MACAY

-          Today, after class, a small group of us went to MACAY, the modern art museum in Merida.  I’m not too fond of modern art.  I’m more into the classics, but occasionally I do like some modern art pieces.  It is mostly because I don’t quite understand it.  When I think of modern art, it is like splashing paint on to a canvas and then calling it a work of art.  Apparently there is some meaning to these pieces but to me, it is quite difficult to grasp what the artist was trying to do.

-          At MACAY, I only like two exhibits from two modern artists, Gina Novendstern and Benjamin Dominguez.  Gina Novendstern’s pieces were small metal sculptures.  They weren’t completely figures though.  Some were just toursos, others were just heads, but when you looked at them, you could grasp what she wanted to portray.  These pieces were very moving.  My favorite was of a torso of a woman that was dangling from a string.  This piece was trying to signify solitude and I was moved by the piece.  Benjamin Dominguez was a portrait artist that used the same background of a room and a mirror in his painting.  I really liked this exhibit because it was clear to see the religious connotations within the works of art.  It was very subtle, which was I thought was very interesting.

-          Other than those two artists, I just clearly did not get the works from other artists.  I’m more into the classics, like Claude Monet and his impressionist paintings.  Modern art is just too chaotic and too open to interpretation, which appeals to some people but not to me.