Bodhissatva from the Gandhara period, but also goes through the history of Buddha. The website is also reputable because it is a museum located in New York, Houston and Hong Kong. Behrendt, Kurt. Gandhara. Met Museum. Electronic. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gand/hd_gand.htm. I chose this as a source because it is from a very credible museum, the Metropolitan Museum. It is even a resource used in class. It goes over Gandhara as well as including helpful images. Another head of a Bodhisattva
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March 16, 2013 For my cultural event, I chose to go to the Walters Museum, in Baltimore Md. I took my wife with me as she used to do an internship there years ago, and it is her favorite museum. I myself am not a typical museum enthusiast, as well I feel there is only one good place in Baltimore, and that is Johns Hopkins hospital. Nonetheless, I looked this as a nice way to spend a day with her, and did approach the museum with an open mind, as it was a new experience, and she was excited to
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separate 10. _____ | to take two weeks | to take 6. _____ | | Task 2 Questions 11 – 16 Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE | Well known for | 11. _________ | Complex consists of | concert rooms theatres cinemas art galleries public library restaurants12. _________ | Historical background | 1940 – area destroyed by bombs 1960s – Centre was 13. _________In 14. _________ – opened to public | Managed by |
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ART 110 – Art Appreciation North Carolina Museum of Art Assignment Contemporary Art Section 1. Find these three images. Which one do you like best and why? a. Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman, Red and Yellow Background b. Karel Schmidt-Rottluff, Portrait of Emy c. Michael Richards, Tar Baby vs St Sebastian My favorite of the three specified images in the Contemporary Art section of the North Carolina Museum of Art is hard to choose. I liked all three pieces for different reasons.
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Rational A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artefacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historicalimportance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the
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EL Paso Museum of History This was my first time at the El Paso Museum of History and I found it really interesting. To begin, at the entrance of the museum there are some digital huge touch screens that have a map that guide you to the major areas in our city of El Paso. Then I went straight to the second floor because the first floor was not available at that time. On the second floor we found items from Fort Bliss. The exhibitions were mainly objects from the military with a lot of history behind
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Public museums and art galleries are not necessary because people can see the objects stored in those places on the Internet.To what extent do you agree or disagree? With the fast development of science and technology, an increasing number of people are likely to enjoy art stuffs by Internet for its convenience and speedy. In this case, some argued that public museums and art galleries should be abandoned. However, in my view, this argument is not convincing for the following reasons. The infornations
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City still ranks the top museum globally and nationally with more than two million works of art, probably with the oldest pre-historic pre-pottery neolithic, 11,000–6900 B.C. along with the beaded belt “umusha” work from the Zulu or Nguni people year 1900 to Present. The Art Institute of Chicago ranks the second top museum nationally with more than 300,000 works of art which also carries masterpieces of arts. Both museums have great educational programs
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include solo shows at the Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC) in 1995, and the Midland Center for the Arts (Midland, MI) in 2010. His work has been part of group shows at several museums including Guild Hall in East Hampton, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga and the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York. Clifford Smith’s work is part of a number of public collections including the Yale University Art Gallery; the Greenville Museum of Art and the New Hampshire Historical Society
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Women are beautiful By Maria Batrakova Group 21 D Free and beautiful, that was how one of the greatest innovators of photography, Garry Winogrand, pictured women. (Here you can see a photo of him: http://imgur.com/AjnXCe6) Due to Art Blart (Art Blart, 2011) he was considered as one of the most distinguished photographers of the twenties-century in America. Winogrand's amazing exhibition includes 85 spontaneous photographs taken between 1960 and 1975 in and around New-York city. (Series of
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