a Buddhist statue. Each corner of the box has small lights that illuminate the box in the poorly lit room. Its placement in the museum makes it stand out, since it is on a black pedestal with nothing around it. It catches your eye and intrigues you, but as you get closer to it, the image fades. And like a cruel joke, it vanishes behind the increasingly opaque glass. This causes you to feel even more puzzled and as you take a step back, you see the image reappear. Then rushing forward as you hope to fool the glass and look closer at the statue, it disappears again. This installation is amazing yet frustrating at the same time, because no matter what you do, you will never be able to see the statue closely.
Joseph Stella's painting, "Bridge," uses a limited palette of blues, greens, dark browns, and whites. Together this combination creates a very cold and metallic feel. Along the bottom of the painting, there are four circles with radial gradients equally spaced. Moving upwards from the bottom, the entire painting is dominated by a pair of arches which appear to be a bridge. To depict this bridge, he uses a dark brown color, much like that of a silhouette, suggesting that this is a nighttime scene. In the background, tall white rectangular-prism forms are drawn in and then painted over, but the pencil lines can still be seen. Slightly above the center of the painting, there is another circle with a color gradient. But this time the center column of the pair of arches divides the circle into two symmetrical halves. In the foreground, four bold white lines swoop towards the center. Within the the lines, brown is delicately painted into them, giving these lines a round tubular form. Another pair of these lines appear in the background, but are not as obvious. Also, within the arches there are a series of vertical black lines. They all start from the bottom but not all of them make it to the top.
Jackson Pollock's "Number 6" looks like just a bunch of splashes of paint. There is orange, blue, and white paint all criss-crossed but making it look somewhat like a flaming sphere or rotating galaxy. It could also portray a nasty hairball that was caught in a cat's throat, but the elipses make it seem like a some sort of solar system or something of the sort from outer space.
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