National Gallery of Art

MUSEUM FAITHFULLY STANDS WITH (first name?) CHAGOYA’S ART Loveland, Colo., Sept. 29—The Loveland Museum Gallery devotes itself to keeping the Enrique Chagoya exhibit open to the public after it drew strong (or violent?) responses and attention from opponents of the work. On Wednesday, Sept. 28, a woman damaged Chagoya’s artistic display with a crowbar, due to belief that the artwork portrayed Jesus Christ in a sexual act. Kathleen Folden of Montana attacked the original exhibit known as “The…

term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of the 1980s the sculptures created by was mostly show at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol It was the series sculptures he created in the 1980s that was based on art and architecture that helped make Julian Opie become a influential…

the coastal region adjoining Moreton Bay which provided the principal subjects for his work. His watercolours are noted for their simplicity, and for their lyrical and decorative qualities. Shape, structure and colour played a dominant role in his art, engendering a bold and dynamic expression which infused vitality into the prevailing academicism of Australian water-colour painting. Macqueen's approach—which strove to reduce the landscape to a formalized, semi-abstract pattern of translucent…

grand Smithsonian American Art museum, it stands three stories high with impeccable architecture inside and out, withholding some of the most antique and modern works of American art. For some locals, the most iconic places in Washington, D.C are the White House, the National Mall,or the United States Capitol. However, I myself, believe the most iconic place in Washington, D.C is the galleries within every Smithsonian museum. It was there in the Smithsonian American Art Museum that I found the…

Toronto, Canada onNovember 15, 1923. Her talent rose at age of six when her father gave her weekly drawing assignments. She was a student at the Museum of Modern Art and learned to draw from the nude model at age 14, when she attended Federal Art Project classes. She received both her undergraduate (1945) and graduate (1946, 1949) degrees in art from the University of Iowa, where she studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. While at the university, Schapiro met and married the artist Paul…

New York’s oldest art gallery, Knoedler & Company, made $80 million selling fake paintings over the course of fifteen years. The fraud consisted of a huge network of individuals to sell their fakes. A shady art dealer named Glafira Rosales provided Knoedler with forged paintings until she was arrested for tax evasion. She commissioned paintings from a man in New York and flipped them to the gallery as original paintings by famous abstract expressionist artists. The Knoedler Gallery was a central…

creating his own artwork, Uelsmann taught photography at the University of Florida Gainesville. In addition to teaching photography, he was a graduate research professor of art and is now retired. Jerry Uelsmann has received two fellowships, one a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the other a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is also a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society…

the seven most popular illustrations of the story Jason and argonauts(National Gallery 1). His drawings are still standing in Gobelins in Paris. This painting was completed in February 1743(National Gallery 1). This famous painting is called "Jason swore eternal love to Medea”; In this art the dragon was put to sleep by the potion Medea (National Gallery 1). So that Jason can take possession of the golden fleece(National Gallery 1). In the painting, Jason stands on the dragon, while Medea, a…

bold strokes and heavy paint. The Canadian Group of Painters' policy was "to encourage and foster the growth of art in Canada which has a national character." And I believe this is a motto, that has truly aided with the Great Depression, because encouraging art, to me, is just like encouraging happiness, encouraging color and a chance to see something from a different perspective, and art is a very powerful concept thus in a sense having the ability to change or stabilize your mood. The Group’s…

For this art analysis I decided to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art. After an hour or so of visiting through the many and various exhibitions and galleries offered at the SAMA I stumbled upon a gallery that caught my attention, the Latin America Modern Contemporary exhibition. At the gallery the first art piece that I observed was “El Brujo de Malasia”. “El Brujo de Malasia” is an art piece from the Mexican artist Sergio Hernandez. “El Brujo de Malasia” is a painting composed of oil and sand…