...Museum Paper Art 101 Starting my visit to the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum I was unsure of the artifact that I would choose to write this paper about. I have been to the Smithsonian museums countless times in my life strolling about taking the exhibits for granted like the many other people raised in the Washington metropolitan area having virtiously unlimited access to them. I was prepared for another mundane visit to the museums, however this visit was different I saw many exhibits that I have studied recently in this class such as the Lascaux caves and other prehistoric art. I found myself engaged as never before as I searched the old halls for what would be subject of this paper an ancient artifact of my very own choosing. I decided on the Cypruss crossroads of civilizations exhibit located on the museums second floor. I was drawn to this exhibit mainly due to the two large stone statues at opposing ends of it’s narrow entrance doors. Upon entry I was amazed at all of the ancient original pieces most of which I can recall learning about in this class. I decided that I would pick a piece and snap a quick picture of myself proudly standing next to it, get the dimensions and backround and be on my way to an A paper in no time. I pulled out my digital camera and began to power it up when I was immediately advised by the museum security guard that I was not authorized to take pictures inside the exhibit due to the delicate nature of the artifacts. I...
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...The Smithsonian museum, which is located in Washington, D.C., is a national museum of the American Indian houses. It is one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of its kind. All the things that the museum exhibits show visitors who are from all of the world the sense and spirit of Native America. The museum is located Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC. You can go to visit this museum every day from 10 A.M to 5:30 P.M except 25th December and the admission is free. The museum has so many collections of the Native America that you can learn much history of Native America. In the museum, there are approximate 266,000 catalog records and they represent over 12,000 years of history. These collections range...
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...Pulling into the parking lot at the Columbus Museum of Art I first got the impression that the museum itself seemed to look like a piece of artwork. There were status outside and little nutcracker men on the roofs it all came together so elegantly. Previous to this visit I had never gone to any other museums aside from those that are located on campus, so it was a whole new experience for me. After going into the museum and taking a look around I was surprised to see the variety of work that they had accumulated. I especially enjoyed the new branch that was added the held the new additions of contemporary art. My favorite pieces of art were the ones that took photographs and then added touches to them to make them unique and I particularly enjoyed observing the artwork where the artist manipulated mirrors to make different allusions depending on how you looked at them. After...
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...Museum Paper In this week’s class, we all made a visit to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Actually, this was my first time to take a tour to a museum in U.S. Museum is a place worth visiting, and it really was a better experience for me. I saw so many artworks in this big museum. Now, I select three of these artworks to share with you. They completely shocked me and gave a deep expression at first sight. First of all, I want to show my favorite one to you. It is called “bridge”, and it was painted by Joseph Stella. He was an American but born in Italy, Stella immigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen, and his paintings always express the shock and admiration he felt as a European who came to Manhattan from an older, more traditional culture. Stella moved to Brooklyn in 1916, and crossed this bridge regularly. He did several paintings of the bridge, all from the same viewpoint. His perspective captures the impression you get when you walk over the bridge. In my opinion, Bridge combines Futurist elements with American subjects, and it was showed me strong technology and modern feeling. From the brief introduction of this artwork, I also saw Joseph Stella's own words about the bridge: "Seen for the first time, as a weird metallic Apparition under a metallic sky…supported by the massive dark towers dominating the surrounding tumult of the surging skyscrapers with their gothic majesty sealed in the purity of their arches, the cables, like divine messages from above...
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...On Friday 12, 2016, I went to the Museum of tolerance; this was my first time coming to this museum. When I first saw the outside building, the first thing that went to my mind was that this museum looks like a puzzle box; it is very different from other museum that I have been too. During my observation inside the museum, I saw people enjoying themselves while walking around, talking about each work-art, taking pictures, writing about things that they felt fascinating and I am pretty sure that they were having such a good time. It is very interesting watching so much effort and inspiration that artist put into this masterpieces. The artist that I really like the most was the famous writer of Anne Frank. Anne is well known because of her diary...
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...Frances Andrade Art History 166 (Monday & Wednesday) November 2, 2014 Museum Paper A work of art that I kept going back to and really impressed me was a piece titled “Woman Reading” by artist Eastman Johnson. Eastman Johnson is an American Artist that painted scenes of everyday life in America, along with portraits. It was painted in 1874 and is an oil on board. The paintings size is 25 1/8 inches by 18 5/8 inches. The piece is a painting of a woman reading a book with a sailboat in the background. In describing this work of art in detail, I’d have to start off by describing the colors in the painting. At the top starts with blue for the sky, then you see pink clouds then really blend down with pinkish/grey and green water and brown dirt and grass. These colors are all blended together. There really is no definite horizon line between sky and water. The sky and clouds have varying different shades of blue, pinks and blending with a touches of grey. Even with that said the only way you can really tell it’s the water is because there is a sail boat there and you can see the reflection. The water is portrayed as dead calm where the ship is. No waves or white caps. I don’t believe there is any breeze at all. Johnson painted a ship on the water with tall white sails, and showed its reflection on the water. Without the ship there, I’m not sure you would have been able to tell there was water. The colors all blend together so beautifully. Johnson painted the woman in...
