Art museum

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. Ceramic. Dallas Museum of Art. Hollowed ceramic statue depicting a hairless dog wearing a mask. Gifted to the DMA by the Eugene McDermott Foundation and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated. The dog is thought to be a tepescuintli, which was raised for food in Mesoamerica. Dogs are known to be used for spiritual reasons in the state…

W. H. Auden is a very well respected author in both American literature and also British Literature. One of his very famous pieces of writing is the poem In the Museum of Beautiful Art, as it is translated in English, is a very famous poem that is written about a painting. The painting might have been even more famous than the poem, it was a painting called The Fall of Icarus. Icarus is a Greek character that had a father as an inventor, unfortunately Icarus got in some trouble and ended up…

Do you think that a museum is the appropriate place to display religious art? How did the stories of violence and breakage affect how you feel about the display of relics from multiple religions in one facility or building? Would you visit this museum or one like it? Yes I believe that a museum is an appropriate place to display religious art. Quite honestly I don’t know why anyone would have a problem with it. Museums are made for just this purpose, to give the attendee a since of history, be…

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…

I visited the Tampa museum of art and discovered some very interesting and beautiful works of art. My favorite painting I came across was Lupins and Foxgloves on Indian Creek, Painted by Carolyn Brady in 1988. It was placed on the museum as a gift from the Bank of Tampa, in memory of Judith R Blanchard. It’s a watercolor painting on just plain paper. Depicting both land and sea shows how artists perceive and portray the natural world around them. From romantic depictions of the American…

the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Where I had the opportunity to take part in the teen sketch club. Emotions are an instinctive state of mind deriving from one 's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. It’s one of the few things that all humans have in…

I chose to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my mother because it is one of the largest museums of the world and one of New York’s most visited attractions. It’s famous for its exhibitions and art collections. It’s so huge that a person could spend a whole week exploring the galleries. In order to get to the Metropolitan Museum first we took the 10 number bus to Journal Square via JFK Boulevard. Then we took the World Trade Center train form Journal Square path station to WTC station in…

This art museum by architect Frank Lloyd Wright was opened to the public on October 21, 1959. The Guggenheim museum has a major difference with other art galleries and museums which are in the same category. The mobility in this museum is significantly designed with a close relation to the presentation of the work of art. The unique design of this museum takes the visitor to the top of a spiral-ramped building topped by a large skylight. The visitor would start walking down on a system of…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…

When I went to the Denver Art museum, I wittiness many wonderful and fascinating art pieces, but the two that really took my eye was the Lotus crate by Zhang Daqian in 1963 and the Dutch created by Maria van Oosterwijck in 1670s. But what’s more fascinating is there life stories. Maria van Oosterwijck was born in South Holland, Netherlands August 20, 1630 and died November 12, 1693. She was the daughter of mother and father, Jacobus van Oosterwijck and Adriana van Linschoten. Her father was a…