Art museums and galleries in London

Jane Addams is an early leader in woman’s suffrage and a pioneer settlement worker in social reform in the United States. She is an exceptional woman who advanced the welfare of working class for adults and children, by political advocacy and by providing practical opportunities. She wanted to help immigrants with education and to have a better life in the city. She believed that women should make their voices heard in legislation and should have the right to vote. Addams studied the effects of…

Art Investigation Describe and Analyze: Starry Night is one of Vincent Van Gogh, a French post-impressionist, many famous paintings and is also the most well-known. This painting was created in 1889 and is an oil on canvas landscape painting. According to Wikipedia Vincent Van Gogh painted this painting while in an asylum and is actually a view out of his window. Today, Starry Night is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York and has been since 1941. The night sky background was…

To do this, I often take fortnightly trips to museums around London, so as to develop cultural appreciation for the growth of humanity and society. My experience from the Saatchi Gallery in particular stuck with me. During my visit, it showcased an exhibition called ‘Premonition: Ukrainian art now.’ Social unrest began in November 2013, and was the basis of inspiration for many Ukrainian artists. The exhibition featured…

things too, he would draw the bone, and sometimes muscular, structure of them before painting on skin and clothes. This painting has another interesting aspect; there is two of them, a version in the Louvre in Paris, and one in the National Gallery in London. No one really knows if da Vinci really did both. They are still both very…

as both the producers and consumers of this new domestic culture, a wealth of literary sources on decorating the home and the need for feminine spaces of creativity aimed towards a predominately female audience. As someone raised in Victorian-era London, this domestic culture emerged as a new aesthetic outlet for Vanessa Bell. Her works produced between the years of 1910-1915, directly reflect this marked social change. Consider works such as Conversation (1913-1916) (Figure 1), which portrays…

Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry, assessed the situation with arts funding in broad terms. He claimed: "Traditionally, public funds have been a key issue, not just in broadening the public scope and range of access and participation (including the training of artists), but also a sector of sustainability, under the broad rubric of public good." Today, acquisition of public funding became one of the most problematic aspects of arts management. Governmental support for the arts is…

The article “the history of American graffiti” by PBS News Hours talks about how graffiti started around 1970s in America. It also talks about how graffiti went from this act that was forbidden to do around the city to something that now has its own museum. Also in this article, it talks about how young people started graffiti originating from a high school guy trying to get a girl. In an article called “ New York City’s War on Graffiti”, Adam Mansbach writes “those stakes become clearer when…

Theoretically, the term 'Public Art ' (municipal or community art) signifies any work of art which is designed for and located in a space available to the general populace, from a public square to a enclosure within a building freely accessible to the general public. In practice, however, a significant amount of such works of art end up tucked away in storage, or in private governmental workplaces. A lot of the public art, which has fortunately evaded being classified as antiquity, contains a…

statement from Robert Hannaford concisely encapsulates his approach to art. Throughout his artwork, it is easy to see this approach through his quest to understand the people and environments around him. Robert Hannaford is one of Australia’s most renowned and influential portrait artists. The Art Gallery of South Australia has curated an exhibit of the artist’s portraiture and drawing works. Robert Hannaford’s impact upon Australian Art can hardly be overlooked. A regular Archibald Prize…

The Victorian Era was a time of great economic, social, and political changes. Queen Victoria ruled England from 1837 to 1876 and this time was known as the Victorian Era. She ruled during a time when people disliked royalty about how they governed their land, but she is still credited with bringing respect back to the throne. Many of the things that changed for people during the Victorian Era is still prevalent today in the daily life, social class, and working life. First, daily life was…