Expressionism: The Mystery

          Expressionism is the displaying of one's inner feeling, emotions, and methods of coping through art.  This is created when a person digs deeply into their preferred form of art to let their emotions out.  Some dance, whether it be choppy and full of anger, or smooth and full of love or sadness, is a powerful way of releasing all that seems ready to explode in the that person's mind.  It usually comes from being overwhelmed, hurt, surprised, or inspired.  Others may write a poem as a form of expressionism. 

          I often do this, but only when I'm in "the mode."  I have to either be feeling strong emotions of confusion or become inspired by over-thinking.  This often happens with me when I'm overly tired.  I would let the words pour out of my mind and onto the paper without any thought.  

          It is this kind of art that displays the deepest of feelings, this kind of art that accurately shows one's inner-self if interpreted correctly, and it is this kind of art that one can express in almost any way, whether in; painting, drawing, taking photos at certain angles to capture the artist's mood, improvisation in singing while in a deep mood, or it can be expressed in almost anything that could be considered art.  Expressionism is the kind of art that digs down and finds the deepest, most honest feelings and qualities in a person.

Guggenheim Vs. Me on the meaning of Monochrome

          I walked in wondering where the exhibit was.  A large decoration which covered every topic and emotion imaginable dangled from the celling, but the walls were white and blank, leaving my past memories of the color-filled walls drained.  Baffled, I started wandering the museum's grounds, swirling steadily up, with finally an apparent entrance way, leading somewhere other than in the direction of the common twist.  It was a spacey, little room called "Monochrome," which was deceiving at first, seeing that all the art was only one color each and not just black and white.
          This term of monochrome is often used by meaning solids, but its technical meaning is just the shades of black and white.  What I find very interesting is that when you dig into what white is, it is every color combined, so maybe the Guggenheim's meaning of monochrome could also be correct.  That would mean that a multicolored object would also be monochromatic and that the world and everything we know is monochromatic, taken as dull and lifeless, but this again has its issues.  What does black and white make; everything, or gray?  Does it make both?
          I take monochrome to be the part that is gray.  Although both are made at a certain point,  monochrome is the appearance to the human eye, the lack of our ability to see every color at once.  We look at black and see darkness.  We look at white and see it as light.  The human eye is not complex enough, leading to new experiments; how to erase the white, how to eliminate a monochromatic factor, and to see the details of color.  I don't see any accomplishment here, but this is the truth of what could lie ahead in research, due to our nature of curiosity. Basically, what I took from all this is that monochrome is the definition of what we see as black and white.  Was the Guggenheim wrong?  I believe that a mistake was made since they were talking about beyond the human eye instead of what we see when mixing paints together (such as black and white, making gray), but it all depends on one's definition of the meaning of monochromatic.