Museums of American art

morals held by a considerable number of sincere persons, however mistaken.”(81-86) Since art museums began to display statues and other forms of art that portray humans there has been many debates on whether certain pieces should be out for all to see or not. Who gets to decide what is displayed? Should it be the public opinion? The writer of The Atlantic Monthly firmly believes that the art shown in museums should be determined by the public. The writer conveys his ideas through analogies,…

should be included in a museum? That is a question that not many visitors ask about a museum, however as an architect or designer it is a fundamental question to ask one’s self when it comes to describing a museum. It can become a debate, deciding whether the museum should or should not be a simple massing where art is displayed. If the answer is it should, then why not just design a white box where all the attention goes into the art on the inside? When it comes to museums, we think of a place…

Chen Yiqi GEM1902P Reflection Piece Punggol – From Kampung to Developmental Heartland On the walls of the void decks of towering blocks of HDB flats in Edgefield Plains, one would be surprised to find a series of murals filling the public space. Painted along the outer edges and corners of the HDB flats, being incorporated into dents on the walls and pillars, its cartoonish style is juxtaposed with the sleek and modern architecture of the buildings that house these murals. Figure 1: Mural…

relationship with art, collectors, and museums. I discuss the influence of collectors and major art galleries as it pertains to the embedded systems within museum curating, specifically how it affects the behavior of modern artists. The intent of the artist is perhaps the most influential in regards to what is created. It affects every decision of the art process and philosophy. However, there seem to be fallacies within the paradigm, most of which apply to a gallery or museum representation.…

In New York museums are buildings whose histories are tied into the fabric of the city. While some buildings of a different program might slide under the radar, a new museum could not be commissioned in the city without fanfare or skepticism or protest. The controversy can be credited to the fact that even in our contemporary time critics, architects, artists, and the sponsoring agents, and even the public all have different expectations on what a museum should be. It has been a challenge to…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum are organized in a style that shows a developing history of the United States through social and cultural representations. The iconic work that seems to unify both museums is the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington which significantly highlights the spirit of American history painting through the later parts of the eighteen hundreds. Being the American icon he is, George Washington and his portraits reveal that he is one of the…

In this art study, the affect of contemporary museum culture in the United States, Europe, and Egypt define the exhibition trend of “replicating the real” in terms of spatial exhibitions of historical artifacts from Egypt. In the United States, I found the Metropolitan Museum of Art presentation of the Temple of Dendur as an example of the internalized exhibition of ancient Egyptian culture in a large-scale urban environment. In a similar manner, the Louvre presents large rooms with Egyptian…

Art from the Renaissance is most realistic compared to any other art. During my trip to the St. Louis Art Museum I look through hundreds of paintings from the Renaissance and Baroque period. My favorite painting I looked at from this period at the museum was Peasants Dancing in a Tavern by Adriacn van Ostade. The Renaissance and Baroque art section stood out the most to me at the museum. When I first arrived to the St. Louis Art Museum I went down to the first level where most of the art was…

Her art has been well-known for 8 decades, and have influenced the world throughout time (“About Georgia O’Keeffe,” 2017). She spent 70 years creating and contributing to the development of American Modernism (“Georgia O’Keeffe,” n.d.). In fact, during 1985, president Ronald Reagan awarded her with the National Medals of Arts in honor of her contributions (“Georgia O’Keeffe Biography,” 2016). After she died, an art museum was built in her name to commemorate and…

“Entrance to the Subway” is an oil painting on canvas, by Mark Rothko, an American painter of Russian-Jewish descent. This painting is part of series of street scenes and subway pictures made in the 1930’s by Mark Rothko (National Gallery of Art). This painting serves as an example of depression-era paintings, a time of poverty and unemployment. The main purpose of this painting is to portray the loneliness of city life. The youngest of four children Mark Rothko was born Marcus Yakovlevich…