The Philbrook Trip
I am not regularly seen at museums and would not say going to them is my favorite thing to do. This fall my art appreciation teacher, Mrs. Trotter, announced that we would be going on a field trip. We were going to the Philbrook Museum of Art. The only reason I was excited was because I had gone before and knew how impressive it was. We went to study the architecture of the house and the many Renaissance paintings that are shown there. Most of the class was able to attend, and I think we all were impressed.
The Philbrook Museum of Art was originally a house. Built in 1927 for Waite Phillips, a rich oilman, the house is ornate. Its most beautiful feature is the garden in the back overlooked by a massive terrace. The front of the house is unimpressive. Many elements were designed after buildings in Italy. The house is roofed with terra cotta tiles, and when it was given to the city of Tulsa in 1938 they had to buy the tiles off the roof of another house in the neighborhood so that the roof would match when they added on to the building. The original entryway of the house is magnificent. Two large staircases reside on either side of …show more content…
An Italian painter, Giordano was renowned for his speed, even getting a nickname because of it. The chiaroscuro shading in the painting gives it a dramatic air, with the background almost black and the light shining off Christ’s body. The hues of Christ’s skin are pale and somewhat blue, accurately depicting death. The two men lowering him into the grave, and the others in the painting, all are looking away, horrified. The composition of the painting has the far edge of the grave at the bottom of the canvas so that viewers are symbolically standing “in” the grave. This is supposed to represent receiving Christ. “Learning something new everyday is what life is really all about,” a quote in the Philbrook gardern by Thomas Manhart, captures my excitement while learning these things about the
I am not regularly seen at museums and would not say going to them is my favorite thing to do. This fall my art appreciation teacher, Mrs. Trotter, announced that we would be going on a field trip. We were going to the Philbrook Museum of Art. The only reason I was excited was because I had gone before and knew how impressive it was. We went to study the architecture of the house and the many Renaissance paintings that are shown there. Most of the class was able to attend, and I think we all were impressed.
The Philbrook Museum of Art was originally a house. Built in 1927 for Waite Phillips, a rich oilman, the house is ornate. Its most beautiful feature is the garden in the back overlooked by a massive terrace. The front of the house is unimpressive. Many elements were designed after buildings in Italy. The house is roofed with terra cotta tiles, and when it was given to the city of Tulsa in 1938 they had to buy the tiles off the roof of another house in the neighborhood so that the roof would match when they added on to the building. The original entryway of the house is magnificent. Two large staircases reside on either side of …show more content…
An Italian painter, Giordano was renowned for his speed, even getting a nickname because of it. The chiaroscuro shading in the painting gives it a dramatic air, with the background almost black and the light shining off Christ’s body. The hues of Christ’s skin are pale and somewhat blue, accurately depicting death. The two men lowering him into the grave, and the others in the painting, all are looking away, horrified. The composition of the painting has the far edge of the grave at the bottom of the canvas so that viewers are symbolically standing “in” the grave. This is supposed to represent receiving Christ. “Learning something new everyday is what life is really all about,” a quote in the Philbrook gardern by Thomas Manhart, captures my excitement while learning these things about the