Running head: VISTING A MUSEUM Visiting a Museum Victoria Johnson Dr. Gerald Franz Humanities – World Cultures II March 16‚ 2014 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to share the experience I had visiting a museum for the first time. I believe it was a great event and feel every person should go to one in their life. During my visit I learned about the author of the classical novel‚ about the many artifacts on display‚ and about different characters‚ and their achievements. After you read
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During our visit to the Blanton Museum on Thursday we analyzed Francisco de Goya’s series of prints including La tauromaquia (1815-1816)‚ Los desastres de la guerra (1810-1820)‚ Los disparates (1815-1823) and other paintings selected to be featured in the exhibit. The first room was headed by a self portrait of Goya in Traje de luces introducing the La tauromaquia series. I was taken aback when I walked into the first exhibit room and saw the amount of detail in each of Goya’s pieces. We can only
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Museum visit paper The piece of art I chose is “Landscape” (Garden at St. Tropez) by Henri Edmond Cross (French‚ 1856–1910) this piece was done in oil on canvas. This was Marjorie Tiefenthaler Bequest and partial gift of Louise Uihlein Snell Fund of the Milwaukee Foundation M1996.29. As I took my time walking around the Art Museum‚ it was very difficult for me to choose just one. Nonetheless when I saw The Garden at St. Tropez by Henri Edmond Cross‚ I was amaze at how well the painter
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The Henderirum Museum is creating a new exhibit that deals with psychology of the mind and how it handles life experiences. The Art pieces can show symbolic representations of how the indivual minds process everyday events to extremely traumatizing ones. The exhibit will be focus on helping people see this events in a physical medium‚ inspiring people to observe theses changes in a different perspective. This commission asks for an art piece that asks for creative work on how the human nature deals
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At the cooper Hewitt museum‚ a few pieces stood out to me in the Scarps and Kravis exhibits. On the first floor of the Cooper Hewitt museum‚ there is the “Scraps: Fashion‚ Textiles and Creative Rescue” exhibit. The exhibit reveals the work done by three designers; Luisa Cevese‚ Christina Kim‚ and Reiko Sudo. I truly enjoyed this exhibit‚ because it contained fabrics‚ fashion‚ and textiles‚ which are all intriguing to me. As a fashion designer‚ I was very interested in the textures and patterns incorporated
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Our class had a fieldtrip to the Ayala museum to control inspiration and to observe the vintage filipinana costumes. I havent been in a museum since grade-school‚ so I got precise mad when I arrived there. Before we went upstairs‚ where the main exhibits argon‚ we walked around the lobby theater of operations where there are pictures from Cory Aquinos memorial and articles of bloodstained habit that Ninoy wore. Also in the ground floor is an exhibit of new(a) art‚ which I find very interesting. We went
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In the Folk Museum The concept of belonging The Museum A museum is a place of past. A folk museum celebrates the lives and lifestyle of a bygone era. This particular ‘folk museum’ is displaying the culture and life of the early Australians. The persona feels disconnected from the experience – the almost deathly scene betrays his‚ and others‚ lack of interest. Through the use of imagery‚ the poet sets a cold‚ stale‚ dark and a silent place and this highlights the persona’s feeling of not belonging
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equally hated by men and women all around the world. Most people are taught from a young age that being ‘fat’ is not good. It is unattractive‚ horrifying‚ and moreover‚ it is wrong. Society does not like it‚ so neither should I. An essay by Jennifer A. Coleman named “Discrimination at Large” explores and identifies the struggles of being a big woman in today’s society and how she is shamed for something as simple as her looks‚ including hateful slurs and horrible comments. The thing is‚ I can hide a drug
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Marble Statue of the Diadoumenos Waqas Yaqoob Professor Vitali 12/8/2010 Art History 1 Marble statue of the Diadoumenos is a Roman statue by Polykleitos from the Flavian period‚ A.D. 69-96. Polykleitos was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early fourth century BC. Next to Phidias‚ Myron and Kresilas‚ he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity. He was of the school of Argos‚ a contemporary of Phidias and‚ in the opinion of the Greeks‚ his equal.
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exactly forty-four years before I was born‚ makes me connect with it even more. Finally‚ after 9 years of looking up facts and watching documentaries‚ I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Farmington Hills‚ Michigan. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ this museum in particular “may be the most provocative museum of them all” (“What They’re Saying‚” par. 1). Just driving past the building makes a strong statement due to the museum’s exterior wall which resembles the barbed wire fences from a
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