Maryland Institute College of Art

American contemporary artist known for his practice of placing every day, ordinary objects in unique installations. Although he got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he obtained his M.F.A., he ended up transferring to the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after visiting and becoming inspired by an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who also attended the Art Institution on Chicago. He stated in an interview, “I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist,...it was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.” Jeff Koons would go on to break records with his art, becoming an iconic contemporary artist with his work everywhere from museums to wraps for racecars.…

painting. The empty space on the left side of the painting compared to the less empty space on the right side help create the unbalanced aspect of the painting. Despite Hopper’s use of contrast, his artwork also includes repetition. He uses a repeated color of red on the buildings in the street and a repeated color of dark blue on the street. Not only are the colors themselves repeated, but the darkness of the colors is repeated throughout the street. In the actual diner, the brightness of color…

hustle and bustle of a Friday Night in Columbia Mo. is ARTlandish Gallery, a small art gallery that allows local artists to showcase their work for the college town. ARTlandish has taken full advantage of the impressive art scene that Columbia boasts, and it has done so in the form of First Friday. ARTlandish sits in the middle of Downtown Columbia, snuggled in between a couple buildings and overlooking E. Walnut Street. ARTlandish has been in Columbia for six years, and was trying to find a…

I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…

iconic 1930 painting American Gothic. Some people today still may not know Grant Wood’s name or even the name of the painting, they always recognize American Gothic when they see it. This painting is known as a classic show of American character. Represented by a farmer and his daughter in front of their gothic styled home. Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1991 in Anamosa, Iowa. When his father died in 1901 Grant and his family moved to Cedar Rapids. He then took art lessons from local…

The Art Institute of Chicago is a Museum and art school located in the Michigan Avenue near Grant Park, across Lake Michigan in Chicago. It is one of the most important art museums of the United States, along with the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has one of the most important permanent collections of paintings of Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the world. Was founded in 1879 and was George Armour its first president. In 1893, the museum was…

shining bright, scorching the skin of locals and tourists gathered around venues in the name of art. On the corner of Fountain Street and Division is the Fountain Street Church. The non-denominational, liberal church holds one of the best venues at ArtPrize. It is a piece of art itself with a tower standing tall above the city. Beautiful stain glass windows emit a feeling of grace and warmth in the images of angels swathed in reds, greens, and yellows. However, looking past the elegant…

The 1860’s and 70’s marked the beginning of the biggest art movement since the Renaissance, Impressionism. In the beginning, paintings in the impressionist style were sharply ridiculed for their “sloppiness” and “disrespect for tradition”. Impressionist artists were banned from exhibiting at the Paris Salon, the largest and greatest art event in the world at the time. This exclusion only fueled the artist’s passion and resolve to show the world the beauty of the new style. Perhaps the most…

In this essay, I will explore what accounting and finance is and why I have chosen to study it at the University of Birmingham. Accounting and finance are two separate disciplines that have some similar characteristics. The main difference between accounting and finance is that finance focuses on the present and future whereas accounting focuses on the past (Aspillera, 2014). The University of Birmingham is amongst the top providers for accounting and finance due to its credibility,…

and Fritz Scholder is different. Dan Namingha focus on painting landscape, and he drew butterflies. I watched the video that he described his art of butterflies. He knew different kinds of butterflies from different countries, and he drew many symbols to express Indian migration in his art. Fritz Scholder focus on painting portrait and abstract. When I compare within Hell, Heaven, and T.C. Canon’s work, I recognize that either Fritz Scholder or T.C. Canon used people to express emotions and…