...The Museum of Fine Art I went to Boston in this spring break and I visited one of the largest museums in the United States, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The Museum of Fine Art attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. It is also the 54th most visited art museum in the world, and the twelfth most-visited in the United States, as of 2010. The Museum was founded in 1870 and opened in 1876, with a large portion of its collection taken from the Boston Athenaeum Art Gallery. There are tons of different exhibits; some temporary and some more permanent. I went to see some of the temporary exhibits- Degas and the Nude and Aphrodite and the Gods of Love. The permanent exhibits include items of Paul Revere, silversmith, which are really cool. Their early American collection represents a wide variety of art and arts, craft and crafts. I tend to love their artifacts collections. Their permanent modern art gallery is cool but for me, is not as strong as some of their other offerings, like their collection of priceless musical instruments from around the world, throughout history. Their permanent pan-Asian art gallery is strong for its location. I'm not a big fan of their restaurant, but their cafe is open, airy, and pleasant. The museum hosts art from all over the world and from all different eras like Asia, Oceania, Greece and Egypt, the Americas, and more...
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... Art is very unique in every aspect of its presentation. In my case, I chose to work on a black box with some items whose color relates to that of the box too. When I looked at this box, I came up with many questions like to who does this box belong to and why is it black. I had a deep feeling that the owner of this box was a simple man who was neatly organized as per his items inside the box. The color black on most of his items also made me feel that this person was not the kind of a person to mess with. Since as per my perception black things are usually owned by tough people such as a hit man and tough government agent such as the CIA. This led me to illustrate on each item and what it represents alone based on what I felt and as per art. Art tell a story of something or a person and below is the story of the person who owns this as per my perception. Items The cigarettes and coin The cigarettes reveals to us that the owner of the box loves to smoke. And when I saw them I had a feeling that the owner was a regular smoker. That is why there is a cigarette on top of that box so as to remind him that he must smoke. Another reason for having the cigarette can reveal that this person is a cool guy who loves to party. As for the coins, I felt that they might reveal a different story which either the person is organized since we can see how neatly they are arranged or he loves money but he doesn’t earn much. The sunglasses,...
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...Juan Ahumada Creativity in the Arts Sidney Burnette September 9, 2012 Visual art bullets Today I went to Mcnay Art Museum because it was the perfect place for examples of visual arts. This was not the first time I had been here, but I love coming to this place because I feel it is an escape from the real world around me. Art is always one of the best ways to escape reality. Walking into the Mcnay is always a joy for me, because of all of the different kinds of art and sculptures in and around the museum. This was all cool and fun to look at, but my place of destination is the theater arts exhibit where just about everything you need to know about theater is held. As I was walking in to the exhibit I always felt so honored, because to step into the past of what you love and see and how it all got started has always touched me in my heart. I started off by looking at the costumes that greet you in the middle. The work, fabric, and colors that went into each piece were just mind blowing. There was one piece of costume in particular that really got my attention. It was a dragon-like costume for a play. The colors that went into the piece were just amazing. You can tell the designer’s love and passion for creating extravagant pieces of costume. There were other great pieces of costume throughout the exhibit; however, they used less exciting pieces of fabric and color, so I don’t feel that they deserved any sort of recognition in this observation. Costumes have not always...
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...Awesome What I find to be awesome is cars. Cars are the best thing to ever happen to this world. Where would we be without cars? Cars are the signature to most advancement. Cars are fast. Cars are classic. Cars are just amazing. I’m sure most people don’t ever stop to admire a car. Cars are amazing if you actually know about them and know what you like. There is amazing cars all over the world I have lots of cars I really like. Cars are an art. Nothing is better than the bond you can make by building your own car. It’s a whole other feeling. Cars are amazing. For three reasons. First reason is that they are fast. In my opinion of a good fast car. I would get a 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Just because that’s my style. This car is rolling fast yea there is faster imports, but this is classic, friendly but crazy fast. This is a beast on 4 wheels. 271 horse power you bet its fast. This car goes from 0-60 in 4.3 seconds. This is just one of the millions of cars out there. Cars are legit the best past time because of their incredible speed. Another fast car is the 1987 Grand National. This car is fast and slick, you need a getaway car this is your car. Its precise steering with the right driver you can drive miracles. It goes from 0-60 in 4.8 seconds. No matter what car you have you get or are thinking of getting how fast is it or how fast does it go is always one of the questions you ask. Okay so the second reason I think Cars are amazing is...