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...first start off with my trip to the museum. I decided to go to the Asian art museum in San Francisco for my project. My experience there was not as exciting as I thought it would be. I have been to this museum before and had a great time. I can only think that most likely it’s because they had a lot more sculptures and rugs out, whereas last time I went they had more paintings. I only really found three items, two paintings and 1 sculpture that interested me. Of those three I will be talking about two of them in this paper. The first painting I will be talking about is "Mount Fuji viewed from the Imai Ferry on the Tone river, Shimosa province" by Shiba Kokan. The painting has Mount Fuji in the background and the Tone River in the forefront with six boats on it. The banks of the Tone River can also be seen with lush greenery on it. I wouldn't say that this painting made me feel anything when I saw it but it more like it piqued my interest due to its vibrant colors and it looked different from the other Japanese paintings I saw. For Example, at the museum they had another painting of Mount Fuji right next to this one but it didn't look as vibrant and it looked kind of bland in my opinion. I was to find out later, after reading the Plaque in front of the Shiba painting, the reason for the difference between the two is that Shiba Kokan was experimenting with western techniques of painting (1). Another thing mentioned on the Plague at the museum, though not mentioned on the information...
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...Coleman Art Museum - College Essays - Liliansteve www.studymode.com/essays/Coleman-Art-Museum-1878651.html 網頁紀錄 - 更多此站結果 Read this college essay and over 1,500,000 others like it now. Don't miss your chance to earn better grades and be a better writer! ... COLEMAN ART MUSEUM The problem: The problem with Coleman Art Museum is the inability to produce any revenue from the ... Coleman Art Museum by Logan Wright on Prezi prezi.com/jze-y9jl7kki/coleman-art-museum 網頁紀錄 - 更多此站結果 Coleman Art Museum Coleman Art Museum Max Gearin Ryan Lackey Aimee Noles Cody Wood Logan Wright Situation Alternatives Decision Analysis Recommendation Our recommendation at this point, is to implement Alternative #3. Remove 15 percent discount ... Coleman Art Museum - 圖片搜尋結果 Constance E. Coleman » Bahia del Espiritu Santo beached near Puerto ... ... Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney coleman center accessibility the coleman center located in the kahn ... ColeMan Art Museum Artwork: Rocky Mountain Goats—B.C. by Michael Coleman Using the Balanced Scorecard to link short-term activities with long ... ColeMan Art Museum 更多 Coleman Art Museum 圖片 Coleman Art Museum - Essays - Caucella - Free College Essays, Term Paper Help, and Essay Advice - TermPaperWarehouse.com www.termpaperwarehouse.com › Business and Management Read this essay on Coleman Art Museum . Come browse our large digital warehouse of free sample essays. Get the knowledge you need in order to pass...
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...Museums are like people: containing several different types of establishments, containing various themes within each, and containing layers or new things to learn. The purpose of visiting a gallery includes desires of entertainment, to gain knowledge about the subject, or to satisfy one’s curiosity. Common themes of museums include history and diversity, whether it tells the discoveries of Isaac Newton from London or the creativity of Frida Kahlo from Mexico. However, if an individual walks into an exhibition without an open mind, the possibility of gorgeous, thought provoking displays turning into a pile of confusing images or word surfaces. In order to understand the essential message within art, one needs to connect their surroundings with the theme. While in Los Angeles, California a museum presented its unique, comforting, personal, and intimate relic. The Museum of Broken Relationships’ appearance alone surprises yet mesmerizes. Many times in order to portray...
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...This paper builds on Stephen Greenblatt’s work in models of art exhibition by examining the presentation, content, and pedagogical success of comparable exhibits of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican anthropological artifacts in The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Both institutions have curative extensive collections of Mesoamerican art with artistic and anthropological value, but differ greatly in the presentation of these artifacts. According to Greenblatt, art exhibitions call fall under two distinct categories. The first is a model that emphasizes wonder, the ability of objects to evoke awe in viewers. Ideally, a successful wonder-driven exhibit ought to be captivating enough to stop visitors in their tracks, popular enough to inspire return trips, and punctuated by visitor “ahhs” and “oohs.” The second model for art exhibition is a resonance-focused model, which Greenblatt describes as, “the power of the displayed object to...
