attention. This work is called “The Starry Night”, by Vincent Van Gogh. This painting was made in 1889. This is made of oil and canvas and the measures of the painting are 73.7 cm x 92.1 cm (29 in x 36 ¼ in). The artwork is currently located in Museum of modern art, in New York. The first time I saw it, it immediately cough my attention because of the uncommon way of painting that is used. The picture is basically the view of a village from a high point, from where it is possible to see the whole thing
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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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Database Environment Paper This database environment paper contains info about a database environment for an art museum. The art museum will track artwork, artists and locations of where specific art pieces are held in the museum. An analysis of the environment will be covered, along with a description of the problems and constraints. A description of the objectives of the database environment along with the scope and boundaries are included as well. Lastly, a small list of data specifications
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I have been in many places in short life like, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, but I have never been at nay museum before. My overall experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, In a short answer, was awesome. In a long answer, it changed everything I thought about history and it gave me the idea of what would’ve been like to lived in that time period. It was life experience which I will try to repeat. It makes me kind of sad to think that would never be able to meet great people in history like
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Chambers 01/14/13 Art 101 Week 9 Checkpoint Art is found in every community. Whether it is a billboard someone has painted to advertise a business, or a sculpture someone has sculpted. Art is what gives the community its personality. In order for the piece of art to stay where it is it has to be supported by the agency where it is located and also by the community in which it resides. Agencies where art is found as well as the general public provide the greatest support for art in the community
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(Mike) Professor O’Toole Capstone September 20, 2013 The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning On Capstone class, I had a chance to go to the Museum of Fine Arts. “The MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world, the collection in the MFA encompasses nearly 450000 works of art.” (About the MFA) A lot of professional artworks in the museum brought a great visual feast to me, but the one that most attracted my attention is a painting, called "The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning."
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was complex and multi-faceted. A storyteller at heart and self-described “people’s painter,” Andrews focused on figurative social commentary depicting the struggles, atrocities, and everyday occurrences in the world, but he was not satisfied to use art as a substitute for action. Benny Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, Georgia, a small farming community three miles from Madison. Andrews was one of 10 children in a family of sharecroppers; raised while it was still segregated in
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I picked the Getty Museum out of all the places available to me because it displays a variety of artifacts from many different time periods enabling us to see and imagine how life was hundreds of years ago. Over the span of history, art has ended up being an imperative society of humankind. Not just does art instructs the historical backdrop of humanity yet it goes on the feelings and thoughts that cannot be composed or verbal communicated. As history follows through to its logical end and progress
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this [building] that says, “I’m a museum,” or “Come in.” There are a lot of people that are not interested in high culture and think this is a drive-in bank or an office building. Most art museums in America have a problem with image. One of the things that makes me mad is that people think there is something wrong with the museum. The MMA is one of the most public in the country, and more heavily dependent on the mem- bership contribution than any other [museum]. Like most, it is underendowed and
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Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the Getty Center in Los Angeles for the first time. It was an incredible place and experience. The museum is isolated from the city, located at the very top of a mountain surrounded by breath taking panoramic views. The architecture of the Getty is very contemporary designed by Richard Meier. The interior and exterior of all the buildings are almost entirely built with white travertine, making it feel very bright and serene. All visitors must enter through
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