Metropolitan Museum of Art

border. Sitting on the banks of the Spokane River and encompassing around 60 square miles, the city is surrounded by a vibrant landscape of the Rocky Mountain foothills, plains, prairies, lakes and forests. With a population of 208,916 and a wider metropolitan area of 535,724 residents, Spokane is the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. After Seattle, Vancouver and Portland, it is also the fourth largest city in the Pacific Northwest region.…

According to Kleiner’s analysis of African art before the 1800s, caves such as the Apollo 11 come from Africa and are assumed to be some of the oldest paintings currently discovered, showing the diversity of the continent itself. The works are difficult to date and decipher meaning, although some of the best work comes from the Benin Kingdom. Assumed to be established in the 13th century, most of its power rose along the 16th century. The kingship was considered sacred and presented artworks…

His work is in permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Bibliotheque nationale de France, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and many others. His photographic equipment was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. Some famous subjects photographed by Karsh were Muhammad Ali, Marian…

sold Jackson Pollock’s “No. 5, 1948” painting to an anonymous buyer for a whopping $140 million. Jackson Pollock paintings cost that much and are valued so highly in the art world which is why they are very meticulous and cautious when authenticating newly discovered art works from the late artist. There are three factors to how art history experts determine if an artwork is authentic. They look for the artist’s distinct style to which they look closely and in detail the techniques applied in…

What is art and what art is have been very controversial topics of discussion for centuries. Art is a very opinionated subject, and many people tend to share different views when it comes to art. To this day, we still do not have one solid, universally agreed upon definition of art. This makes it very hard to decide what is art, and what is not, considering we do not have a perfectly correct guideline to follow. Philosophers and artists have been sharing their beliefs on the argument of art for…

does Mario Vargas Llosa say that “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”? Llosa says, “only in the cultural arena is Latin America’s integration a reality”; he is trying to portray that cultural aspects, like writing and art, have found what “unites” Latin America, where as in other areas, such as politics, have failed to define what brings Latin America together, but more of a separation. What Llosa is portraying here is that the creators of Latin America have…

Indianapolis had a sponsored Jazz week and I was able to attend two outstanding performances back to back, each of which was comprised of widely known musicians from the Jazz community. On April 10th, I attended a concert In the Christel DeHaan fine arts center at the University of Indianapolis. The band performing was led by an influential drummer by the name of Tim Horner. Making this small band into a quartet, Tim was accompanied by Steve Allee on piano, Jeremy Allen on Bass and Dave Stryker…

Gray, Oscar Wide writes: “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors”. Discuss this statement with close reference to the text. Introduction The quote, “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” is a case in point of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Dorian’s image reflects his inner self, and mirrors his soul. The Picture of Dorian Gray highlights the idea of aestheticism and challenges influence of art over an individual instead of the realities of life. This essay…

important role in the criminal investigation and how influence to the artist. Since the early centuries has been used for evidence collection, recording crime scenes, identify suspects in his capture and to report events to the public. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play”, the exhibition includes about 70 works in collection from 19th and 20th shots. Photography by modern documentation which includes William Klein and Larry…

Evan Wall Reyer 3rd Block 12 September 2016 Washington Crossing the Delaware The painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by Emanuel Leutze, and the poem with the same name, by David Shulman, have many similarities and differences. Both of them depict the same event, with most of the same ideas, but even though there are more similarities, they are both still different. There are many differences between the poem and painting, but they are still mostly the same. In the first line of the…