On the 11th of October, our professor took us out of classroom and took us on a tour in Brooklyn and it's art pieces. We visited the Henry Ward Beecher's sculpture in front of Borough Hall. Before the lesson I never had heard of Beecher, but I learned that he was a man of the people and helped a lot of people from being enslaved. From the sculpture I saw that he is important and has a lot of authority from his posture, but he also is there for the people because there are other people featured on the sculptured as well. In my opinion they could make the sculpture more interactive they could add like audio or videos on the sculpture to educate people on who he was.
Next on our list was Fred Wilson's "Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds". This was located next to the Beecher sculpture. The Beecher sculpture was more about freedom, but this one was more about imprisonment of the Indienious people.
After that we walked to Tillary Street where there was a sculpture called "Unity". At first I didn't know what to think of this and what it could represent. But from the title of the sculpture I understood that the arm could be a symbol of unity of Brooklyn.
Lastly we went to Plymouth Church, where there was another Beecher sculpture, but in that sculpture the artist Gutzom Borglum made him look much more friendlier and more like the person he was. He had his arms up in the sky and that somehow made him look more kind and good.
That was our lesson on the 11th of October in American Art, and that was a very relaxing and a nice way of learning it. I would recommend everyone to visit the sculptures and enjoy the nice fresh air.
Robin Tatar 10.16.2022
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