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Professor Cherrington
HUMA-1100-301-Su19
Humanities
E-Portfolio
03 August 2019
This was my favorite assignment in the Humanities 1100 course. This was
a report on visiting the fine Arts Museum and writing a report on the experience.
Also reporting about a fine art exhibit or art that was captivating and moving. I
related the captivating piece to the course on the five terms we studied through the
semester: the freedom unit, the love and passion unit, nature unit, identity unit,
and finally the happiness unit. This class has mostly helped me understand what
about the things that make us humans and the things that bring us happiness in
life. I also have a greater appreciation for art and poems after this course. This
class has also helped me to respect individuals no matter the difference. After
studying and having discussions in class, I have come to the understanding we all
feel, view, and relate our experiences differently from everyone else. And how we
relate, express and feel that experience is the connection to humanity with the
units we studied. Mostly this class has made me make my own opinion about
anything I read and not take things at face value. It has made me research the
I decided to visit the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, this was my first time
museum was not something that was done. The first time I visited a museum was
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when I was 12 or 13 years old. It was organized by my school and the school does
museum holds a collection of archaeological material dating back 3,700 years and
cultural objects representing both Fiji’s indigenous inhabitants and the other
communities that have settled in the island group over the past 200 years. I was so
impressed by the visit that when I was 15 or so, I went and visited one on my
own. I saved all the money I got for a month to go visit. I was fascinated with all
the archaeological displays, the canoe, the war club, the poetry and the history of
my ancestors that came in the British boats from India as slave workers to
colonize Fiji and work in the sugar cane farms. This experience has left a great
archaeological fine arts museum related to the indigenous Maori history. I was so
interested in everything, except the fine arts part of the museum (or if there were
Visiting the Utah Museum of Fine Arts was my first time visiting only a
fine arts museum. I spent three hours looking at all the art work displayed at the
museum. At first, I didn’t like what I saw on the first floor and so I moved to the
second floor. I went through the second floor and liked a few displays. So, I took
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photos of them. Of the entire exhibition, there were only five pieces that I really
enjoyed. After three hours of looking at different parts of the museum, I drove
home and told myself that I would think about the five pieces I liked and choose
As a considered the art I had seen, I started to notice what I liked and why
I liked them. At first, my thoughts of the fine arts museum was that I didn’t like
fine arts. I had no appreciation for any of the paintings in the European display on
the first floor, paintings were not my thing. They didn’t speak to me, or at least,
not the ones I saw at the museum. I thought about this. Did I not like paintings?
And I decided that wasn’t it -- I like paintings. I like some Fijian artist paintings
back home, so I like paintings. Just not the ones on display at the museum. This
thought led to the conclusion that the things I like, are things I am attached to.
I thought I liked the archaeological history art exhibits of Mexico and the
tombs from Egypt, but thinking more about it, I didn’t like it as much because I
was not attached to these exhibits. The first attachment I had, was in the south
Asian section. There were these portraits of Gods from India, made of wood and
Stone carvings. This connection was from my ancestors lineage, from India and
fascination was in the Pacific art display of the wooden face carving. Living in
New Zealand, native Maori people had facial paintings of their faces and the
wood on display was of that. My third interest was of a real image of the Hoover
dam. This interest is from my field of study in civil engineering. I’m very
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Another piece I wanted to write about was a modern and contemporary
display of an old tire sculptor Chakaia Booker. And as I was pondering on this
and the final, I released I was drawn to the tire sculptor because my love for
The last piece I had no attachment to and it’s something I had not seen
growing up. And this was the reason I chose this to analyze. The Pigment Print
(photograph) by Andrew Patteson, created in 2012. The piece does not have a
title. The reason I chose this piece was that, in spite of not having any attachment
to this exhibit, this called out to me, I was inspired, amused, and captured by the
color, the rough surrounding, the modern framing and its uniqueness moved me.
I could relate this painting to most of the themes we have covered. The
one that stands out the most is identity. This art is left open to interpretation. The
sign does not have any panels to you could put up any thing you want as an
human identity, it’s old yet still usable, and it’s exposing the structure of the sign.
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Photograph by Andrew Patteson
The pink paint on the sign is bold. It represents the old, the industrial, and
society with rough neighborhoods. Andrew Patteson set out to photograph 78th
South Street in Salt Lake. His purpose was to discover and get to know a little
better the road he drove on every day. This piece has a wide range of emotions
attached to it just as its open interpretation, to some it’s a the feeling of belonging
“that’s my neighborhood” to some it’s the feeling of old, to another “ I’m ready,
I’m still useful.” My first impression was well used and as I looked at it more, my
view changed with new interpretations. Because of its open interpretation, and no
title to the piece, this photograph is looking into humanity in many ways. It’s an
identity piece, it’s nature and industrialization, it’s freedom and enjoyment not
working. It’s home and livelihood. Although this piece is very native to Salt Lake
City, this could be for any country, group of people, and race. It’s open to the
individual’s interpretation.
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Not all fine art is for me and from this visit to the fine art museum I have
and likes. I love seeing art made of recycling materials. A few of my favorite fine
art pieces are not in a museum, but a car repair shop I take my car to. They have
robots, tanks, spaceships all made from used car parts. Having visited the museum
and seeing the photograph of the sign, this has opened a new likeness for fine arts
Fine art has a way of expressing human feelings through time. It’s a
expression of the moment captured in time for generations to come. Some fine art
teaches us of history, others of reality, and some of destruction. Its evokes a wide
range of emotion to its viewers. The art captures humanity through out time.
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Unidentified artist, wood carving New
Zealand
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Unidentified artist, India
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