Syllabus ARH 4470/5482 Contemporary Art Spring 2013 Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:15pm Chemistry and Physics, Room 197 Instructor: Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel Assistant Professor, Department of Art + Art History Director, Master of Fine Arts Program in Visual Arts Contact information for instructor: Department of Art + Art History MM Campus, VH 235 Preferred mode of contact: alpesh.patel@fiu.edu Office hours: By appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays (preferably after class).
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The Portland Art Museum in Oregon is a spacious place that desires for thirsty questions from the endless walkers that shrouds across the echoing halls. It’s also probably the first real museum that I’ve ever been to in my life. The building is tall as a Greek God that extends to the sky with a mighty aura that surrounds it that seeks for green paper. From the inside however, a largely wide area that behemoths with deep empathy that screams out “Look at me!” in every direction. Many things went through
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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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below. Funerary Stele of Amenemhat, c. 2000 BCE. Painted limestone. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Located on page 59 in the textbook. Flight into Egypt, from the Infancy of Christ Window, c. 1140-1144 CE. Stained and painted glass. The Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Located on page 264 in the textbook. Tile Mosaic Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, c. 1354 CE. Glazed and cut ceramic tiles. The Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Located on page 194 in the textbook. After learning about
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The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of cultural institutions, including art, natural history, and science museums, as well as theaters, zoos, and historical sites. Schools gladly endured the expense and disruption of providing field trips because they saw these experiences as central to their educational mission: schools exist not only to provide economically useful skills in numeracy and literacy
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Alison Robinson Art 11 Prof. Justin Campoy Controversial art exhibit What makes a painting controversial? Maybe something that attacks our religious concepts can be controversial; maybe anything that contains nude matter is controversial, or maybe causes a great debate. Well, none of this is wrong because people have general norms related to such matters. Paintings often become controversial when it goes against commonly accepted
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* Funerary Stele of Amenemhat, c. 2000 BCE. Painted limestone. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Located on page 59 in the textbook. * Flight into Egypt, from the Infancy of Christ Window, c. 1140-1144 CE. Stained and painted glass. The Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Located on page 264 in the textbook. * Tile Mosaic Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, c. 1354 CE. Glazed and cut ceramic tiles. The Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Located on page 194 in the textbook. 2. Next, compare
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* Funerary Stele of Amenemhat, c. 2000 BCE. Painted limestone. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Located on page 59 in the textbook. * Flight into Egypt, from the Infancy of Christ Window, c. 1140-1144 CE. Stained and painted glass. The Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Located on page 264 in the textbook. * Tile Mosaic Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami, c. 1354 CE. Glazed and cut ceramic tiles. The Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Located on page 194 in the textbook. 2. Next, compare
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Museum of Egyptian Modern Art The Museum of Modern Egyptian Art is considered one the most important and famous art galleries for modern and contemporary art in Egypt, located in the opera House in zamalek. This essay shows how this art gallery has successfully promoted art in Egypt and attracts artists and non-artists. The gallery holds hundreds of different artwork pieces from late centuries up till now, which make people still enjoying going to this valuable museum either an
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Analysis: New Bedford Whaling Museum Problem Statement The main question of the case is was it enough what Anne Brengle did over the 11 years of work for the Museum? According to the story, the question means all actions and management changes of the New Bedford Whaling museum Executive director’s style. The Executive Director Anne Brengle faces different challenges over a period of 11 years and leads this non-profit organization (The New Bedford Whaling Museum) to improvement of its condition
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