The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early 1900s from Vermont, accompanied by their elderly parents and preceded by a millionaire uncle, Henry Putnam. The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Masters. Initial paintings were donated to San Diego s Fine Arts Gallery.…
When Peggy came to New York in 1941, she brought with her, not just her family but, all of her 170 artworks by 67 artists. At the time, Peggy’s art collection found a temporary home in the Hale House, Peggy’s residential space, until 1942, when Art of This Century opened its doors to the public in October of that same year. The art forum space, that was neither a museum nor a gallery but a fusion of the two did not just permanently complemented the aesthetics of Peggy’s art collection with its avant-garde design but also hosted temporal exhibitions of paintings made by young, then unknown, American artists. It was at this innovative art space that European modern masters were juxtaposed to young American action painters for the first time in…
Public art is all around us, and when you take a moment to look around you’ll find some amazing pieces. While walking around downtown there is always one mural that catches my eye every time. Located on the back side of the Burton Cummings Theatre (formerly known as the Walker Theatre, 364 Smith Street.) is an untitled piece by Winston Leathers (1932-2004). Maybe it’s the vibrant colours, or the fact that I spent just over 14 hours waiting outside the theatre two years ago waiting to see my favourite band perform. Either way, I can’t help but do a double take when I happen to walk by.…
The intended audience for this essay may be researchers, art historians, gallery curators, writers, art critics, photographers and other specialists in the fields of art, history, culture and photography. Through its “exploration of temporality, history, narrative, memory and forgetting, situated identity, contemporary technology”, Bean’s collection interrogates what roles photography currently plays and what roles it will be playing in the future, by emphasizing on “the temporal experience of the photographic object in relation to contemporary photo-based art in Canada” (Bean 11). Through discussing “the use of the before-and-after photograph in the representation of technological catastrophe and change” (Fitzpatrick 53), Fitzpatrick answers Bean’s question by arguing that photography plays three roles, post documentations, palimpsests of oblivion,…
The Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, located on the East Campus features various works of art. The exhibit features many artists such as Brad Craw, Linda Salmon, Randy Crimmel, Randy Kirskey, Todd McClintock, Christian Hali, Tinna Savini, and Ben Jackson. The artists have their own different styles but their works of art feel like they are a team working together to give the viewers different perspectives. The basic layout of the exhibit shows the different styles of works of art in different sections of a large room. The works of art have labels next to them stating the artist's name, the title of the art, the medium, and the year it was made.…
In contemporary practice the Canadian artist Jeff Wall takes photography that are strongly influenced by artworks from the past, by Manet, Hokusai, Ingres,…
For my museum paper assignment, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum to find an art piece. In the museum, I found an interesting art piece made by Hans Siebert von-Heister. The art piece is called “Anger”, it was made in Germany, 1920. Its oil on canvas and the scale is Frame: 31 x 26 x 1 ½, 24 ½ x 19in. This art piece uses some of formal elements and design principles to make the art very interesting to examine.…
Established in 1941, the Norton Museum of Art holds 7,000 pieces in which features three main regions of art; American, Chinese, and European. Located in West Palm Beach Florida, this museum holds all forms of art work from paintings to sculptures to even ancient Chinese artifacts. The building was separated into three different levels each with their own unique layout to best exemplify the culture from which the artwork originated from. Starting with the first level, loud, cluttered yet beautiful held photographs, drawings, and contemporary art from the Modern Era of American culture. The second level obtained Chinese sculptures and Ancient artifacts from the Shang Dynasty all the way to the Qing Dynasty.…
Chelsea is also one of the most prominent art centers in the country. As a matter of fact, a plethora of artists of all sorts migrate to New York City in hopes of succeeding and flourishing identical to a numerous amount of artists before. When exploring Chelsea, Halle’s observations are prevalent in the neighborhood. In Chelsea, the audience of the commercial art galleries located there enjoy “gallery hopping” from one gallery to the other in order to experience what each gallery has to offer them. Galleries are often set up in clusters in order to accommodate for the “gallery hopping” audience.…
Part 1: Dallas Museum of Art “Power Play” 1. Spiritual. Mesoamerican peoples (artist unknown). Dog with human mask. Late Formative period, c. 100 B.C.E – C.E. 200.…
Art is a form of expression and communication using virtual languages. Every artwork has content which can tell the viewers an important message or concept. In The Dallas Art Museum, there are several types of art collected from all over the world that is able to showcase different conceptual themes such as sexuality and gender role of women in society. Since gender role and sexuality is a universal theme, many artworks from the museum exhibits this message. For example, analyzing the art work of Emile Bernard’s and Felix Edouard Vallotton, both artist is able to express the role of women through their works.…
My friends and me went to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary last Friday in order to fulfill this online assignment. The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary is consisted of four parts. All of the artworks in the first part of this museum is focused on the women and the power. The whole space has been filled with a variety of artworks. A world map filled one of the wall and a series of cloth artworks filled one of the other walls.…
Art from the Renaissance is most realistic compared to any other art. During my trip to the St. Louis Art Museum I look through hundreds of paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque period. My favorite painting I looked at from this period at the museum was Peasants Dancing in a Tavern by Adriacn van Ostade. The Renaissance and Baroque art section stood out the most to me at the museum. When I first arrived to the St. Louis Art Museum I went down to the first level where most of the art was from ancient cultures.…
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art consists of an abundant amount of unique and interesting pieces of art. While touring the museum, I found several pieces of art in which were rather amazing at how they were created; one could tell a lot of thought and hours of dedication were put into each piece. While there were so many pieces to choose from, I chose two pieces which stood out to me the most to discuss in my paper, one is The Jackleg Testament, Part One Jack and Eve: A Woodcut Motion Picture and the second one is Still Life with Papayas and Clementines; both of which are richly unique in their own way. The Jackleg Testament, Part One Jack and Eve: A Woodcut Motion Picture is exactly what is stated; it is a movie that is in fact an hour and two minutes long.…
William Wilson takes his readers on a guided tour of an undisclosed art collection in his monthly contribution to the Anglo-African Magazine, the “Afric-American Picture Gallery.” Wilson published this series in 1859, when the United States was on the cusp of the Civil War and when slavery was the issue of the times. Wilson’s picture gallery contains descriptions of art objects all pertaining to the idea of slavery. This gallery is intriguing because Wilson does not mention the location of the gallery or the names of the artists whose work is featured. Pictures five and six— “The Underground Railroad”— are particularly intriguing because of the secrecy surrounding the operations of the underground as well as the unique way in which the images are depicted.…