This week for class we had the opportunity to virtually visit The Nassau County Museum Exhibit Blue and also the Digital Museum at the Cooper Hewitt. The Nassau County Museum of Art has made it their mission to serve art and educate everyone of all ages and sizes. It’s beautiful permanent collections, sculpture park, historic property and natural setting make up the eye catching factors of this museum. The museum is 145v acres big and is owned by William Cullen Bryant. Their exhibition “Blue Period” serves all blue art pieces.
The first piece I was mesmerized by was the Venus sculpture by Yves Klein (French, Nice 1928–1962 Paris). It was mad in ca. 1961 and the medium used is painted plaster. The dimensions are 27 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. and it is classified as a sculpture. I really liked this piece because it’s sculpted as a natural body which I love because in today’s times a lot of women feel insecure about their natural body. It’s normal for women to get surgery and modify their bodies to look a specific way, when in fact natural bodies are admirable just like this sculpture. The sculpture puts emphasis on the hips dips and natural curves of Blue Venus.
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The Second piece that caught my attention was the Buddha mind by Bettina WitteVeen. It was mad in 2019 with C-print with gallery Plexiglass face mount on wood base and is 22 x 22 inches. The artist is a devout Buddhist. I find it really cool that this piece is a reverse of the original gold piece and not initially blue. She incorporated the gold behind the piece to represent the symbolic solar gold of the rational, “day Mind” with the blue “Night Mind,” lunar and female. I was attracted to this piece because I am a spiritual person and I felt instantly calm while looking at it.
