Art Experience

In my visit I went to the museum Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on ca pus and I found a really interesting gallery. The artist was Elizabeth Keith and all the paintings were about the oriental culture. There were several different paintings. The first ones that I looked were all about people. About an old man, a woman, a daughter, a mother with her child or two friends that seem that they were chatting. I thin that the author is trying to express by the paintings how are the oriental people, how they look alike. Then I saw some paintings about landscapes. They were really nice but irreal, like fantasy. Some of the landscapes had waterfalls with tigers, dragons and kind of oriental angels on them. The last paintings that I saw were about two houses. At first I thought it was the same house, because they look alike, but they were in different parts of the day: one of them was I think in the afternoon, and it was all snowed and the other one was at night. Then I looked better and I realized that they were two totally different houses.
The name of the author is Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956). She went for the first time on her life to Tokyo to visit her sister and she stayed there because he loved the oriental culture. When she was in Tokyo she made several visits to Korea. The first time that she went there an important independence demonstration was taking part in Korea. And I think that in all her art work she tries to express how is the people in Korea in those though times. Also she felt impressed with the beautiful landscapes of this country so she did some of the paintings of these landscapes. Her work was well received in Japan even though there were problems between Japan and Korea. Even one of her paintings about the house that I was talking before became a woodblock because the people in Japan thought that this could be popular as souvenir for foreign visitors. This painting was called East Gate Seoul. In every one of her paintings I think that Keith is trying to express her experience in Korea and how were the people and the landscapes.