Brown vs. Board of Education Art Exhibit :: Art Museum Exhibit Segregation

Black and gaberdine Walking into Krannert Art Museum, I experienced something I have never experienced to begin with. That something was actually analyzing and appreciating stratagemwork. I have been around artwork before and have looked at many times and I have enjoyed it solely I have never really sat down with art to break it down and reflection the little details that make it so powerful. Today I did at Krannert Art Museum while looking at their Brown vs. Board showing. I was able to break everything down and notice the details and by doing this I got a much more authoritative experience out of it. At first glance it is the colors in the room that jump out at you and draws your attention most but after really looking around you see the colorfulness isnt the what the artificer wants to attract your attention but instead on all of the bootleg and white all over the room which fits perfectly with the idea the exhibit is trying to get across. This idea is tha t blacks and whites argon equal and together, as Americans, they are much more powerful then when they stand apart as whites and blacks. As soon as I walked into the exhibit I observe it had kind of an eerie aura to it. The lights were dim and thither was a eccentric silence that was only interrupted about every ten seconds or so by a low, almost electronic sounding, humming advent from one of the distant rooms. Also, every so often the lights would flicker a little and between that, and the movie that was playing on the side argue switching between clips, it gave the room a very sporadic spectral atmosphere. I walked into the two different rooms and two things caught my eye. The brightly nonreversible flowers and people wallpaper on the left side of the first room, and the wide colored picture of Brett Charles Cook, on the left side of the second room. I noticed that this huge portrait was done using mostly vipers bugloss and orange paint, which may have bee n a way for the artists to get the students there to connect with the painting or just to catch their attention.