Travel Journal: Berlin

As part of the trip, we were encouraged to keep a diary encompassing the whole of the five days.  I did this, and not really having kept a personal journal before, I slipped into the habit fairly naturally.  I really did keep a journal! <smiles smugly and pats myself on the back>.

Here are some of the pages from that infamous diary:

(notes taken inside the Holocaust Memorial)

(looking at the work of Anselm Kiefer in the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum)

(Kunstgewerbe Museum : Collection of decorative arts throughout the centuries)

(Private Collection : Henri Matisse; Staatliche Muaeen zu Berlin) 

:-)

Berlin (continued...)

It was great for me to see John McCracken's work in reality, and not just in books or magazines.  Relating back to my first project in semester one McCracken was one of the artist's I had looked into and admired. (Above)

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Robert Rauschenberg

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Anselm Kiefer

(above: an entire piece made of lead)

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Carsten Höller

'Soma'



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Berlin

A college trip to Berlin.  26 students.  2 Tutors.  And 1 bus driver with a twirling mustache...

                                                       (There he is! The mustache man...)

(Taken within the maze of monuments that is Berlin's Holocaust Memorial)  

(Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz : This was the undergound station that was right outside St. Christopher's, the hostel where we were staying.)

(and the trains were always packed full of people..)

(The architecture was amazing...

...and so was the nightlife)

                                                         (Above: work by artist Kathe Kolliwitz)

Over the five days we travelled to several of Berlin's largest art galleries and saw countless works by brilliant artists, some of which included: Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, John McCracken and Henri Matisse.

Andy Warhol

Without sounding arrogant, Andy Warhol's pieces were much larger and more impressive than I would have previously assumed.  I was pleasantly surprised.

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