After watching the class Art presentations, I found some pieces in everyone’s project that spoke to me. I found that Mitch and Raja’s presentation about analyzing the painting “The School of Athens” by Raphael. I had never before seen the piece, and I was captured by the beauty and expertise that the painting exhibits. I thought that the information they presented about the people in the center of the painting being more ornately dressed and higher of importance was an interesting way of looking at the artwork. They vividly described their first experience with the painting in the passage “When we encountered the painting, we were surprised with the way Raphael drew this with extreme detail. The immense hall of the school, as compared to the people, was, we thought, to show the variety of ideas that are inside it from humanities to sciences. Upon closer examination, we realized that people in the middle were much more vibrantly dressed and more detailed than the people on the sides and we thought that maybe, Raphael painted the more important people, as he saw it, in the middle and he transitioned to the less important people.” I thought that their description was very accurate and vivid.

I also loved how they played Chopin’s Nocturne behind their presentation and how the connected the classical music with the physical artwork. Overall, I thought they did a great job presenting, and I enjoyed their work.

Let’s Talk About Art Project