Ghale Prof. Bonnie Holt Art 194 Asian Art Museum Research Paper 04/01/2018 For the Museum Assignment, I decided to explore images of Buddha through various time periods and places in Asia. Since I came to know that the first Sundays of every month, known as Target Sunday, I got free ticket to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. I surfed into museum official site to obtain more information on art and sculpture of Buddha
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Meadows Museum – SMU Dallas From the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall, where a canvas oil painting of Nude Lady Removing Garter, by Jane Doe, to the permanent collection of Cubist style paintings by Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Diego Maria Rivera; The Meadows Art Museum at SMU was an eye-opening experience even for the most cynically skeptical and unrefined of visitors as myself. The building itself is unremarkable, although clean and very symmetrical with its classic box-style museum aesthetics, it
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I visited the Chrysler Museum of Art, on September 5th, 2013 this was my first time attending since I was a child. The Museum was free to tour and took donations. I was amazed by the beautiful sculptures as well as the paintings and how they can be well preserved for a very long time. One item that interested me came from the African art section of the museum. This item was the African drum; the drum was made of made of wood and hide, in the Cameroon Grasslands. Early- to mid-20th century Cameroon
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I will 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
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2004, The Coleman Art Museum, located in Universal City, declared a loss of $383,715 marking the third annual loss in a space of three (3) consecutive years. This worrisome trend brought a decision by the management to assign Ashley Mercer, the Director of development Affair and Donald Smith, Director of Finance and Administration to proffer recommendations to the situation. The Coleman Art Museum (CAM) was founded in 1925, it was originally named Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts but was changed
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Art Museum Database What is Needed and What Can Go Wrong Craig Hill University of Phoenix Analysis- A database needed to accomidate an art museum would be vary simple an very complicated at the same time. The database would need to have the names of the artists, name of the art and where it is located. Along with the entities stated above, there would also be the details that are unseen in the database. When the art was purchased or donated, the estimated value, the year it was painted
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Appleton Museum of Art Rachel R. Solomon Strayer University: Online HUM112: World Cultures II Dr. Naomi Sanderovsky March 16, 2014 Appleton Museum of Art My fiancée, two of my three future step-children and I visited the Appleton Museum of Art this past weekend on Sunday afternoon, March 9, 2014. I know the boys would have rather been shooting paint guns outside but I had done a little research on what exhibitions were showing and I hoped their father could handle a preteen and young teenager
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project and course assignments. U.S. Art Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/ National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: http://www.mfa.org/ The Phillips Collection: http://www.phillipscollection.org/ The Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php Whitney Museum of American Art: http://www.whitney.org/ Guggenheim Museum New York: http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index
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Extra Credit Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum I visited the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum located on the grounds of the Seattle Center on July 31, 2012. Having always been an admirer of Chihuly’s work, my anticipation to visit the museum set the bar high as for what I expected to see; and I was not disappointed. The museum was divided into three main sections, the Exhibition Hall, the Glass House and a Garden. It is in the Exhibition Hall where the greatest variety of work is displayed.
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Detail of "The Night Gathering" by Ed Pien Ed Pien has a permanent scar on the tip of his index finger. After discovering the traditional Chinese way of cutting paper several years go, he creates grand 3D realms and environments with an X-Acto knife. Welcome to Haven of Delight, Pien’s hauntingly beautiful exhibit on display at The Rooms Provincial Gallery. “I cut vertically,” says Pien. “Even though I have an image to work with while cutting, I am still doing a lot of improvisation in order to
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