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Danielle Ignacio AAS 514 Valerie Soe October 9, 2015 Journal #2 Week Four Scott Tsuchitani is a visual artist located here in San Francisco. Tsuchitani’s art has been featured in museums, galleries, and universities in eight states and here at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), SFMOMA Arts Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Asian Art Museum and de Young Museum. Before becoming a visual artist, Scott worked in documentary film on international productions and alongside Academy Award…

Woman with a Parasol-Madame Monet and Her Son was Claude Monet, a French, impressionist painter. Depicted in this piece are two figures—a woman and a child—who are meant to be Monet’s wife and son. While this piece currently resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the scene within this painting takes place in Paris, France. In this essay, I will formally analyze Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol-Madame Monet and Her Son by introducing Monet and discussing his inspiration, as…

The history surrounding the birth of The Fall of Phaeton is somewhat scarce. It is known that during the time this remarkable art work was created Rubens was traveling around Europe. He was influenced heavily by the masters of the Renaissance. The Fall of Phaeton is baroque in nature and has strong Venetian influences. Though it is unclear where The Fall of Phaeton was first displayed its first recorded existence was in Susanna Willemsens collection in 1657 in Antwerp. Though it was officially…

maintained for everyone’s benefit. Philadelphia is also home to the Phillies and the Eagles. While you are here, we will visit the Art Museum, Independence Hall, and the Betsy Ross House. Art Museum Art museum is located in Fairmount, Philadelphia. I would like to bring you to the Philadelphia Museum of Art because the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the 3rd largest art museum in the country. Upstairs…

mainly on important leaders and such as Abraham Lincoln. In 1844 Johnson moved to Washington, D.C., and began to draw crayon portraits. Johnson drew a portrait of John Quincy Adams, which was mantled in the National Portrait Gallery and a portrait of Dolley Madison, which was put in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. At this point in his career, Johnson was becoming famous. In 1846 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow invited him to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to draw portraits of his…

It was a bright and early Halloween morning as I gear up to board the plane. I was about to leave on that cliché post college graduation trip to London. I left at 7:15pm from Boston. I ate half a bagel and I was ready to conquer the world, or at least London. I finally arrived across the pond and stepped my feet on the ground at 9 am. I hopped in my rental car and started towards my hotel, because I am ready to sleep. Jet lag had gotten to me. I finally arrived at Hostel 639. I decided…

30 in 1853 in groot- Zundert, Netherlands. His mother, Anna had inspired van Gogh because she was a moody artist and she loves nature and drawing she had passed her love for the arts on to her son, but his father had nothing to do with the arts he was a country miner. Van Gogh’s education was at royal academy of fine art for one year in 1886 and then at Willem II collage from 1886 to 1888, he was a post-impressionist painter, his career an artist began in earnest in Etten, He decided to become…

writing or drawings on public surfaces. Graffiti not only adds color but life to the streets. In todays society it is common for men and women to assume graffiti is just a name scrawled on a wall but graffiti is more than a name or a tag, it is an art form. Urban graffiti was born in New York City in the late 1960s. Taki 183, one of the first known graffiti artists, used a maker to write his name all over New York City. In 1971, Taki was interviewed for an article in the New York Times. It…

very known for the jungle themes that are portrayed in his pieces, for example, certain artwork like Surprised was exhibited in the National Gallery, located in London in 1891. Another piece of artwork named The Dream was exhibited in MOMA located in New York in 1910. These two examples helped him to improve his ability on his art by creating a meticulous and meaningful art form.…

Art and Immigration Historically, the way most immigrants live is a dialect surrounding the memories of the world in which they have come and the daily battles of learning the stretches of the new society. Other things like new language masterly, staying and performing one’s duties among strangers as well as the struggles to cope up with unfamiliarity make up other challenges faced by the immigrants in their supposedly new home. As they live to seek comfort in whatever they see, they feel so…