On October 15, 2008 we were fortunate to be showered with a lovely weather and a field trip destination to the Rubin Museum. We also had the pleasure of being accompanied by our English teacher Ms. Hibbert and our Fine Art teacher Dr. Sieunarine.I am sure you all agree that the learning experience was phenomenal. It started with Ms. Sangay Choden who is the WEAVER-IN-RESIDENCE, and a master weaver from the village of Khoma in Northeastern Bhutan. We had the honor of watching Ms. Choden weave a Kira. "Kira is an intricately woven and embroidered silk piece of cloth used as a skirt in Bhutanese traditional dress."
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We would like to thank our Principal, Ms. Nieto, Ms. Boulamali, Ms. Serrano, and Ms. Lasky for facilitating the field trip. We would also like to thank Ms. Elizabeth Cintron, the group visit host at the Rubin museum for welcoming and accommodating us.
18 comments:
I learned many things at the Ruben museum.
I learned that most of the weavingshad a door at the bottom so students can mentally go through it.
Each one of the weavings had a customized silk cover to pretect the tapestry.
Sidarko is the founder of Buddhism.
EmelyT.
The three facts that I learn while I was in the field trip were the following:
1) I learned that the tapestry were hand made.
2) The tapestry had pictures of there Gods.
3)They use animals fat and skin and warm water to make there paint.
Alicia .M.
*All the kira's that they make have a "Door" that opens up the art.
*There were many godesses that represented somehting different like for example there was a god for compation.
*Most kira's are threaded out of gold.
Three facts that Ilearned at the Rubins Museum were:
1.They used to create stories of the Buhdis past lives and a good dead that he did during that life.
2.Every pattern and design that they did was/were done specificly for a purpouse.
3.The artifacts that they have, some might look alike but they have different meanings(like more than two arms)
-Yiret M.
During our visit to the Rubins museum i learned alot about how important the tapestry were. I also learned about the weaving of the kira which is a special type of fabric silk used to create beutiful peices of art.
Dominique E.
Our trip to the Rubin Museum was phonamenal. We learned that unfortenately we cannot take pictures of the art that the museum does not own. Also, Monks visit the museum once a day to perfrom a ritual to glorify the museum as a religious place. finallu, they have artist who paint many pieces based on old triditional buddhist art. I would recommend for you to go to the Rubin Museum because its fukll of culture and magnificant pieces of art that you would enjoy.
At the trip i learned about the Chinese Paintings from Tibet. The two paitnings that we saw was made in in the 18th and 19th century. Most of the paintings considered a "door". Which was like opening the door to the picture. The pictures that was made also was used for teachings. I thought it was cool seeing Ms.Sangay Choden weaving a kira. Some paintings was huge. Like the last one we saw was Big but also beautiful.
siqnedx_____anisa____
Our trip to the Rubin Museum was great! I had a wonderful time with my teachers and classmates. I saw a lot of fine pieces that I enjoy seeing.One of my favorite art pieces was Bodhisattva of Compassion.It was a picture of a god who helps people around the world with any problems they might have. His main point was to have peace in the society.He was given 1,000 hands on each side and 5 heads so that he could hear everyone's situations.
I really recommend this museum to all students that are interested in knowing about Bodhisattva and other different pictures of his life.
J.Sarmiento
1. i learned that the tapestry was made with gold.
2. it takes a lot of hard work and patince to make the textile.
3. the sculptures of the budahs are either made from bronze or wood.The bronze sculputres are hollow so that they could fill it with things like prays or ashes from a body then they close is with a base peace. with the wood they drill a hole in it and fill it with little things then plug it up.
Yatice O.
Our trip to the Rubin Museum was phonamenal. We learned that unfortenately we cannot take pictures of the art that the museum does not own. Also, Monks visit the museum once a day to perfrom a ritual to glorify the museum as a religious place. finallu, they have artist who paint many pieces based on old triditional buddhist art. I would recommend for you to go to the Rubin Museum because its fukll of culture and magnificant pieces of art that you would enjoy.
Roselys S.
Our trip to the Rubin Museum was great! I had a wonderful time with my teachers and classmates. I saw a lot of fine pieces that I enjoy seeing.One of my favorite art pieces was Bodhisattva of Compassion.It was a picture of a god who helps people around the world with any problems they might have. His main point was to have peace in the society.He was given 1,000 hands on each side and 5 heads so that he could hear everyone's situations.
I really recommend this museum to all students that are interested in knowing about Bodhisattva and other different pictures of his life.
Jocelyn S.
The three facts that I've learned during our field trip experience to the Rubin's Museum:
.The Dragon's Gift was work of monasteries and temples of bhutan.
.Four Armed Avalokiteshava:
Avalokiteshava is an emonation of Amitabh, the buddha of infinite light;who appears on the crown of the wood figure.
.The four armed Avalokiteshvara was made of wood, gilt, and lacquered, with cold and pigments Talakha Gona, thimpu
-LaShawn P.
On October 15th, 2008 Our Computer design class went on a trip to the Rubins Museum. The tour guide had told us that they have to pray twice a day . they do these special dance. they also believe in one god witch is budda.We had leard that thier art work was not made sitting down and they would draw their artwork thier. they mostly medate
going to the Rubins Museam was a great experience. i learned so many things...
1)i learned that weaving a kira by hand takes up to 3 months to compleate it!!
2)monks do rituals in the museam
3)every painting has a story thats has to do with it or tells a story
The three facts that I learned:
#1- The flowers shown on the wall tapestries were called lotus flowers.
#2- On one of the tapestries that I saw there was gold that outlined the leaves and flowers. The gold was real gold thread. It was there to make the tapestry more valuable.
#3- The jewelery the gods wore were to show there inere good.
Elizabeth P
1 I learned about Shatarakshita from the 19 century and I learned that of the bottom of the work there was a door of the painting at the bottom.
2 I learned about the all seeing lord with Elen faces and one thousand hands from the 18 century.
3 I learned that he made a promise to help everyone and that he failed so the god gave him another chance and he gave him Elen faces and one thousand hands.
I learned many great things at the Rubins museum. For example the first thing that i learned was that Tapestry was ment to be viewed from the ground up because the students would have to start from the bottom in order to learn the meaning of the whole picture. The next thing i learned was that most of the tapestry paintings had a weavingshed door at the bottom of them because the students would have to mentally go through the door in order to learn the teachings of the picture.The last thing i learned was that the artist who made the paintings would use animal fats and skins and combined them with warm water to make there paint.
Alyssa R.
Visting the Rubin Museum i learned
that makeing tapestry takes an enormous amount of skill and dedication.I also learned they use gold in there tapestry to make it more valuable.My group tored The Dragon's Gift and learned that buddhas were valued at the highest.
Henese.M
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