Study trip: Art museum
Today the students that have Art (bild/estetisk verksamhet) as a subject went on a study trip together. We went to Gent to visit a Design museum. Firstly there was a 1.5 hour busride to get to Gent on which we received tasks in groups of about 4. Our task was to read about Kaj Frank, the artist/sculptor whose works where exhibited in the museum. Some other people got to read about Coca Cola since that was another part of the exhibition.
On this trip we were not only Upper secondary students but classes 8-10 joined us on this trip. So when we arrived at the museum we got some time to prepare short presentations about different parts of the exhibition, with the help of the information we received at the bus as well as information found in the exhibition. After about half an hour it was time for lunch so we all went back to the bus to receive our lunch bags with sandwiches, fruit, juice and a waffle.
We ate our lunch outside, since the weather is a lot warmer here, and then returned to the museum. When we got there it was time for us to have our presentations. Classes 8-10 divided into two groups and so we held two presentations about Kaj Frank. I think it went well and all of the people in our group had a lot of interesting things to tell of some of his work.
He was very controversial at the time he began designing and creating houseware, Finnish artist. His most famous things were created in the 1960s and similar things now exist in most of our homes, we now find them normal and common. He realised that there was a need for simplicity in objects we use at home since many people were moving into apartments and did not have the same storage space. This is why Kaj Franks products were so great, they were often stackable and easy to store, also easy to clean. He won the Grand Prix for his collection and 21.5 million products were sold in Finland and other countries, there is also a prestigeous design award in Finland named after him. This year it is a hundred years since he was born which is why the exhibition is moving around the world. This is just some of the information we presented at the exhibition.
When we had held our presentations it was time for sketching. We made sketches of some of his things and also drew our own versions of these objects, inspired by his main ideas of design. When we were done it was time to go home and many people fell asleep on the bus ride back home. All in all this trip was interesting and I learn't a lot about Finnish design that I did not know before.
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