Cultural activity has continued to be part be art of the human race since times in history. Due to a major role held by culture in shaping the society, various museums have been set up across the county for remembrance of various historical artifacts and other fine art works. In fulfillment of the assignment in this unit HUM 112, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The main aims of the visit are to identify the major artwork kept in the museum in addition to the influences of the intellectual
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The Parable of The Sadhu Reflection by: Austine Mae Gabales Mgt19 MTH 10:30-12:00 The Sadhu provides a parallel to business situations — both require quick responses where indecision can have grim consequences. As on the mountain, most business decisions occur absent all relevant information. Also, in our business lives our rush to succeed can let our goals interfere with doing the right thing. I would suggest that most of us have become numb to situations we confront because of their banality
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Kayla Demel Art Appreciation 103 Online 04/1915 Comparison of Wendell Castle’s Cavalcade and Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculpture Comparison of Wendell Castle’s Cavalcade and Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculpture The artwork Cavalcade by Wendell Castle compared with Harry Bertoia’s sounding sculpture were designed for different purposes but both use elements of art to emphasis the meanings of each. I found these sculptures at the Wichita Art Museum. I selected these two because I found sculptures
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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
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The theme of the oil painting “ Boys Blowing Bubbles” is one that tells a narrative of fragility and the briefness of time. The theme of fragility of time has long been attributed as a common theme since the ancient times. In many of these art pieces images such as bubbles were perceived as symbols of fragility, purity, and time. In Boys Blowing Bubble, Woutiers explores the fragility narrative with great attention by emphasizing symbols, spatial placement, color, and mood. The spatial placement
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Walking in someone else’s shoes is not easy. Vincent Van Gogh found an old pair of shoes at a flea market in Paris. The shoes were just to paint, but Van Gogh did not just paint them. Van Gogh also walked around in the mud until he felt that they had more character added to them. He then decided to paint them. Many paintings show the artist’s emotion towards that object or scene. Van Gogh helps illustrate his life within this painting, the shoes in the painting are peasant shoes and he was a peasant
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On the Museum of Fine Arts I choose a painting called Twelfth-Night Feast by Jan Havickzzz Steen. A combination of lights, cloth’s color, decoration of the room, and facial expression are used by Steen in order to express the happiness and joy that people shared and celebrated during Twelfth-Night Feast. In Twelfth-Night Feast, Steen is focused more on the people in his painting instead of the food. His painting is about feast. People have smile in their face and enjoying the time with each other
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Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work, prominent for its magnificence, feeling and color, profoundly impacted twentieth century art. He battled with mental instability, and stayed poor and for all intents and purposes obscure for the duration of his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at age 37, from a gunshot wound he fired. [1] Self-portraits with bandages ear In
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interesting articles discussing major recent events in both the world of art history and the worldwide artist community. One of the most interesting stories I saw ran the week of October 2nd, and announced the recovery of two missing Van Gogh paintings. The two pieces, "Seascape at Scheveningen" and "Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen" were initially realized to have been stolen by art thieves from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam over 14 years ago. The paintings were recently discovered
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renderings of his surroundings and imbued each image with a deeper psychological reflection. Van Gogh’s legacy lives on having left a lasting impact on the world of art. Van Gogh is now viewed as one of the most influential artists having helped lay the foundations of modern art. It truly baffles me that no one really appreciated his art until after his
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