My What A Beauty! The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most well-known museums, not only in America, but in the whole world. Many people come to this great city just to visit this incredibly popular museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 and is located in New York City’s Central Park. It is visited by more than 5 million people annually from all over the world. When I first knew about the assignment about meeting at the museum I was not very enthused. I am not much
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – The Painting That Changed It All Being a volunteer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City allows me to meet many interesting people with many different views. Today I had a group who had the pleasure of viewing Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon for the first time. They had the same reaction I did originally! It was hideous! It was not until I had done further research on the painting that I was able to see its beauty. Today was the day I took
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prevailed because many of the wall paintings of this era did not survive. One of the more well-known pottery painters of this era was Euphronios. His terracotta piece Euphronios Krater tells a story from Homer’s Odyssey and was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for many years until the integrity of how it was exported was compromised and questioned and the Metropolitan was forced to return it. An interesting thing about the Greeks is that they honored achievement by creating beautiful,
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ART 101 ART HISTORY Module 1- CASE The ideology and culture of the Renaissance and Baroque Eras are reflected in artwork from the eras. Renaissance art seems to the moment before an event took place and the Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich deep color, and intense light and dark shadows. Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring. For example Michelangelo designed his David composed and still before he fights against Goliath. In
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hair style or an outfit to put on where everything needs to make sense or match, it just needs to appeal to the viewer, and depending on the viewer’s mood at the time, the art pieces can be very different. The first art piece I selected was from the Museum of Modern Art; The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 by Henri Rousseau. (Rousseau) I liked this oil on canvas painting for its simplicity and calmness. Henri Rousseau, a toll collector by trade, was a French Post-impressionist self-taught painter; even though
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outdoor exhibit is an old warehouse that features the works of world famous graffiti artists and allows for quite the contrast to the museum that is located on the opposite side of the street: MoMA PS1. Founded in 1971 as an art and urban resource institute, PS1 serves as the leading contemporary art center in New York and since 2000, became an affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art. Sizeable alabaster walls and open space directed attention to the fresh, contemporary artistry that hung on the walls
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Mashell Chapeyama Topic: Art History Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Key Words: les demoiselles, Bonheur de vivre, Applied African Art Picasso and Cezanne Art evolved over many centuries to come to where it is today. Some artists copied or learned from others. That is what occurred about a century ago. Picasso and Matisse learnt a lot from Cezanne. Therefore there are similarities in the work of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. Matisse and Picasso took on cubists
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More than 350 authentic paintings that include the depiction of a great variety subjects, from mythological to historical to religious, have been identified to date as his. Powerful religious and political figures were impressed with his masterful artistic skills. But even more so, these luminaries were attracted to his innovative ability to express religious ideas and implant political meanings into his work that accorded with their ideals. His virtuosity allowed him to paint for the likes of high-ranking
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When looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 noticing the differences within each painting, in terms of their lines, is relatively easy. In the overall painting, the first difference noticed is the overall flow of the painting and the tone that it is set in. When it comes to The Starry Night you can see instantly that van Gogh idealized nature and its effect of the world. The lines throughout the painting are harsh and rough. The lines especially around
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Reading Art – Understanding Iconography The art work that I chose was Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The four roles that an artist take on is one to make us the public experience and see the world in new and innovative ways. I think that the second role that the artist takes is to make a visual record of places, places and events of their time. The third role that the artist takes on is to make functional things such as objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate these
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