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...Analysis of Springs Flowers Painting The piece, Spring Flowers was painted by Julius LeBlanc Stewart, who was an American artist, in 1890. The pieces he created during his life are exhibited in different museums and private exhibitions. The subjects of his pieces are very attractive to the eyes and many tastes, because they depict the images of a lighthearted daily life of society. The piece that I am analyzing is currently on exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum in, Phoenix, Arizona. Who was Julius LeBlanc Stewart? He was an American painter born in 1855, in Philadelphia, Pa. When he was ten, his family settled in Paris, France where he spent most of his life as a “figure” and “genre” painter. His style and choice of subject matter were greatly influenced by the collection tastes of his father, who particularly patronized the contemporary Spanish-Roman school, the artists Eduardo Zamacois, Federico Madrazo, and Mariano Fortuny (Dictionary of American Art, Icon Editions, p.341). He died on January 5th, 1919 in Paris, France. After his death, several friends, consisting on the painters Beraud, Walter MacEwen, and Gari Melchers, were appointed to a committee to advise on proportioning many his works of art to various American museums. It was Melchers that personally arranged the gift of At Home to the Telfair Academy in Georgia, while other beneficiaries were the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy...
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...Olowe of Ise “It is insufficiently understood that a museums power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections” – Duncan F. Cameron. Duncan F. Cameron served as a museum curator and director in the Brooklyn Museum in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. Duncan served in the museum from 1971-1974. An artist once told me, “Art is in the eyes of the beholder” – anonymous. It’s a statement with a broad perspective of thought and meditation. First I would like to give an example of what the quote by Duncan meant can be seen by the work of Constantine Petridis, a museum curator of African art gallery in the Cleveland Museum of art. He explains objects from the same culture are displayed together and differentiated with those of their neighbors. This concept shows the formal and stylistic relationships between neighboring and familiar artistic customs or traditions that ex-plains the distinctiveness of the arts of distinct people. An addition to the regional framework, thematic connections are highlighted through the use of gallery cards which explain topics of artists, leadership, masks and masquerades, styles and the supernatural. Gallery cards provide photo, descriptions and narrative text linking...
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...The Ringling Museum of Art was worth the trip to visit. Prior to going to the museum, I assumed it was just a circus museum, but to my surprise, the Ringling Museum was much more to explore. It has a Museum of Art, Circus Museum, a historic home, an 18th-Century Theater and Bayfront gardens. I started my day going to the Museum of Art in the Searing Wing to see a special exhibit called “A Kaleidoscope of Color: The Costume Designs of Miles White.” The Ringling museum knew how to put a show together, but White knew how to convey it to the level of an artistic display using a pencil, a sketchbook, and his creativity. First of all, the first step was what pieces would go in the exhibit and what was the most significant thing to describe Mile White. According to the curator of this exhibit, it took her a couple of months to narrow down the checklist to arrange 48 drawing fit into two galleries. Along with the 48...
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...REPORT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Australia University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Business School of Management Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 4 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 5 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 7 SOCIAL 7 TECHNOLOGICAL 8 POLITICAL 9 ENVIRONMENTAL 9 ECONOMIC 10 INTERNAL CAPABILITY ANALYSIS 11 VRIN 12 S.W.O.T ANALYSIS 14 PROPOSED STRATEGIES 16 STRATEGIC ALLIANCES 18 REQUIRED RESOURCES 20 CONCLUSION 23 REFERENCES 24 INTRODUCTION Located on Sydney’s unique Harbour, one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations is the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The MCA has been dedicated to displaying, collecting and interpreting contemporary art since it first opened its doors to the public in November 1991 (MCA, 2014). The beginning of the MCA was due to an Australian artist, John Power, who left his fortune to the University of Sydney when he passed away. The University of Sydney, on Power’s request, used this money to educate and inform Australians about contemporary art. This eventually led to the NSW Government donating the old Maritime Services Board premises to the cause. This location is where the MCA remains today. The following paper will analyse critical elements involved in the MCA’s strategic operations. Beginning with the mission, goals and objectives, followed by an external environmental analysis and an internal capability analysis. The majority of the paper will discuss...
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...Will Hawkins is the Museum Coordinator at the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, home of The Westervelt Collection. Mr. Hawkins graduated from Huntington College in Montgomery, AL with a degree in History. After college, he began working in the restaurant industry and continued for 15 years. While working in Tuscaloosa, he began volunteering with the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, and shortly after, he was hired as a member of the staff and worked his way up to becoming the Museum Coordinator. The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art houses The Westervelt Collection comprised of approximately 1000 works of fine and decorative arts. The collection was amassed by Jack Warner as investments for Gulf States Paper, now the Westervelt Company. Operating under a nonprofit foundation, the museum was asked by the Westervelt Company to share its collection with the community. Being a collection that was pieced together simply by the tastes of one man, the Westervelt Collection is remarkably cohesive. Hawkins stated that's he is always amazed at the story told through the pieces of art. There are four paid staff members at the museum. Mr. Hawkins and Kathy Thurman are the only two professional staff members. The museum employs two part-time college students. Mr. Hawkins’s duties as Museum Coordinator include a very wide range of daily tasks. From handling the art to training docents and from scheduling tours to giving them himself, Hawkins’s day is packed with many different tasks. The museum has gone through...
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