This looks like a samuraï but it’s made out of different things like a keyboard and a piece of a guitar. Imagine lugging that around everywhere you go. It makes you feel bad for the transformers. It does not glow in the dark; it is actually under a black light. Imagine going to a party in that and there is a black light you would be the talk of the party. Just don’t let anyone touch it after a few drinks. There is a picture of this in the book from the show you can see the things in the suit better in the picture because it isn’t dark in the picture.
The Facts:
Rammellzee
1989
Material: Mixed Media
The Rammellzee Estate, in memory of Carmela Zagari Rammellzee
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip Hop Generation; special exhibition at the MFA
The real question is how did the artist draw a picture of her looking at something but also being stalked by a man? Did she know that he was there? Did she just imagine it? Just how really did she get the picture?
This corkscrew was drawn by the same person who did a painting called “Watson and the Shark” but I will talk about that painting next time. The thing about this painting is it is on a piece of a door jam because when the artist was drunk at a party they needed a corkscrew so the guy was like “wait I’ve got a idea *draws a corkscrew* there” and somehow it looked GOOD even though he was drunk. Since it was so good they cut it off of the door jam and put it in a museum. I may not be old enough to drink but I know I could probably not draw that good if I was drunk.
Thanks to COVID-19 the MFA was closed but today it’s open again!:) only a few wings were open but it was cool 👍🏻 we saw a lot of art pieces we usually don’t see a lot.
Also we met a person from this thing called station 4 and we talked to the person with a microphone thing OwO I didn’t talk much.
We saw a beautifully drawn corkscrew drawn on a door frame that was drawn when the artist was DRUNK. How? I have no idea but that probably for a another post though anyway the MFA is open and I am happy, that’s all for now bye!
When I first saw this painting thought Mary looked like she was saying, “omg I just popped out a baby and I’m still a virgin…how?! Why are there people I don’t even know?… why are there Kings here?…why is there a angel here? AM I DEAD!?! Is that why am I being ignored by these complete strangers!?!… I’m just gonna name you… Jesus Christ… that’s it! I’m gonna name you Jesus!”
Yup I have a wired imagination, but isn’t it weird that all these people she didn’t know just showed up? Though anyway that’s all I have to say, bye!
It looks like a hippo that’s the size of a corgi. But the real question is: do you take the head off to put the wine in? and how long would the wine last for? The world may never now but what I am sure about is that it is adorably durpy.
The Facts:
Paracas, Early Horizon (late phase), 100 BC – AD 1
Materials: Earthenware: red, ochre, black and white post-fire resin paint
Art in Bloom is a thing they do at the MFA since the MFA closed because of the corona virus we decided to do Art in Bloom at Home we each picked a art piece in the museum and made a flower arrangement based on the art piece we chose. I like this day because it’s relaxing but it’s also very crowded.
There’s also a pop up cafe. The last time we went there we sat near a painting with a lot of creepy angel baby heads. We had our own cafe with cupcakes and cookies from our friend’s bakery (Battistini’s Bakery), lemonade, and quiche.
From Top Left Clockwise (Algerian Girl by Renoir – arrangement by my older sister, Porcelain Monkey aka Monkey King – arrangement by me, Morning Cart by Loren MacIver – arrangement by my younger sister, Some of the flowers the night before, Art in Bloom at Home Cafe, The Letting Go by Sarah Sze – arrangement by my mom
Juno is the Roman version of Hera as you can see she is a statue. FUN FACT: Juno is the biggest Roman statue in the USA. Juno was made in Italy. She is important because Hera is a goddess and this is one of the ways of worshipping her. FUN FACT: Hades or Pluto is the only god that wasn’t drawn in pictures because they thought it would attract him to them. I like this statue because I just do.
Hera’s role in mythology is queen and the jealous wife of Zeus the king. She killed or punished Zeus’s side chicks. Example: she in the disguise of a old woman made friends with the side chick and made her what to see what Zeus’s godly form looked like. The side chick died because she was mortal and couldn’t bear seeing his godliness. Or like Leto, Apollo and Artemis’s mom, Hera kept her alive but punished her to not be able to give birth on anywhere until Leto hid on Delos.
Victoria Reed told Juno’s history on Twitter. It is interesting. First Juno was in the Ludovisi gardens in Rome, Italy. The earliest record was 1633. Nobody knows how she got there. Then she was sold in 1897 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprague. They brought her to Faulkner Farm in Brookline, Massachusetts on a cart pulled by 12 oxen. She had a lot of ghost stories tied to her there and was called “Gloria.” Then in 2011 she was sold to the MFA. They cut her head off first and then used a crane to airlift her in because she was too big to fit in the elevator. I learned that from this video: Juno on the Move.
They repaired a lot of things. They reattached the head after Henry XIIIing her. They cleaned the statue. They fixed the nose and the lips. They used modeling clay to make the new nose and lips onto a plaster version of the head. Then they used a mold to make the plaster nose and lips to put on the face. The pictures are on this website: Conservation in Action: Juno. I like the pictures because it looks cool. She looks like she has a coronavirus mask in one of them on this page.
The most surprising thing I learned about Juno from my research was that her head and body were from two different statues, Juno is one of my favorite sculptures in the MFA to visit I will be happy to see her again in her new gallery when it is opened. 😁
The Facts:
Roman
Head, Trajanic or Hadrianic Period, Body early Imperial period
Late 1st B.C. or early 1st A.D.; Head 1st-2nd A.D.
Material: Marble
Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously (2011.75)
Okay, these are cool mirrors. They can do magic. I mean look at it, it’s so cool. It combines some of my favorite things: glass and mirrors. I like glass because it looks really nice to the eyes, and I like mirrors because they’re strange. I mean you can look at yourself because it’s so shiny.
It is a magic trick because there are only one or two of the glasses but then the mirrors are around them and make it look like hundreds of glasses. This is called an optical illusion. I learned about it at Beyond the Spectrum. You can take cool selfies in it too. This is just our legs.
This is Abraham Lincoln. He is one of the few things people can touch at the MFA. He is made of bronze. The more golden looking parts are the parts people like to touch the most. This is because when the people touch it the bronze is worn down and changed from their skin. I am not a scientist, so I don’t know all the science behind it.
This is a smaller version of the bigger statue because if you were gonna make a big statue you wouldn’t want to make it and then decide it’s just bad looking. It’s kinda like getting a tattoo, you’ll want a tattoo that you like but also you can get a really bad tattoo so you have to plan it out. They do the same thing with statues like this: use a material that is cheap and make a smaller version of the statue to see if they like the design.
The big version of this statue is at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The big one is made of marble.
Museums with Mina 