I found the Mint Museum visit to be a pleasurable experience. The large yard/garden reminded me of some kind of Victorian Era garden that the gentry would walk through. The building itself had a bit of class to it, and I found the internal structure, while somewhat labyrinth-ish, to be fairly intuitive to walk through from one area to the next.
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| Wolf Mask, Mexico, Wood & Paint |
The wolf mask was a far departure from the other masks in the room. Most of the other masks had human or demonic features. I found this one interesting because of that, and was also curious how it'd fit on a person's head. This feels less like a mask and more like a decoration. Its visual design is unique compared to the others as well, with the tribal painted markings that give it a more from-nature kind of feel, and the style and structure of the brow and mouth and ears are completely different from the human masks.
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| Mourning Dress, circa 1863 |
I found this mannequin with mourning dress to be the most visually striking from the rest of the arrangements in the room. The stark blacks and fine quality of the cloth contrast the pale face and hands and make her stand out even more. I think also, this was the only dress made to portray an emotion as much as anything else.
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| African Mask |
I'm not really a big fan of African art, possibly because it's mostly chunky squashed angular people, or otherwise abstract shapes. For that reason, I found this one interesting because it wasn't chunky, squashed, or angular, and I can actually see this going on someone's head. I also like the physical form of it, especially the contour of the brow as it goes from middle to back.
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| Various Animal Effigy Spout Bottles |
I found the South American art areas to be the most interesting, and my favorites were the animal effigy bottles that were in one section of that area. There was just something about how the features were made, the shape and contours of their 3D attributes to make that kind of style, that made me want to go home and create my own 3D digital art using that style.
You have some very in depth interpretations of everything that you seen at the Mint musium. I also really loved the different kinds of mask that were set up all around the exhinit. Some of them looked like they were from horror films. You seem to have a taste for neutral colors. I wonder if you express this in your artwork as well.
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