The museum I choose to go to was the Dora Nelson African American Museum. Dora Nelson was born a slave and was a part of the first black family in Perris, Ca. Perris had no black church. Blacks could attend Congregational Church, but not join. Dora held prayer meetings in her home at F and 7th St. She also organized the first black Baptist church and held prayer meetings in her backyard under a tree Perris, Ca. Dora Nelson African American Art & History Museum (DNAAAHM) exists to collect, preserve and make available, for review and study for present and future generations, artifacts, art printed material, records which document the history of the African American presence and contribution in the Perris Valley.…
I found the African collection to be the best ever. Aside from the amazing colorful paintings, and sculptures that I saw throughout the whole tour, the…
With great excitement this book is written to share my analysis of artwork from the three time periods that I was so fortunate to visit during my recent time travels.…
LACMA is the most astronomically immense museum in the western region of Los Angels and it receives proximate to one million people in a year. It's holding includes more than 100,000 works revealing the history of art from old days to the present. The museum additionally features films and concerts throughout the year (George, 1998).…
Jacob Lawrence was, a great visual artist who lived between 1917 to 2000 and is recognized as being among the visual artists of the twentieth century whose work were of great significance. He discovered his skill at a young age since he joined an art school in New York and also due to the fact that his mother had artistic skills in the preparation of carpets. He dropped out of school albeit continuing attending art classes to further pursue the honing of his skills (Potter, 2002). He was enlisted in the army during the Second World War where he did paintings and sketches and would later become a Professor of Arts in the University of Washington. Jacob…
Jasper Johns was born in Georgia in 1930 and grew up in South Carolina. After moving to New York City to pursue a career as an artist, he found fame in the 1950s for his paintings of flags, targets, and other ordinary objects; this work was a change from Abstract Expression and helped usher in the Pop Art…
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004 I attended the San Antonio Museum of Art. The painting that left the most lasting impression was Diego Rivera's "La Siesta." The painting, a "snapshot" of indigenous Mexican life, had the biggest reaction because of my Mexican background. I also chose this painting because Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist.…
What uniqueness Roy Lichtenstein presented is the content of his Pop Art works, Jasper John presented in his choice of materials and medium. Jasper Johns grew up in Georgia, in a place where he claims he was never exposed to art as a child and so he had no foundational idea of what art is or should be. This undoubtedly led to the choices that would make Jasper Johns a visionary of the Pop Art scene. After having a dream of the American flag, Johns began incorporating the image of the flag into his paintings. His second most famous rendition of it, known as Three Flags, probably epitomizes Pop Art’s fascination with using materials that were common and mundane. The American flag was an image that nearly every American was all too familiar with,…
During his life long career, Jasper Johns artist contributed more than 225 unique and challenged artworks that has set the standard for American art in general and for Pop art in particular. Among Johns’ artwork, the “Flag” (1954-55) is the painting that raised the very first wave in Pop Art world and remained to be one of the most influential artworks of its time .…
particular artists that stood out to me because of the way they either blended colors , used the…
I took a trip to the art exhibit because I knew this would be right up my alley. The art installations were fantastic, and explored the People, Land, and Creativity of California. The temporary glass work exhibit was my favorite. No photographs allowed (by the time I found out, I had already taken seven photographs) and its mature content so preferably no kids allowed. But to my surprise there were tons of kids. The first art work that truly caught my eye was Fortunato Arriola’s “Tropical Landscape” (1870.) The social realist painting consists of green and blue shades as the scene takes place at a river bend. The golden frame (which is 48 in HIGH x 76.75 in WIDE (121.92 cm HIGH x…
The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time, Italian, Spanish, and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea of what the paintings were like in these four centuries and reflected ideas of both the east and the west.…
I think that Jasper Johns' earlier work was more plain and just "there" while his later work was much more diverse. Some of his later paintings were extremely colorful and vibrant while others made you depressed by just staring at them. I also believed his later work took much more skill on his part. I find that the painting of the United States where it is very colorful and somewhat smudgy is great because it is very pleasing and it makes you wonder why he picked a map to paint. While some people think that his paintings did not take any skill and anyone could do them, I do not think that. Some people could reproduce his paintings but no one could have thought up the ideas in the first place but Jasper Johns.…
§ every word, phrase & pic was on a different block -- new block carved each time…
I also appreciated Storr’s mention of Agnes Martin. Although Storr did not describe Martin’s work in great detail, her name sounded familiar to me and her minimalistic style sparked some recollection. After a google search, I realized that I had seen some of Martin’s work in Taos, New Mexico at the Harwood Museum. The works shown there include the faint blue and white horizontal lines of Ordinary Happiness and a few other works that I don’t remember quite as well. It’s really turning out that I’ve seen paintings and pieces of art by many famous artists and have never realized it; they’ve just never stuck. I’m going to try to start paying closer attention when I’m looking at art.…