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(04/12/18 1:00pm)
This Friday on College Green, the Class Boards of all four years are coming together to host a celebration of color in honor of Holi. Prepare yourself, because there’s probably going to be a number of cute photos captioned “Holi Moli!” or something of the like. The event makes the Hindu holiday accessible to all and gives students the opportunity to experience a rich culture that they may not be familiar with.
(04/10/18 1:00pm)
Tucked between the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall is the Annenberg School for Communication, one of the more heavily traversed spots on campus. While most of Penn students have been inside, few notice the multihued, 17–component mural spanning the east wall of the school’s lobby. It’s Sam Maitin’s (C '51) "Celebration."
(04/02/18 1:00pm)
The first time I looked at a Rothko painting, my mouth fell open in awe. Not the kind of awe where I was astounded by the prodigy of the work, but the kind of awe that a piece like this was worth millions. If I had drawn a block and filled in with colors on a canvas, what would be the difference? This is just one of the many criticisms modern and contemporary art receive: its abstractness is almost too abstract to make an ounce of sense. In comparison to art of the past, which was very much characterized by portraitures and landscapes, there’s no definite object, no definite figure, or even a definite shape in modern art. How (in hell) can the two ever be connected? That’s what this year’s SPEC Art Collective exhibit, Art in Translation: Present Reinterpretations of Art History was all about: the connection between the art of the past and the present.
(03/24/18 1:00pm)
In higher education, potential visual arts and graphic design majors have three choices: 1) Attend an art school, 2) Attend a large university with a visual arts department, or 3) Attend a university with an art school. It’s a Goldilocks situation: soft, medium, or hard art. The decision comes down to choosing between one of pure art or one that mixes the fine and liberal arts. But what distinguishes studying art in a college setting from pursuing an art degree at an art institute? Why do we even fathom taking art classes somewhere where art is eclipsed?
(03/30/18 1:00pm)
The relationship between art and academia is oftentimes uneasy. University–based art teaching is comparable to scientific research, where craft and technique are subordinate to formal analysis and critical theory. But art doesn’t have to be intellectualized or institutionalized. At Penn, students like Jenn, Hadeel, and Faith all do art on their own time, allowing it to permeate their lives. This is the kind of engagement the arts program in the college houses aims to support: to imbue the arts into daily life.
(03/14/18 1:00pm)
Of the many clubs on campus, few serve simply as an outlet for us, let alone a creative outlet. There are of course the typical consulting and finance clubs that seem to have insurmountable barriers of entry. On the other end of the spectrum there are the performing arts groups who spend days and nights together to work on shows. In between are the vast array of other clubs, many of which emanate preprofessional vibes regardless of whether or not they are preprofessional in nature.
(03/13/18 1:00pm)
To read the written word is one thing: it allows one to understand the self, to connect with others, and even to fantasize in an imagined world. But to hear the written the word—that’s a completely separate thing. That’s exactly what “LIVE at the Writers House” does. Occuring six times a year, LIVE at the Writers House airs a “one–hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken–word art, along with one musical guest from the Writers House onto the airwaves at WXPN.”
(03/15/18 1:00pm)
When I hear the words “American art,” I see a mental image of Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow; when I hear “European arts,” I see da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks; when I hear “Japanese art,” I see Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Clearly, where art derives from determines its character. In the same way, where Penn students go abroad for art shapes their individual creative processes.
(02/21/18 2:51am)
It was dim and cool in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I felt giddy. It took me awhile to believe that John Singer Sargent’s original In the Luxembourg Gardens was indeed inches before me. Eyes wide, mouth wider, I was filled with a sentimental attachment: this was more than a painting. Gazing at the painting, the loose, dashing brushstrokes that so elegantly depicted the garden scene, I sensed spontaneity and closeness. In his casual positioning of the figures and seemingly random choice of setting, I saw a friend in the painting. Artworks like this expand my transient existence by allowing me to live, for a brief moment, in the grandmasters’ worlds across space and time.
(02/14/18 3:16am)
Every day we walk past it, barely affording it a glimpse while every tourist flocks to it so as to sneak a peek at the marvel. It’s a prime landmark on campus—the LOVE statue. Right in the center of campus, surrounded by ivy–covered red brick buildings, the LOVE statue has as its backdrop a picturesque scene. Spring or winter, the tree–lined walk is always blanketed in either green or white. But the LOVE statue is so much more than another monument only tourists appreciate.
(02/23/18 2:00pm)
A picture is supposed to say a thousand words. But when the picture is of a person, does that mean the person can be reduced to ten thousand words? Surely not. What a picture does, or at least is supposed to do, is to say something inexpressible and incommunicable by language. It’s supposed to go beyond the constraints of our linguistic capacities. That’s exactly what Faith Cho (C ’20) does.
(02/08/18 5:39am)
Philadelphia: home of the Eagles, the Liberty Bell, and the good old Philly cheesesteak. What doesn’t come to mind, though, are the many art museums and cultural institutions that are responsible for the city's ranking as number one in its amount of outdoor sculptures and murals. These museums and institutions are precisely what make up the long grove that is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the epitome of the arts culture in Philadelphia.
(02/02/18 2:09pm)
So, apparently, I look like Rembrandt. This isn’t some metaphorical comparison nor does it have some deep symbolic meaning. When I say I look like Rembrandt, I mean I literally look like Rembrandt—a laughing Rembrandt, to be precise. Or at least that’s what the app “Google Arts and Culture” told me. I’d dispute it, but even just looking at the comparison, I can’t help but see the uncanny resemblance.