Art Institute of Chicago

Cooking, and the Table. Columbia University Press, 2012. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mont16786. Montanari, the author of multiple books on the subject of food in the middle ages, is a professor of medieval and medieval food history at the Institute of Paleography and Medieval Studies, University of Bologna. In this book,…

Students in my 8th grade class will make posters to protest violence in Chicago. Students will explore Elizabeth Catlett and Leopoldo Méndez art work. Students will identify how the artist work is related or dissimilar to their own ideas. Students will explore the principles of design and be able to describe how the choices of tools/technologies and processes are used to create specific effects in the arts. 7. Objectives: As a result of discussing, demonstrating…

Wonderful Master of Art, Grant Wood's Grant Woods is an amazing artist which I failed to see before browsing through this book. Grant woods has a very elegant way of painting art. By making his art appear realistic his art is much more complex than you might think. Figuring out what artist to pick was extremely difficult. Once the painting of American Gothic came up I suddenly knew which artist I wanted to study. Covering every page of the book with beautiful and very austere his art makes…

This research paper will identify and point out highlights of Jane Addams uncovering an in-depth explanation of the importance of her and also the impact Ms. Addams had on the first third of the twentieth century. Born on the 6th of September, 1860, Jane Addams would win recognition worldwide as a “pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and an internationalist” making her the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children.…

and he inspires children of all ages. Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Walt was the fourth of five children of Elias and Flora Disney. Walt had four brothers and one sister. When Walt was five the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. Walt soon began to love to draw, Walt’s first few sketches were farm animals. Walt sold drawing to his family and friends, he also attended art classes. A few years later the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Walt…

the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece of artwork is part of a gallery on display titled The New Contemporary. It features an extraordinary amount of art works ranging from the years of 1945 to today. Fahlstrom’s piece features ink and tempera on wood along with twenty cutouts on vinyl. In the early 1960’s he began to make what he called “variable” paintings, in which a figure’s limbs or other discrete objects were segmented and jointed. This made them into art that could be…

The piece was created in New York in 1919. The painting was created by using oil paint on a canvas. There was no texture added, so the piece seems to be quite smooth. The canvas is 35 x 29 inches. It is displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of curved lines that create oval-like shapes that originate from the bottom right corner of the canvas. Your eyes tend to…

The art 21 episode I watched was called “humor”. It really showcased some interesting and peculiar artists; the third artist that was shown in the episode was Raymond Pettibon. He was born in Tucson, Arizona on June 16th, 1957. Before he made a career for himself as a professional artist he was a high school teacher, but realized that art was his passion and thought choosing art was a better career choice. In Pettibon’s art it consists of drawing and writing, and he likes to have pieces that…

Wisconsin. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives Welles, growing up was hard on Orson his parents divorced and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father became an alcoholic after he made a ton of money inventing the bicycle lamp, after that he stopped working. Leaving his mother to try and support herself and her child working as a pianist during lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her oldest son Dickie was institutionalized…

Analogy I As part of my Introduction to Art class, a visit to an art museum was required. I decided to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. This was my fist time in an art museum in the United States. Previously, I visited an art museum in Mexico, but my experience was completely different. In the Art Institute, I saw many different types and forms of art. Many of the pieces I saw during my visit to this museum were by authors mentioned during class including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jeff…