Museum Essay

Comparing with traditional museum such as the BMA, Glenstone Foundation is a private collected gallery that shows single-artist installations and long-term exhibitions. It reflects from Foster’s explained how Charles Wright transformed Dia from the old traditions after he took over the Dia. Geographically, the gallery is far from the city and neighborhood, located in the founder's private land which is not easy to connect with the general audience and probably not really accessible for a…

When given the opportunity to get outside of a book for a class I usually take it. When a trip to Balboa Park in San Diego, California is also included the choice is that much easier. For this essay I visited The San Diego Museum of Art to look for a painting that matched the criteria of a painting from 1800-1880 that illustrates realism or romanticism. I came across an oil on canvas painting of everything I have learned what realism art is suppose to look like. The painting was of a man on a…

I was given the chance to visit the Boise Art Museum recently, and was pleasantly surprised at the artwork on display. As well as the various stories behind them. The artwork was separated into different exhibitions and galleries for the viewing. Including the Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo Collection, Tall Tales, Laura Heit: Earth and Sky, etc. However, the exhibition Minidoka: Artist as a Witness caught my attention in particular. It was based around…

Neighbor of Kimble is another classic museum, which is as impressive as Kimble. This was my second visit to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and I would gladly like to go back again and again. This visit was not as exciting as my visit to Kimble due to the fact that I was already familiar with the building. However, I learned a lot and was able to look at art works with more knowledge. I was ignorant towards the works during my last visit, but this visit made me understand the values of…

The Smithsonian museums, some of the most boring times of my childhood. When we first got assigned this assignment to go to a Smithsonian museum I was like why? When I was small my mother used to take my sister and me every summer to the museums. After about three years of going we were so bored of the museums because we had seen all of them and everything they had to offer. However this time around it was a whole different experience and one of the most amazing adventures in my life. I decided…

Caleb Richey 11-23-15 Ancient Art 101 Professor Sandra Johnson Jade Cong: Bowers Museum The Jade Cong is a detailed piece of art that is composed of two different colors—a grey and a green sort of color (jade). The green section of this piece is circular with a square area on the sides of the “Cong”. In addition, this circular section of the piece represents the heavens while the square part represents the planet Earth. This is a solid piece of art that is about an inch thick and fully designed…

The Lakeland art Museum is the focal point of my report, where I enjoyed many paintings, photographs, and sculptures of many artists both renowned and local. Examples of such would be Pablo Picasso, Francisco De Goya, Hung Liu, and many more. Although the first to catch my eye was that of Liu’s work Working Woman: Millstone 1999, an etching with soft colors, varnish, as well as paint. It depicts two work-worn older Chinese woman operating a millstone the image also depicted red kanji, fruit, and…

As I visited the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday October 29, 2016 I had the opportunity to visually see many different types of artworks. This was my first visit to an art museum. The museum collects and houses hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artist. There were many different types of artwork including painting, prints, sculptures and photography. The art museum was smaller than what I thought it would be and reminded me of an art exhibit but…

of remembrance, or bearing witness, and of education must continue.” The previous quote was stated by Holocaust survivor, Dan Gillerman. This was the thought of everyone who was involved in the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. During the year of 1978 the museum began as an idea, that is now visited by 2 million people annually. The job of the Holocaust Memorial Council was to create a living memorial to the 6 million Jews and millions of other victims who died. Jews have been…

Pasted In my museum, I want to have a historical theme to it that shows individuals back then, it was socially acceptable to either straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersexed, or whatever. I would like to have a theme that shows the rise and fall, and now the acceptation of the normal gay lifestyles. First, before I get to the artists, I want my visitors to be artists; I want them to take pictures of themselves and place them on the huge walls at the beginning of the of the museum opening…