Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

a) Describe the main differences between a Commercial Gallery, Public Gallery, Artist Run Initiative and curated online Gallery. A gallery is a space allocated specifically for the display and exhibition of works of art. Commercial galleries are exclusive art spaces created for a specific selection of (usually) well known and established artists, displays can run for long periods of time, they do not hold permanent ‘collections’, either do ARI’s the main difference between commercial…

When I first got into art I was in 10th grade. There was an exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery featuring Brooklyn street artist work; KAWS and I wanted to check his work in person because I never got the chance to. The exhibition featured his famous statues, “ALONG THE WAY” and paintings he’s done. KAWS is known for his whimsical cartoonish style of art. KAW is also affiliated in the street wear world after he launched his clothing label, Original Fake. He recently had his “ALONG THE WAY”…

What is art and what art is have been very controversial topics of discussion for centuries. Art is a very opinionated subject, and many people tend to share different views when it comes to art. To this day, we still do not have one solid, universally agreed upon definition of art. This makes it very hard to decide what is art, and what is not, considering we do not have a perfectly correct guideline to follow. Philosophers and artists have been sharing their beliefs on the argument of art for…

René Magritte is a surrealist artist who has produced a reputation for his “clever and intriguing imagery” using basic designs and ordinary symbolism. Maybe viewers for the most part got caught by his The Son of Man painting, but may not know the painter by name. Rather would recognize the iconic painting and the repetitive topic and theme in another depiction by this artist. There's considerably more to know about Magritte and how the painting fits into his works as a whole. René François…

Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, cite fear as a factor as important to their process as a passion for truth, particularly fear of revealing the self. Pressfield goes on to state, “Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scare we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it” (Pressfield 89). However, with contemporary establishments of art as product, personal components of…

opportunity to express themselves in a variety of media creations - and be sure to check out the art in the restrooms! Baltimore's premier 'old line' art museum is the Baltimore Museum of Art, located at 10 Art Museum Drive (about a 25 minute drive from downtown). Boasting an excellent Matisse collection, the BMA also has several Picassos and Monets, with its new contemporary wing home to several Andy Warhol works, including his "Last Supper".� Designed by John Russell Pope. who was the…

graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the rules of art have changed and the conditions under which art…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

considered an outlaw in the classical music world having much of his works of pop music inflections performed in classical recitals and concerts. Research by musicologist Paul Janssen led him to support Ter Veldhuis the “Andy Warhol of music” as much of his music is a reflection of pop-art culture (as much of his music take from television shows, hip-hop, and street culture) and the composer’s disdain for the separation of high-brow and low-brow musical…

Thursdays 3:30pm - 4:45pm Paper 2: Felix Gonzalez-Torres In 1917, Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the readymade by picking the perfect urinal while Andy Warhol followed him by mass producing Brillo boxes in 1964. Both artists turned the path of art world and updated the way people once viewed art. With a heavy influence on the future of art, it is no surprise that artists after them built a foundation off of their ideas. One of these artists include Felix Gonzalez Torres, a Cuban American…