The Wonders Of Historical Art

On Tuesday October 11th, my class went on a trip to learn about the different monuments and sculptures in Brooklyn New York at Columbus Park. It was a very nice day to walk around and learn about different historical facts of sculptures, and meaning behind them, and just having the wonders on why they're made the way they're made.

This Sculpture is called Unity, it's across the street from Columbus Park. When I think of the word Unity I think of everything In one, everything/everyone coming together as a unison. The sculpture makes me think of something that is only one of but people know it has something that is more than one. It's a very tall. Sculpture that I believe Thomas wanted everyone to see and let everyone to get a good understanding on what it is. The titile Unity makes me understand that we all as a community, as the people in New York, we need to come together as one. Not let people go through things alone so we can be in peace as a unison. No matter what color we are, no matter how different we are from each other appearance wise and personality wise, at the end of the day we are ALL human, we ALL have feelings. Us as human beings are a lot a like than different and that's why we should all be as one, that's what the Unity sculpture to me is representing.

Here we have Henry Beecher. He was the type of person that everyone looked up to in the late 1800s, especially slaves. I say especially slaves because in the 1800s, he had invited slaves on stage and would hold an mock slave auction for them until it was enough money for the slaves to be free. Henry Beecher has two sculptures, one in Columbus park and one on hicks street. The one in Columbus Park, he had a specific position that is way different than the one of him on hicks street. His position on the sculpture looks very naturalistic. He was a very kind and decent guy who had a big heart towards the people who appreciates what he does for living and why he does it, for example children/orphans. However the position doesn't show that type of person. It doesn't show enough of the Henry Beecher we learn about.

Now the one on Hicks Street is giving more action than the one at Columbus park. It's showing exactly the Henry Beecher we learn, the type of person he is, and how he treats the people around him. For example the Hicks street sculpture shows two women that are in desperate need of assistance and Beecher is reaching his hand out showing his gratitude and how much he cared for his people in desperate need.

There can be many possibilities of what a sculpture could mean. That doesn't mean that they're or right because it's that person's imagination and there wonderings of that sculpture. Without not having the wonders of a sculpture, what the historical figure or artist was trying to prove with the sculpture/ monument, we wouldn't have a historical art.