Arty afternoon.
Sep. 19th, 2015 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckI really should be marking those essays, but here have some pictures of our trip to the museum with our English guests:
A room full of very expensive grey:
Gerhard Richter's work is definitely overvalued on the art market, but it is still one of my favourite rooms in the museum. No, seriously, it's a disconcerting room to be in at first, slightly disorienting.
Not so sure about this bilingual artwork:
A Hecke is not a hatch, but a hedge. (Though they sound near identical to German ears and with a strong German accent, it would be hard to tell them apart.) The German is better translated as "along the hedge".
On the other hand, it could always be intentional.
The first time I was in the museum with a group of British pupils, the guide did not stop to tell us about the picture with the pink writing. This time, with slightly older pupils, we got to hear more about it - I think, because someone had already spotted a number of taboo words. The words come from the notes the artist took when s/he watched a porn film in an adult movie theater somewhere. (I think it was a woman, but I'm not sure.) It reads like really bad x-rated fanfiction. There were lots of blushes around & most students demurely looked away. No one mentioned the object which you can see in the foreground.
Interacting with this was a lot less embarrassing:
We also got to make our own art:
A room full of very expensive grey:
Gerhard Richter's work is definitely overvalued on the art market, but it is still one of my favourite rooms in the museum. No, seriously, it's a disconcerting room to be in at first, slightly disorienting.
Not so sure about this bilingual artwork:
A Hecke is not a hatch, but a hedge. (Though they sound near identical to German ears and with a strong German accent, it would be hard to tell them apart.) The German is better translated as "along the hedge".
On the other hand, it could always be intentional.
The first time I was in the museum with a group of British pupils, the guide did not stop to tell us about the picture with the pink writing. This time, with slightly older pupils, we got to hear more about it - I think, because someone had already spotted a number of taboo words. The words come from the notes the artist took when s/he watched a porn film in an adult movie theater somewhere. (I think it was a woman, but I'm not sure.) It reads like really bad x-rated fanfiction. There were lots of blushes around & most students demurely looked away. No one mentioned the object which you can see in the foreground.
Interacting with this was a lot less embarrassing:
We also got to make our own art:
