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Welcome to the Urban Culture course at Avila University created by Susan Lawlor and Dotty Hamilton.  We travel with our students to great cities to explore art museums, engage with the architecture, study the local film and music venues, and experience the ethnic enclaves as a way to learn about the culture of urban spaces and the interaction of art and environment.  It's a fun, intense learning environment.  

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Wednesday Morning - Chicago Art Institute

Marci gave us a quick tour of some sections of the modern wing in the amazing Chicago Art Institute.  We also got to visit the retrospective exhibit of Roy Lichtenstein's work.
Marci with the class

Kara & Cortni discussing modern art in front of Joan Mitchell work

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  1. Josh GrimesMay 20, 2012 at 5:29 PM

    This was a great trip i enjoyed every second of it. While reflecting back on the entire trip I would have to say that one thing that I learned most about would definitely have to be the art at the Chicago Art Institute. Although much of it did not look like art to me after getting left behind the group with Matt B. as we were talking to the art security about some of the individual pieces I definitely now view art in a completely different way. As Matt and I had analyzed the art for our selves one of the Art security guards noticed us talked and came over to join our conversation. By standing all day and looking at the same pieces of art and watching and listening to guided tours she had a lot of input about a lot of the art that I feel we couldn't have found out any other way. One of the pieces that we talked about specifically was a piece that was a string of light bulbs plugged in laying in a pile. At first it blew my mind on how this could be considered art. But she began to talk about how right now they are just light bulbs but eventually one of them will burn out and need to be replaced and eventually someone will have to replace the bulb by interacting with the art. And after that happens later in life the light bulbs that are used in that piece of art will no longer be manufactured and when the bulbs die out they will no longer be replaced so the art is continuing to live through the people interacting with it as it is a piece that is always changing. I would have never though about this piece of art this way unless I would have heard the input from this lady. Turns out art depends on they way people perceive it and everyone has different ways of viewing a piece and will analyze and perceive the art differently.

    Josh G.

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