My Experience

Becoming part of this Figurative Drawing course was an idea I had to get me back into drawing more than anything else. However, once our classes started I realized that I should take it as an opportunity to learn different techniques, the history of several painters, and use my time wisely to try to draw the best I could in each assignment we were given during class. I tried to follow the advice the professor would suggest during my drawings and I looked for way to improve each week to make my images look more real and full of texture. In addition, the class got me interested in learning about non-traditional artists as well as learn more about the paintings and painters I already liked such as Jean-Pierre Cot and Andy Warhol. In fact, I wanted to learn more about artists that reflected my culture and as a result, I dedicated my last research assignment to Oswaldo Guayasamin, an Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, and human rights fighter. Overall, this class helped me relearn a lot of drawings techniques that I now will dedicate myself to practice more often in my drawings and helped me appreciate art as a whole and realize the impact it had and has in our culture and social.

Visit to the MET

Visiting the MET is always a learning experience. This time my classmates and I were there especially to wisdom the William Kentridge exhibit "The Refusal of Time". As decribed by the artist himself, The Refusal of Time was a 30min meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life. It was a combination of different images and sounds put together on various screens at the same time, giving us (the audience) a very 3-D experience as well as surprising us with random and unexpected situations throughout the show. After Kentridge, we went to see some of his actual drawing and painting pieces, followed by visitng the renaissance gallery and greek gallery. Although our visit was limited to a certain section of the museum, I got to focus my attention to few things which allowed me to discover tiny details I did not know about before. For example, during the Kentridge exhibit I used multiple senses like sight, hear, and touch to unedrstand the story Kentridge was trying to portray.