Art museum

When I think about what I believe to be visual art I am usually drawn to pieces that make me have some sort of emotional response. This emotional response could be from the use of colors or the subject matter used in the work. For example, Van Gogh’s Corridor in the Asylum shows a long hallway with one figure standing in the back. This almost empty corridor brings to mind a sense of loneliness that Van Gogh might have been feeling during his time there. His use of muddy colors also gives the…

The Hirshhorn Museum: Rings of Adventure The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has always generated conversation about its choices. Even after it had just been constructed, its architectural choices were the subject of critique. Two days after the museum opened in 1974, Ada Louise Huxtable, of The New York Times, gave the following review: “[The building] is known around Washington as the bunker or gas tank, lacking only gun emplacements or an Exxon sign… It totally lacks the essential…

On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the…

Summary Speech: University Archaeology Museum I want to thank you all for joining us at this press conference today. I greatly appreciate each and everyone one of you for taking the time out of your day to come here. This community has already displayed its dedication and support you all have for the University Archaeology Museum by showing up here today. My Background If you haven’t already heard, I am not the new director of the Archaeology Museum and would like to wholeheartedly thank the…

influence on the ways we do things. However there has been some controversy about where these artifacts should be held. Should archaeologists leave the items in their original location or place them in museums? Looking at both options, it is clear we should preserve the artifacts and keep them in museums. Therefore, it allows scientific research for these artifacts and saves the memories from them. Additionally they will be protected from organizations such as ISIS and from decaying. For…

has certain illnesses/disabilities, or how he made some choices, that he was not a very important person nor a very great role model. But many people don’t think the same thing, Vincent is a good role model for many people and has major importance in art even to this day. Some might say that Vincent is not a good role model because of some questionable things he has done in the past. Like cut off his ear or buy paint instead of food. But, one way Vincent is a role model is how Vincent is…

Tempera vs. Oil Painting One of the oldest mediums that were used commonly by the artists were tempera and oil paint. Although these materials are used to paint very photo-realistic images, they have many differences. Tempera is mostly used to create a very opaque painting that needs to be made fairly quickly. This painting medium is consists of colored pigments mixed with a binding agent, an egg yolk. Tempera is an incredibly fast drying material and acts as an extremely long lasting method of…

great from their talents. There is no single talent when well used, cannot bring great returns to the individual.Most stars in the world have placed great work on their talents to reach where they are today. Major stars have talents in leadership, art, and athletics among others. Salvador Dali is one great painter over history that has shown surrealism through his artwork ‘the persistence of the memory.’ Surrealism was a cultural movement that started in the 1920s. Salvador Dali was born in 1931…

Raphael's The Alba Madonna depicts a variety of warm and cool colors throughout the painting. The blues and whites of the sky and river shows a deep contrast in temperature when comparing the warm pinks and oranges on the woman's dress. As Raphael started on the background, he outlined the mountain tops with light brush strokes and demonstrated the tactic of atmospheric perspective. When Raphael reached the top portion of his painting, the tint of the blue hues became lighter. As the viewer can…

painting was different. Was it the subject matter? Perhaps it was the unusual use of color. Paul Gauguin’s “Tahitian Women on the Beach” is a very complex piece of art. It took quite a bit of observation on my part to pin down exactly what caused such a strong reaction. I consider myself to be quite creative, but when it comes to art, I am at a loss. This painting features a Tahitian landscape with two women in it. The women are sitting on a beach with the ocean behind them. A dark, blue sky…