Background Museum: The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a not-for-profit museum founded in the city of Universal‚ in the western United States. Originally chartered in 1925‚ under the founding name Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts‚ the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor‚ Jonathon A. McNeil. Before the museum went through a name change‚ however‚ in 1997 MMA benefited from a $28 million dollar bond election. This election allowed MMA to expand their
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The object that I chose to study is a board for the game of “Pegs and Holes‚” which I found at the Museum of Fine Arts. The game board dates to 2000-1500 C.E. and is from the Levant region in the Near East. The object itself is a stone board with multiple holes carved into the top. The pegs seen in the museum are reproductions of what would have originally been ivory pieces. Played by two people‚ the game’s objective seems to have been for a player to race their pegs through the holes and seize
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Museum of Modern Art in New York Roxanne Briano The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is the world’s leading modern art. Its exhibits have been a major influence in creating and stimulating popular awareness of modern art and its accompanying diversity of its styles and movements. The museum’s outstanding collections of modern painting‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ and prints range from Impressionisms to current movements. Moreover‚ there are exhibits of modern architecture‚ industrial design‚ sculpture
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Executive Summary The New York Metropolitan Museum of the Art is a non-profit institution with an established history as a behemoth of the artistic world. It was founded and maintains today the mission of “establishing and maintaining in the city of New York a museum and library of art‚ of encouraging and developing‚ the study of the fine arts‚ and the application of arts to manufacturing and practical life‚ of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects‚ and‚ to that end‚ of furnishing
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The Cleveland Museum of art has a major collection of works from Italy‚ roman‚ Egyptian‚ and African art. Also‚ the great collection of earthly painting‚ religious painting and sculptures go back to Ancient Rome and Greece. Various forms of art can be individual from other collection such as sculpture‚ portraits‚ and earthly‚ religious paintings. The Annunciation‚ by Bouts at the Cleveland museum of art falls into the category of religious art. The artist that made this painting‚ Albert Bouts‚ is
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Art has always been a significant part of any culture and society. Prominent artist are people who make a contribution not only to the world’s cultural heritage‚ but also make a certain country famous and even a bit special. In my opinion my favorite artist would be Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso‚ known as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. I shall say the evolution of a young Pablo Picasso to the experienced genius that had shaped the way we see art today. From his Blue
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Mayra Alfaro Mrs. Moore Art Appreciation December 5th‚ 2012 My trip at the Newark Museum of Art As I arrived at the Newark Museum of Art‚ I noticed that the outside of the Museum looked like a house‚ which gave me the feeling of it being a very welcoming place. It really was‚ especially the touring guide‚ who was very nice to our group ‚ and who really seemed very passionate about Art. At first‚ the inside of the museum looked very small‚ and that was because the waiting room at the beginning
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for my ethnographic essay was The Museum of Modern Art‚ commonly known as the MoMA. I traveled to the museum on Saturday‚ March 6th‚ 2017 and arrived at 3:11 pm. Surprisingly this museum was quite small at least in comparison to the grand museums I’ve visited in the past. The exhibit that I focused on was their ongoing collection gallery that displayed art from the 1880’s through the 1950’s. I chose this particular exhibit because whilst walking through the museum that this was by far the MoMA’s most
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Marcus at El Paso Museum of Art. My first thoughts of visiting a museum were “boring”‚ “unexcited” and I just imagined myself going one work of art to another and describing it as if it was the textbook. As soon as I stepped into the museum my whole perspective changed‚ and at the end of the visit I had a different mindset. Lyric Modern was an outstanding exhibition‚ I did not only describe each composition individually‚ but I also compared them to each other. The focus of visiting the art exhibition is
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manipulated and mounted upon a back-lit photo transparency. “While modern photography in the first half of the twentieth century may have been guided largely by the “decisive moment‚” after the 1960s‚ much of the photographic work circulating in the fine art realm could be characterized as highly premeditated‚ systematic‚ and staged: in other words‚ this work embodies an ethos of “think first‚ shoot later.” (MCA Exhibit Description) I think that Jeff Wall’s Nightclub captures the idea of “think first
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