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...Introduction This week’s discussion forum topic is to identify a favorite work of art. While I’m not sure I have one absolute favorite, I can easily identify one of my favorites and will be happy to introduce you to this piece. Of course, if you are already familiar with the artist then I hope you enjoy refreshing your memory. Discussion Several years ago, at an estate sale in a neighboring town, I found a large wooden art piece that had always been one of my favorites. While it isn’t an original by any stretch of the imagination, it is something that brings me joy. After happily exchanging some cash for it, I rushed home and hung it prominently over our piano. The artist is Alphonse Mucha and he lived 1860–1939. He became very well known...
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...Artist, Kirk Clark, created a marvelous 2-D artwork in the religious category; it represents the positive and negative people of same sex marriage. This art piece is called Birth of an Angel (BA) at Beyond Arts Gallery in downtown Harlingen, Texas. Kirk Clark was born right here in the valley in McAllen, Texas and studied sculpture and drawing in the mid-60s, graduating from The University of New Mexico. As already stated this piece is a 2-D artwork done marvelously. There are so many vibrant colors on the top symbolizing heaven yet dark colors on the bottom symbolizing earth. These colors are formed in wiggly lines all around the painting, but one part of the painting forms an angel in a cool color of silver. One pattern you can see is in the angel formed with silver lines and silver dots to notice the angel in the painting. The angel can be seen as very graceful and honorable in a religious evaluation....
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...Texas.” I have heard that those stars are really bright down in Texas, the brightest on earth! I went into Texas with my buddy Evan, and we flew down there. I was scared of planes at first, but, now they are okay. So while I'm in Texas, I would visit the cities of Houston,Dallas and San Antonio. Houston, Texas the first city I want to go into. When I go to Houston I want to go watch the Houston, Texans play football and the reason why is because I like them and I want to go watch them. While I'm down in Texas I would like to go to the big Houston zoo because I want to see the White tiger that I want to see. I also want to go to the Houston cafe they have all kinds of drinks I want to try. The next city I want to go into is Dallas. When I go to Dallas I want to go to the aquarium. The reason why I want to go to the aquarium is because they have a white...
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...“It was kind of crazy, everything happened so quickly.” After spotting the university on the Cardinal Newman Guide, her love of performing arts and media led her directly to JPCatholic. “I had never experienced something that had worked out so well. It was serendipity.” After graduating...
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...So, Penn had its incoming freshman read Adam Bradley’s Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop as a means of generating discussion and bringing the class closer. We were prompted with the question, “Is hip hop art or entertainment?” Here’s what I wrote, including a really pathetic rap about the book. It’s kinda meh but I just wanted to share! So, Adam Bradley wrote a book about rap, But honestly I kinda thought the writing was crap, The book made me slap on my thinking cap, To analyze the crap that some consider rap. Messages conveyed are forgotten and delayed, We fail to realize what they sing’s a message that’s portrayed, Til we find ourselves surrounded by the movement that’s been made. I think it’s pretty cool that this year is Penn’s Year of Sound. I’m a very avid musician—a singer and a somewhat knowledgeable music theory student—and I firmly believe that music is the most powerful, and perhaps the subtlest form of communication. Adam Bradley spends much of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop arguing the idea that hip-hop is mostly about the music, the sound surrounding the lyrics (I mean, he also spends much of the book expressing the same ideas over and over and over again, but I won’t get into that). Bradley expresses the idea that the music comes first, and the content comes second, and I found myself strongly disagreeing with the notion. To put it simply, hip-hop is indeed art. In order to make this assertion, however, you have to take a...
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...My experience in the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was one that I won’t soon forget. I found being surrounded by all of these beautiful pieces of art to be an amazing feeling. I have had similar experiences, but I've never been asked to actually exam the art. Due to the material I’ve learned in Basic Design, it has made me appreciate the work much more. If anything, it enhanced my experience. During my time at the DIA there was one particular piece of art that did catch my eye: Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine by Robert S. Duncanson. This piece was my favorite because of the extreme attention to detail and the lifelike feeling it gives. You can picture yourself standing on the edge of the lake, overlooking it, as a cool breeze rolls by through...
