No Limits: Janet Biggs
October 8, 2011 - January 8, 2012Worlds Apart: Myth & History, Gods & Mortals, Heroes & Hybrids
February 12 - November 20, 2011Realism: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection
November 20, 2010 - December 31, 2011
Jack
The Tampa Museum of Art was so cool; they had one temporary exhibit and two permanent exhibits. The temporary exhibit was all videos with the theme juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is putting together things that don’t seem to go together but have similarity that can be compared and contrasted. One piece had two videos, one projected on top of the screen, the other right below it. The video on the top was of a hawk tethered to a person’s hand. The video on the bottom was of a football team practicing the same drill over and over. Can you see how these are similar? They are similar because they are both videos show types of control. The difference between the two is that the hawk in being controlled against its will, in other words it has no choice, its being held by someone/something else. But the football players are choosing to be controlled, in other words they want to be better athletes so they choose to be controlled by a football coach to achieve their goal. One of the permanent exhibits was Greek antiquities that included sculptures of Poseidon and Athena. There was also pottery and money form the same period, all mostly the first, second and third century. It was amazing how old they were and how good they still looked. The other permanent exhibit was a collection of modern and realistic art. The modern pieces were awesome and funky. The realistic pieces, like Cows Crossing a Road, looked like photographs. The Tampa Museum of Art is great because there are such different styles of interesting art.
AnnaGrace
We went to the Tampa Museum of Art where we saw a temporary exhibit and two permanent exhibits. The temporary exhibit was films based on juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is comparing and contrasting two things that aren’t the same yet when you look closely have similarities. One film was of a synchronized swimmer. She was moving very slowly and beautifully. The difference in this film was that she was being filmed from under the water and upside down so that when you watched it looked like she was right-side up. The comparison is the beauty and control of synchronized swimming, the contrast is that we are watching the part we don’t normally see.
In the room across from the juxtaposition pieces there are ancient Greek relics. There are statues of Greek gods and goddesses and Greek pottery. There are black figure and red figure pottery pieces. Black figure pottery is when the figures are black and the background is red (the natural color of the pottery), red figure pottery is when the background is black and the figures are red. The next room has modern and realistic art. One realistic piece The Luncheonette looked just like a photograph of people at a city lunch counter. One of the modern pieces is three large balls, two on top and one on the bottom. One of the top balls has a man’s eye projected onto it, the other a ladies eye projected onto it. The bottom ball had a mouth projected onto it. The eyes would move independently and the mouth would speak words like “bubble” and “soft”. Another piece was a large box with what looked like walls on the outside and windows you could look through. When you looked through the windows you could see brick walls on the inside with water running down and flashing lights. It made it seem like you were inside a room with a storm outside (between the walls). I like everyday things used in unique, sometimes odd ways. I would like to see more modern art like this.
