Gallery Review

On the 29th of October 2014, I went to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. I got there for about 10:15. I went into the Museum through the front entrance and as soon as I got to the front desk I was amazed by so many different pieces of art work. I looked mainly at exhibition 13, 12, 11 and 10. I thought what the exhibitions had to show was very good and interesting. 

I asked one of the museum's protection staff members if they could help and she was very helpful.
I asked her if there was any 'modern day photography that involves layering and movement'. She told me to look more at the 10,11 and 12 exhibitions. Them exhibitions included photography, but none of it was what I was looking for. 

I did find a couple of pieces of work which I was interested in. The pieces were in the 'Silent Partners' exhibition. The artist I looked at was called Andre Masson. Both pieces were created in Paris in 1938. It was an interesting piece and seemed to have a meaningful message behind some of the photographs. The photographs were interesting to an extent. They didn't include the movement that I was looking for in photography. Although the exhibition of the 'Silent Partners' is one of the most wide ranging and ambitious shows ever hosted at the Fitzwilliam museum. There was over 180 paintings, drawings, photographs and fashion dolls. These fashion dolls were quite extraordinary. The Silent Partners exhibition will travel to the Musee Bourdelle in Paris next and will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated book published by Yale university press in association with Paris Musees.

I found that the museum didn't really interest me very much apart from part of the silent partners exhibition. I then remembered that I saw photographs in a window of an old bicycle shop. So I visited the old shop which had shut down on Regent Street, in Cambridge and I researched an English artist that did similar things to the photos in the window. I was unable to find a English slow shutter speed photographer, but what I did find was another student at a college/university who did similar things to what I am planning to do. It was inspirational to look at and I enjoyed scrolling through his blog looking at all the grand photographs he's done. His name is Ryan Lumpkin and he did something similar to the photograph I went to visit in the window of Regent street.

 

This is his own photograph and I like the similarities it has to the photograph in the window. It's a shame that I couldn't find much to interest me at the Fitzwilliam museum. And unfortunately I couldn't find the time or money to go and look somewhere else. The photographs are very similar because, they both have a slow shutter speed effect to them. Although the top one from the window isn't very clear it still is very interesting to look at. They both have lots of shadowing involved in the photograph. And obviously the differences between them both is that one is in colour and the other one is in black and white. The black and white photo is more successful because it's more clearer to the viewer but the coloured one in my opinion seems like there's a mystery behind it.

I enjoyed visiting both Regent street and the Fitzwilliam but I was disappointed with the photography. I remembered from when we went last time that it's quite a traditional old fashioned museum with a lot of paintings and not a lot of modern day art although I had fun doing some drawings which will be going in my sketchbook.