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University of Aesthematics Team Building Artistic Retreat by bunny dragon, rongo rongo

August 1st, 2008 12:23 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Go on an artistic retreat with team members.

Ah, Art. Ah, New York City. NYC is a veritable cauldron of seething humanity, and since there is no art without human agency, the city is a great place to go for an artistic retreat. We spent the weekend mostly taking in bits of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. The strangest effect of thinking about the visit as an Artistic Retreat was that I saw everything as a potential sketch subject. People lounging in the park, horse carriages, street vendors, architecture, even the food. Although I didn't end up drawing any of these things, I saw them differently simply because I considered drawing them. But, although it would have been kind of an ironic artsy thing to do an artistic retreat without actually creating any physical artifacts, I did finally draw some of my favorite pieces from the Metropolitan Museum.

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A reproduction moai

A reproduction moai

We made a quick stop at the American Museum of Natural History, but the ratio of cool stuff to screaming multitudes of school groups was not high enough. This reproduction of an Easter Island statue is a popular photo spot. While standing here, I overheard a parent misinform their kid about the mysteries of Easter Island.


Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

One of the statues in Central Park is a giant Alice and friends. The statue is kept well polished by the many visitors climbing up for a closer look.


Magic mushrooms

Magic mushrooms

The Alice statue is surrounded by giant mushrooms.


Big Budha is watching

Big Budha is watching

We enjoyed the Metropolitan, even though an all-day stint of art viewing made our feet hurt.


Drawing Shiva Dancing

Drawing Shiva Dancing

There were two dancing Shiva sculptures displayed next to each other. I liked the flaming hoop of this one better.


What would you do with four arms?

What would you do with four arms?


From the palace at Nimrud

From the palace at Nimrud

What I particularly liked about this character is that it appears to be wearing two wrist watches (wrist sundials?) and carrying a cute little handbag.


A silt gong from Vanuatu

A silt gong from Vanuatu

I really don't see how anyone can doubt that the Easter Island statues spring directly from the Pacific Island artistic tradition after seeing some samples of other island artistry.



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posted by Lank on August 3rd, 2008 3:35 PM

Nice!

I love that Alice statue in Central Park. Makes the statues in Golden Gate Park seem so stuffy by comparison.

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posted by lefthandedsnail on August 4th, 2008 6:54 AM

There are definitely shared traits between a lot of Pacific island art. What I think is super exciting about the similarities between the slit gong you sketched and the Easter Island statues (posture, the nose) is that Vanuatu is pretty much on the opposite side of the Pacific and it's part of Micronesia, considered to be a separate cultural group from Polynesia. You get that nice, shivery, "hey, we're all people" feeling from that one!