Joslyn Art Museum I recently took a trip to the Joslyn Art Museum and was very impressed with the art‚ mainly the paintings. I had never really been to an art museum just to look around but I found that a lot of the paintings used the techniques that we discussed in class. I will be analyzing three paintings Fallen Angels by Francois Cibot‚ Saint Francis in Prayer by El Greco and Sacred Conversation- Madonna‚ Child‚ Saints and Donor by Giovani di Niccolo Mansueti. One of the most interesting
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Midwestern: Contemporary Art Case Study Negotiations March 20‚ 2012 Abstract Background The present paper reviews a case study as written by Lewicky‚ Saunders and Barry in the text Negotiations titled Midwestern::Contemporary Art‚ case number 6. Its focus is on a financial crisis that the museum is facing due to a donors failure to pay a five million dollar pledge. The donor was the museums previous president of the board of directors who had a falling out with the museum director over financial
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VA Art Museums Painting: Jimmie O’ Donnell Artist: Robert Henri Museum: Tuabman Date: 1924 Medium: Oil on canvas In this painting‚ I can clearly see a little boy sitting down. The boy is staring right at the painter‚ Robert Henri. The boy has a brown hat on‚ and a suit like appearance with a blazer‚ and a nice dress shirt. The boy seems to be worried at something. The background is a dark blue‚ indicating to me‚ something scary‚ and there are no forms of light. The art element that is the
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University Art Museum: Case study: The problem with this organization is quite simply that the campus does not know what thegoals of the museum and its associated faculty are or should be. This is a fundamental flaw in therunning of any organization‚ be it bureaucratic of collectivist. The museums goals had rested with thecurator‚ Miss Kirkhoff‚ who has been the most influential individual in the museums history. Now thatshe has retired‚ and her successor was found to have very different goals
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institution‚ the Dallas Museum of Art significantly improved its standing within the art world when it received the undeniably world-class modern and contemporary art collections of three prominent local collectors (the Hoffmans‚ the Rachofskys‚ and the Roses); the collections‚ gifted together in an unprecedented deal‚ totaled more than 900 works and with subsequent acquisitions has grown since the announcement to more than 1‚200. The Edward Larrabee Barnes-designed museum also contains impressive
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Art is portrayed in so many different views. When looking at each piece of art and its cultural background I was interested to see more. I enjoyed each piece of art and the inspiration behind it was even more eye opening to me. There is a historical perspective behind each piece of art and we as people have not taken the time to see how art was started. I have never looked at art in such a serious way until now‚ being able to see such a wide variety of art and how each piece was created was very
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the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan where we explored the Gauguin‚ Frank Lloyd Wright‚ and John Cage exhibits. I was very surprised with the amount of people that were in attendance at the museum that afternoon; I guess when one of the most famous museums in the country gives out free tickets everyone takes advantage of it. At first I just wanted go to the specific exhibits‚ but once I started looking around I staying for another hour looking at almost everything. I always thought that art was
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On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I took a tour of the museum with a lecturer. During the tour‚ the leader lectured on particular paintings. She told the know history behind each shown painting. She also gave the history of the period in which the painting was painted. The lecturer also helped everyone to understand what the colors in the paintings brought to each painting. While viewing the many paintings‚ the first one that caught my eye was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and
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discussed in class. Table at the Window‚ Pablo Picasso‚ 1919 7. A work of art made in the Renaissance. (hint: think 1400-beginning of the 1600’s) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist‚ Giuliano Bugiardini‚ 1510s 8. A drawing. Drawing of the Chief Painter Abol Hasan‚ Mohammad Shah‚ 1842-66 9. A piece that would be considered “art for day-to-day living.” Comb‚ Indian‚ Karnataka‚ 18th Century 10. An Egyptian work of art. Mosque Lamp‚ Egypt. 1320 11. A painting by Jackson Pollock. (hint:
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The Kennedy Museum of Art is the university museum at Ohio University in Athens‚ Ohio. The Museum is known for their Southwest Native American Collection that comprises extensively on weavings‚ jewelry‚ and silverwork from the cultures of the Diné (Navajo)‚ Zuni‚ and Hopi peoples‚ respectably. Additionally‚ the collections include a renowned print and photo collection‚ 20th century American art‚ and a notable African art collection. Together the staff executes exhibitions to be used as pedagogical
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