1. Boise Art Museum
I went to Boise Art Museum and there were several galleries going on. The one that caught my eyes was Robots gallery. I went in and looked at couple of them and seemed very cool. There were paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs.
Nam June Paik
Born 1932 Seoul, Korea
Died 2006 Miami, Florida
This was a painting. Total of 8 images put together but separately framed. 4 image son the top and 4 images below, the top images being the eye level of standing person and hanging on the wall. On each painting there is a drawing of a robot on a colored background. Each image has a different color of background(brown, yellow, blue, green, pink, red, blue, and black). The drawings of robots are very schematized. They are not very realistic nor 3D looking. On the robots there are Chinese writings on them.
I thought it was very eye catching yet very simple. colorful and vibrant.
I'm not sure what the meaning of this art is, but i thought it showed a very interesting characteristics of the artist's style.
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2. Boise Capital
I went to Boise Capital to check out their new displays of photographs. The one that caught my eye was a photograph of Balloon Fest in Boise.
Michael Luque
Boise Balloon Fest 2006
This is a colored photograph of Boise city with huge several balloons floating around. In the photograph, there are Boise Capital building and US Bank building. I thought it was very interesting because i didnt even know they had this kind of event here in Boise in 2006. The color of photograph is rather dull except for the balloons, so it makes balloons pop out more.
I don't think there is a very much of a meaning to this photograph. It is more like a purpose of keeping a memory and history of Boise.
3. Boise Zoo
I went to Boise Zoo to check out couple things, since I've never been to it even though I've lived in Boise for 9 years, i thought it would be my chance to visit.
I was looking at animals but they weren't all that interesting. Not to mention it wasn't much of a gallery. But I found something that was semi-interesting. It was a collection of animal head. I thought it was rather a best gallery display at the zoo. And also found a collection of different animal's waste. I thought it was interesting and same time very funny.
The main purpose of the zoo was to be informative about animals.
