Chicago Art Museum Research Paper
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Museum
1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. I choose to journey down town to see the so much talked about Vincent Van Gogh exhibit. As a waited in line I meet a student of Colombia College he told me that you do not have to pay to get in donations are welcome. I was confused and unsure what he meant. He explained to me that College students could offer a donation of one dollar or fifty cents as admission to the museum. So from the start my experience was very positive. Many people were discussing the exhibit. Everyone seemed to be very impressed. The lines for the entry were so long due to the tight security because of American on alert. It was good to see since the museum has …show more content…
Kathryn’s artwork is an expression of her prospective on the world. Kathryn explains, “It is my desire to pass along to others through the otherworldliness of the infrared medium a sense of mystery and deep yearning for the ineffable, for the holy, and beyond.” Infrared film captures a segment of the invisible spectrum of light waves. The camera is seeing something we cannot see. The end result is an image that resembles physical existence, as we perceive it yet is different enough that we can feel it suggesting a deeper reality. This is the only thing that I can recall that was cool from my child hood as a museum …show more content…
The Don and Ada Rice Wing, Folk Art and Furniture were an unusual surprise. It was not at all what I had expected. Everything is displayed like you are in a classy antique furniture store. All the furniture is place on stage like settings and should not be touched. I felt like I was in my grandmother’s house. It was cool because it was really unlike to expected norm. The paperweight collection was like something out of a collector’s book. It had absolutely everything you could think of. From bug weights to beads to actual flowers. It just showed me what art could be like even if you use the sample things around
Art Museum
1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. I choose to journey down town to see the so much talked about Vincent Van Gogh exhibit. As a waited in line I meet a student of Colombia College he told me that you do not have to pay to get in donations are welcome. I was confused and unsure what he meant. He explained to me that College students could offer a donation of one dollar or fifty cents as admission to the museum. So from the start my experience was very positive. Many people were discussing the exhibit. Everyone seemed to be very impressed. The lines for the entry were so long due to the tight security because of American on alert. It was good to see since the museum has …show more content…
Kathryn’s artwork is an expression of her prospective on the world. Kathryn explains, “It is my desire to pass along to others through the otherworldliness of the infrared medium a sense of mystery and deep yearning for the ineffable, for the holy, and beyond.” Infrared film captures a segment of the invisible spectrum of light waves. The camera is seeing something we cannot see. The end result is an image that resembles physical existence, as we perceive it yet is different enough that we can feel it suggesting a deeper reality. This is the only thing that I can recall that was cool from my child hood as a museum …show more content…
The Don and Ada Rice Wing, Folk Art and Furniture were an unusual surprise. It was not at all what I had expected. Everything is displayed like you are in a classy antique furniture store. All the furniture is place on stage like settings and should not be touched. I felt like I was in my grandmother’s house. It was cool because it was really unlike to expected norm. The paperweight collection was like something out of a collector’s book. It had absolutely everything you could think of. From bug weights to beads to actual flowers. It just showed me what art could be like even if you use the sample things around