The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art‚ partially due to the museums façade‚ a striking granite building (Figure 1)‚ designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art‚ which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum’s opening in 1931
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Museum Artifact 737 likely represents a bichrome‚ wheel-made kylix fired during the Cypro-Geometric III period of the Cypriot Iron Age. The kylix‚ a drinking vessel shaped like a stemmed bowl or cup and possessing a height of 5.5 cm‚ resembles a chalice with a disk base of 3 cm connected to a bowl measuring 8 cm across its widest point. Marked with two sets of concentric circles on the interior of the bowl‚ the kylix draws strong influence from greek design during the Late Bronze Age. Joanna Smith
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of visual art. It has created impetus and inspiration for those artists wishing to produce a pure and transcendental art form.Many artists have discovered unconventional techniques in their art-making approach.Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright are the two influential forces in furthering the connection between music and art. in 1911 Kandinsky attempted to put order to tonal colors. In his famed 1912 essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art he explained how he associated certain colors with
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Bibliography or works cited (References Sheet) ● Lloyd Augustus Hall California State Polytechnic University‚ Pomo na. Brown‚ Mitchell. Lloyd Augustus Hall: Chemist and Inventor. Louisiana State University. Libraries‚ 1997. www.lib.Isu.edu/lib/chem/display/hall.html ● Maggie Lena Walker The Book of AfricanAmerican Women: 150 Crusaders‚ Creators‚ and Uplifters by Tonya Bolden‚ Adams Media Corporation‚ 1996 ● Elijah McCoy Scroll down the page for a profile of inventor Elijah McCoy
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William Lloyd Garrison‚ Religious Patriot William Lloyd Garrison believed that slavery was the “greatest evil of all” (Hollitz 136)‚ and that “there could be no compromise with evil” (Hollitz 136). Garrison strived to “persuade the entire nation of the sinfulness of slavery” (Hollitz 137)‚ he became a supporter of the abolition movement‚ fought against slavery‚ and advocated for human rights; William Lloyd Garrison was a religious patriot. Garrison was raised by his mother after his alcoholic
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date was March 21‚ 2017. Mike introduced me to the museum due to the connection and significance that it has for him and his family. His family‚ being partially Jewish‚ was persecuted during the Holocaust by the German Nazi army. Going around the museum gave me insight on what his family endured in the concentration camps which most of the time‚ these places exceeded the carrying capacity. While we were going through the right side of the museum‚ there is a history wall of the rise and fall of fascism
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Art Museum as a Ritual Duncan begins her article‚ “The Art Museum as Ritual‚” by comparing art museums to religious/ceremonial spaces‚ not only in architectural design but also in their purpose. She states‚ however‚ that unlike churches or temples‚ museums are secular places where “the secular truth became the authoritative truth.” Thus‚ a separation of church and state came to be an‚ as Duncan states‚ “religion…kept its authority only for voluntary believers.” She then goes on to the differences
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In 1996‚ the Neon Museum was established in order to bring more attention to the signs. “…the Neon Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to collecting‚ preserving‚ studying and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational‚ historic‚ arts and cultural enrichment.” In this contextual analysis‚ I will reaffirm the importance of the Neon Museum’s
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The Museum of Natural History Museums are essential for sustaining the world’s biological and cultural diversity. Yet they can do more without undermining their commitment to thorough and rigorous science. For example‚ they can increase the accessibility of their collections. The advent of new information technologies allows natural history museums to digitize collections and to make associated scientific data accessible to wide audiences. These technologies enable the sharing of data with countries
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My trip to Dallas Museum of Art On the 18th of June 2013‚ I decided to visit one of the greatest museums in Dallas. I was very excited to visit the museum because I have never been to any of the museums before in Dallas since I came to the United States of America. Therefore‚ when the professor said it is the part of a grade so I got more excited. I reached the downtown by noon‚ and parked our car outside the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art significantly improved
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