The field trip to Dia:Beacon with the art department on Friday was quite an experience. When I first walked into the museum, I was amazed at how large the museum really was. It was very spacious and had sunlight shining in on the artworks. Dia:Beacon was those types of museums you can only see in pictures and documentaries. I never imagined myself standing there and viewing the works in person. I was rather impressed with many works in the museum and the large scale of some of them. There were many artworks I really enjoyed at the museum, but my favorite piece was by John Chamberlain called The Privet. That piece was made out of metal tendrils and it was painted with different colors. It was just very fascinating to see how metal can be created into such a beautiful sculpture. The piece was just very fun to look at because of the colors and the amazing detail of the curves of the metal pieces. The piece looked like a barrier of metal blocking you from something. Overall, it was just very exciting to see this piece at the museum.
John Chamberlain, The Privet, 1997The next two artists both had really impressive works. The first artist was Sol LeWitt. His works took up majority of the museum. His Drawing Series was pretty detailed and looked like it was very time-consuming. The series consisted of varied drawings on the wall done in graphite pencil and color pencils. Each wall drawing was different and unique. Most of them had various line qualities and took up almost entire walls of the museum. All the wall drawings also had instructions on how the real drawing was made. I found that very interesting to see how Sol LeWitt created his masterpieces. Overall, it was very interesting to see the intricate details of each drawing.
The last artist whose work I also found fascinating was Robert Smithson. Most of his works use the materials: glass, mirrors and gravel. His piece titled Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis) was simply amazing to look at. It was rather interesting because this piece consisted of broken shards of glass in different sizes. The arrangement of the broken glass pieces made the piece even more interesting. The color of the piece was also beautiful because it was a light blue tint. When looking at the piece, I was almost terrified of getting too close to the piece and falling in the pile of glass. I also wondered how Smithson assembled this artwork because I would be frightened to use glass as my material. But besides that, the piece was just simply beautiful and delicate. The intricacy definitely made it even more interesting to look at. Overall, the whole field trip to Dia:Beacon was very memorable.
Robert Smithson, Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis), 1969
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