Pictures at an Exhibition

Before transferring to Rockhurst I attended Johnson County Community College for two years but never actually went into the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art that is located on campus. One of my favorite pieces in the exhibition was Sean Lyman’s graphite drawing titled “Coming and Going.” I have always liked the look of graphite and how all the different shades of black really bring an image together. In Lyman’s work the open doors are a lighter shade of gray compared to…

This picture has become a significant milestone in the career of the artist and largely determined the fate of the fine arts in general. About thirty years the picture had been available for viewing only to painter’s friends. The work was too revolutionary, unusual and provocative for the public. Other artists treated it differently from admiration and brilliant prophecies to curses and total disregard. Critics have called it "the sign for a brothel". This nude statue of famous writer and…

United States, the Hudson River School finally gets celebrated, a century and a quarter later. Two exhibitions were used to celebrate McEntees’s efforts. His specific contributions to the movement included his personal journals, which have become treasures for scholars who study the early days of the Hudson River School. The two exhibitions that were used to celebrate McEntee were: Kingston exhibitions - an exploration…

recent exhibitions, Important Works on Paper from the Past Forty Years, Close showed rare drawing from the 70s, Polaroid maquettes, watercolor prints, felt stamps, and two recent bodies of artwork (John). Making an exhibition that starts from when he first started drawing to his current drawings to show his improvement throughout the years. Most of the drawings that Close creates for such exhibitions are very large in size and often overwhelming for the viewers. Another notable exhibition that…

market system allowing for increases in private consumerism. In 1957, Poland was able to introduce a similar system after an outbreak of a number of protests. In 1959, Soviet Premiere Khrushchev was publically humiliated at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, by a display showing the state of American households, and how inadequate the Russian household was becoming. Following the embarrassing event the Soviets created the Seven-Year Plan, pledging to match the US’s housing and consumer…

Gallery, I was captivated by a light installation piece of art made from a famous photograph. The name of the photograph is called “The Soiling of Old Glory” by Stanley Forman. This picture is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken in Boston during a riot in front of a courthouse in 1976 (Highbrow). The exhibition I chose to study belongs to Hank Willis Thomas and is called What We Ask Is Simple. Just with reading the name alone I was intrigued. To view this image you as a viewer would have…

When you turn the corner and enter the exhibition, you’re taken to the new – albeit familiar – world of the Vesper family. The Vesper family is a 19th century family of mixed heritage who was able to “pass” as a white family, despite being seen as “Negro” in the eyes of the law. The head of the Vesper family, Abram Vesper, was formerly a slave in Brazil who later become a navigator, merchant, and came to own a small shipping company. He lost his only son during a war, and so he relies on…

This all can be related to movies, books, pictures and everyday life. I think that Diane Arbus used her creativity to capture photographs of people throughout New York city, and if she never did then people today wouldn’t be able to see what unique things happened many years ago. I also think that…

Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Chapter 13 begins with Mary Cassatt a thirty four year old who’s life was centered around her family. Until she became an impressionist painter who made her debut during the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris of 1879. The Impressionist Exhibition open on April 10 where eleven of Cassatt's pastels and her…

“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to…