A. R. Gurney

239. The Crossing. Bill Viola. 1996 C.E. video/sound installation. Bill Viola’s The Crossing, created in 1996 C.E., is a room-sized video installation that is made up of a large two-sided screen onto which two video sequences are projected at the same time. They each open in the same fashion: having a male figure walking slowly towards the front of the camera, his body dramatically lit from above, appearing to glow against the black background. After some time, he pauses and stands completely…

The kimbell museum located in Fort worth texas, widely recognized for its different art pieces it houses. The kimbell hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library. With the Kimbell having an impressive art collection, the Kimbell may need a more impressive building to house everything. But before we get into the building we need to know the people who designed it. Louis Kahn was born in Pärnu, Estonia, on February…

Dale Chihuly’s installations do not only appear in Museum’s. Two Chandeliers were set up at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Dr. Jonas Salk, the founder of the Institute, commissioned Chihuly, because he believed that art and science coincide. These chandeliers were specifically designed to hang between the towers, bordering the courtyard. Each chandelier contained a different color-scheme, but both were vivid colors that could serve as an inspiration to the…

The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture"…

This sculpture is composed entirely of a series of sets of four vertical metal beams, connected horizontally by shorter beams, along the museum passageways in the fashion of a ramp. Corresponding structures on opposite sides of the passages converge near the ceiling at an acute angle, creating what appears to be the perimeter of a triangle without a base, when viewing from the mouth of the artwork. These frameworks are visually similar to elongated strips of windows, due to the quadrilaterals of…

Since I was about six years old, I’ve had an interest in architecture and interior design. After going to see a Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I fell in love with the strange shape of the building rather than the ones in the modern artist’s paintings. A few years later, I went to Fallingwater and I bought myself Frank Lloyd Wright’s biography. For Christmas that year, I received the Lego kits for Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. I have been hooked on how modern Frank…

In hearing wonderful comments about the Kohler Arts Center’s support for the Arts, is why I choose this place to visit for my field investigation. The history of the Kohler Arts center starts with the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, which was created in 1959 with Mrs. Walter J Kohler as its first board member. In 1966, the Kohler family homestead was gifted to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation. With this homestead as a starting point and a large expansion, the center was established in 1967. This…

Gerald Scarfe was born on June 1st, 1936. He is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He also worked as an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker. His work includes graphics from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Hercules. He is married to Jane Asher and they three children together. After a short period at the Royal College of Arts, he established himself as a satirical cartoonist and still does satirical cartoons today. Even though he his most known for his…

stands an iconic art museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1959, the museum flares as an expression of modern artistic construction. The museum permanently houses “world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, as well as some of the greatest 20th-century paintings by famous painters from all over the world” . The museum was named after the philanthropist, Solomon R. Guggenheim whose foundation…

From a young age, children are asked what they would like to be when they grow up. For many seven-year-olds, the answers are very widespread from veterinarians or lawyers to infeasible careers like superheroes or mermaids. According to my mother, when I was very young, my dream was to become a taxi driver. However, from as far back as I can remember, my unwavering response was always, “I want to be a doctor.” Although the ideas of which type of doctor I would be changed from year to year, the…