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...I made a promise, Yeah I swore to myself, I’d never give my heart away, No, No, To anyone else Cause I’d burned and I’d been lied to, Couldn’t find love if I tried to Say I’d live alone forever, Was the safest way that I knew There you were, As if you had been, Listening inside my head Everything had fallen apart You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing I used to wake up At the first drop of rain Now I sleep beside you, Through a hurricane Like a window, That was painted shut My heart was closed, And had enough And though I tried to hide away, You knocked until I opened up There you were, As if you had been, Waiting for me all my life Everything had fallen apart You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing There you were, As if you had been, Listening inside my head Everything had fallen apart Then you came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing Yeah everything had fallen apart, You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free It’s a good thing It’s a good thing It’s a good thing It was gonna be you and me, But now your gone. I had planned the rest of my life How am I supposed to move on I can't sleep in our bed Or on the couch You left so many memories...
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...Graffiti is just another way to express yourself as being a form of a artist. So what I’m trying to say is, graffiti shouldn’t be illegal. It’s just creative writing with colors, yea it destroys but it also builds character. If they want their property to stop getting destroyed then they should make places for graffiti artist to do their work. People should want places to be more colorful. Some supports of allowing graffiti will let artist express themselves in a way they know how. Allowing graffiti will keep people from doing it illegally in places that are illegal. Allowing graffiti will be helpful because places could be set up where it’s not illegal. Graffiti is gang affiliated is what some people say but it’s really not. Graffiti...
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...and maintained a deep connection between art and his characters. He focused on thoroughly examining the relationship between beauty, art, life, religion and morality. The picture of Dorian Gray is based on the same theme of love for art and art’s ability to depict life’s harshness. The picture of Dorian Gray.” It is a masterpiece, which not only represents Wilde’s brilliance in his writing, but also displays dark and personal aspects of his life. *****The story display the reflections of the author’s personality in the novel’s three main characters, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton and Basil Hallward. Each character shows a kind of approach towards life which is similar in its philosophy to Oscar Wilde’s real life approach. **Oscar Wild says: “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be- in other ages, perhaps. Oscar has crafted Dorian Gray as a symbol of art which can truly be appreciated with no regard to morality and ethics.*** He is characterized by pure soul which was polluted by the vices in society and got transformed him into a selfish, who lives to seek pleasure. The author and the character mirror each other because, both had a pleasure seeking nature with no regards to ethics and morals in the society. . According to Oscar Wild Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. As you know Oscar Wild was homosexual and there was a man he loved, Alfred Duglas. I read several letter that were written form...
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...Introduction to Literature Instructor: Michelle Pinkard 04/08/2013 I will be discussing The Pool Players a short poem written by African American Gwendolyn Brooks. The three elements that I found interesting in this poem will be reviewed. The elements are image, tone, and symbol. I will explain how these elements affected my response to the poem all together. In addition also explain my reaction to the contents of this short poem. Along with clarifying if these elements caused me to focus on just one aspect of this poem over other poems. When I first read this short poem. I was baffled as to what it meant. I reread it several times and still cold not comprehend what it meant. Then I listened to the We Real Cool speech given by the author of The Pool Players Gwendolyn Brooks. She goes on describing how she was inspired to write this poem. Brooks goes on to explain how one day she was walking in her community one afternoon during school time. As Brooks was passing by a pool hall she saw a seven little boys shooting pool in that pool hall. “ Seven boys in a pool during school time. The pool players, seven at the Golden Shovel”, (Flynn, Richard, 2000, "The Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood). Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901386. “ Brooks goes on to explain instead of asking herself, why are they not in school? She asked herself , I wonder how they feel about themselves? Did they consider themselves...
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...many forms. The artists that create these sometimes beautiful masterpieces are often overlooked, but their murals live on to be seen and added on to day after day. Most people feel that graffiti on any type of property is vandalism. If someone marks up an object it is distasteful and deviant, but sometimes it can be a work of art that gets overlooked. Janice Rahn, author of Painting without Permission also thought this, until she was given a project with her art students to graffiti garbage cans. After she was given this project Janice saw graffiti as artwork. She even took her friends and family around to sites that she found around her city, including an old set of warehouse businesses that had beautiful murals on them. Graffiti can be seen as an act of vandalism when it is used to deface public property. Many gangs like to mark their territory by putting their signs on things like buildings and street signs. When this is done it is not art it is wrong. People who are trying to make art get scorned because of people like this. When I am running I love to stop and look at what people create under bridges. I also like to see what cool works of art are painted on the sides of railroad cars and try to imagine how the artist came to make these beautiful masterpieces. It hurts me to see them being defaced by gang signs. Paul 107 the author of All City, the book about taking up space, was very intrigued by the artists and the way they risked everything to graffiti walls. He...
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