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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in China. At the age of 19‚ he began his art training under Chen Chong Swee at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In his third year‚ the principal of NAFA‚ Lim Hak Tai‚ asked him if he could teach the afternoon class and Chua agreed to it. Upon graduation in 1952‚ he began to teach in the Academy. Between 1957 and 1974‚ he was a commercial artist and made his mark with an exhibition at the Rising Art Gallery‚ which was also his first solo art exhibition. Chua was later best remembered
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objects and vessels for the Chinese imperial courts — to learn traditional techniques. Working with master potters‚ he learnt the processes of molding from life‚ decorating‚ glazing and firing The artist‚ Ah Xian‚ combines traditional Chinese decorative arts with the western portraiture tradition of sculpted busts‚ and in the "flesh" they are breathtakingly beautiful. "If I had not come to Australia I would not have had the idea. It was only after a few years in Australia that I had a better perspective
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for the view of the public eye. Kruger provokes people with her direct messages and bold images. She has worked in collaboration with other artists as well as galleries and museums. Barbara has also written several books. In her book Remote Control: Power‚ Culture‚ and the World of Appearances‚ she explains how she views art and society. It states that popular culture does not have the ability to do certain things. We must do things for ourselves and not rely on society to do it for us. She has amazing
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children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education. Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the
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ABSTRACT THE RESPONSIVE ROLES OF CAMPUS ART MUSEUMS/GALLERIES IN URBAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: A CASE STUDY ON ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION TO CHANGING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT This study examines how a campus art museum within an urban public university responds and adapts to competitive external environments by utilizing Kim S. Cameron’s theory of organizational adaptation as a conceptual framework. Lehman College Art Gallery (LCAG) in New York City was chosen for this specific case study based
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INTR405 Islamic Art museum “Graduation project” Presented to : Prof. Dr. Aleya Abd-Al.Hadi Presented by : Wafaa Abdallah Ashour ID : 121419 Project title : Islamic Art museum . Introduction : Islamic Art describes all of the arts that were produced in the lands
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it is able to monitor the beach and ocean activities and acts as a remote weather station. In the inside‚ the plain white color would brace the walls with paintings from exhibitions. I like paintings from the Africa continent and the ancient Asian art. In addition‚ sculptures would come in handy in the interior decorations. The black leather couches would have a clear appeal to the house and make it comfortable. Furnishing the house would be very easy as my preference would be artistic furniture
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Louvre was a castle which had been used to defense but not to live. In 14 century‚ Charlie V decided to live into the Louvre. During the French Revolution‚ Louvre was opened to public as a museum. After Napoleon was in power‚ he began to expand the scan of the Louvre. And at the period of Napoleon III‚ Louvre museum buildings were finished up completely. Until now the Louvre has become well-known in all over the world‚ and its success cannot do without its mission and vision. The vision is working in
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period and preserved in the Walters Art Museum‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland (Pl. 9). This new technique of the recumbent statues was only limited to the statues of the guardian lions‚ as the statues of the sphinx and the other recumbent animals preserved their old shape. This shape of the lion statues was used later by the Pharaohs of the same dynasty. There are two red granite lions‚ preserved in the British Museum (EA 2)‚
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