National Gallery of Art

for the tourism industry apart from the river it has been utilised in variety of ways by the visitors who are first timers to the London city. Cruises, small boat trips , the artistic riverside pubs and restaurants, theatres , museum and the art galleries basically flank the River Thames. The guided tour to the River Thames has a bit of everything from the lavishness of the cruise to the simplicity of a boat ride, if one feels of relaxing at the banks the artistic interiors of the riverside…

many other 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…

The biblical Virgin Mary’s story exists in a spiritual realm of understanding that accepts a dimensionality that cannot be quantified by science, but rather must be accepted by pure faith as it requires one to move outside of conventional reality to believe it. Furthering the acceptance of Mary’s holy nature Dorothy Sacksteder in her thesis “The Cult of Mary: The Role of the Virgin during the Italian Renaissance” states that the Roman Catholic Church exercised their spiritual authority in…

none of my co-workers have any history with NAIDOC, therefore, it is important for us to identify with the meaning behind the acronym. The story behind NAIDOC week was that of an Aboriginal organisation in 1956 which supported the founding of, the National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC) (Australian Government, 2015). In 1991, thirty five years later NADOC expanded to include Torres Strait Islander culture and peoples (Australian Government; Indigenous Affairs, 2015) and has now…

As art developed and changed, the improvement of technology and the continuity of innovation were integrated into art. The relationship between photography and art has became increasingly integrated. Photography was adopted as one of the mediums to document, extend, and even immortalize dance. Philip Trager was one of the photographers that was at the forefront of this revolution. In discussing the emergence and development of Trager as one of the most accomplished and acknowledged photographers…

Approaches that were successful were where “traditional ‘creative’ subjects such as art and English were often incorporated into other areas such as science and mathematics” (Ofsted, 2010 p5). Good and outstanding schools drew no distinction between the national curriculum, national standards in the core subjects and a creative approach to learning, they were all intertwined. Specifically, creative learning was identified as being…

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…

The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck is an oil painting that was transferred from wood, panel, to a canvas. It was completed between 1434 and 1436 and it currently resides in the National Gallery of Art in D.C., where I visited it. It is believed by experts that this painting is part of a triptych, a work of art that is divided into three sections that are together and have artwork in both the inside and outside, although there has been no actual evidence that proves it. The painting is very complex…

In 1974 and 1975 women artists’ groups were formed and exhibitions were held in Christchurch, Wellington and Hamilton. A woman's art journal the spiral appeared in 1976, and a women's photography exhibition toured the country the same year. A woman's gallery opened in Wellington in 1979 and women’s art festivals were held in 1979 and 1980. The focus of the women’s art movement shifted from Christchurch to Wellington to Auckland over time. Women's theatreThe Cure-All Ills All Star Travelling…

Nationalists believed that the conquest of wild country led to american pride. Wilderness began to be recognized as a cultural and resourceful basis for national self-esteem. This, in turn, led nationalists to investigate the significances of nature after gaining their independence. America’s nature commanded world jealousy and admiration. Abigail Adams, when on a trip to England, wrote about the differences…