craziness surrounding this past week‚ I decided to spend a day in London visiting a few museums. Everyone is stressed about writing papers‚ including myself‚ and I decided that spending a day looking at art and history would be a nice break. On Thursday‚ I visited the Holburne Museum‚ Bath’s art museum. The museum had a great collection of art and small objects from the height of the Georgian period in Bath. The museum was also the starting point for the Lantern Procession‚ an annual event that kicks
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Brooke Payson 10/27/13 Danforth Art Museum Photograph Essay For many‚ abandoned buildings hold keys to the past. They are places frozen in time- authentic‚ eerie‚ and intriguing all in the same. Photographer and mixed media artist Samuel Quinn is one willing to break laws and trespass property in order to explore and capture these deserted wonders. In 2008‚ while in the South Shore driving his friend home‚ Quinn passed an eye-catching abandoned white house that stood lifeless in between two
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the Geometric period. They were said to have been monumental grave markers. Most kraters were typically large‚ some over forty inches. They were made of ceramic and painted with linear designs‚ separated by registers. These vases were used to depict art in order to reveal a story. The artist wanted its viewers to capture the sense of realism in their design. The designs on the krater demonstrate what is known today as a funeral procession. In the first and widest register‚ figures surround the elevated
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Claude Monet‚ Haystacks (Effect of snow and sun)‚ French Impressionism (1891)‚ Oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art is full of exciting and mesmerizing thousands and thousands of pieces of artwork. One could find an artwork as prehistoric as the early people and as recent as from the 21st century at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However‚ from the small list of objects which I was given‚ I had to choose only one to discuss‚ which is a really hard task if you ask me. Writing about one
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Museum Paper [pic] Statue of Kaipunesut. c.2528-2520 B.C. Egyptian. Accession Number: 26.2.7 The Statue of Kaipunesut dates back to the fourth dynasty in the Old Kingdom of Egypt. It was excavated at Saqqara‚ a vast burial ground. This specific piece was located at the mastaba of Kaemheset‚ which was Kaipunesut’s brother. It was carved out of acacia wood which is a native timber of Egypt. The native wood did not create the highest standard of sculpture because it was knotty and
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Intro to Art/Art 100 Pre-Raphaelites I visited National Gallery of Art‚ Washington DC on Friday‚ March 29‚ 2013 to see the exhibition “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design‚ 1848-1900”. It is the first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings‚ sculptures‚ works on paper‚ and decorative art objects. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood‚ formed in 1848‚ shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting
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Women are beautiful By Maria Batrakova Group 21 D Free and beautiful‚ that was how one of the greatest innovators of photography‚ Garry Winogrand‚ pictured women. (Here you can see a photo of him: http://imgur.com/AjnXCe6) Due to Art Blart (Art Blart‚ 2011) he was considered as one of the most distinguished photographers of the twenties-century in America. Winogrand’s amazing exhibition includes 85 spontaneous photographs taken between 1960 and 1975 in and around New-York city. (Series of his
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School of Design‚ and she wants to get the MFA in Sculptures from the University of Miami. Brown is vice-president of a Artists Association in Ft Lauderdale‚ FL‚ where she oversees the art perspective and work of the projects. The Inaccessible Keys is the name of the art piece. It is located at the Frost Art Museum in FIU. While the image does look like it can’t be reached or examined underneath it‚ it is not a key thing to know except if the person is a scientist who is trying to gather data for
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Fashion Essay Art‚ Clothing‚ and Fashion; when talking about fashion it is hard not to discuss clothing; and when speaking about clothes‚ it is hard to omit the influence of art. Thus‚ these three words go hand in hand to give meaning to each other. Art‚ clothing‚ and fashion influence each other and provide basis for us to understand each one. Anyone who has ever visited an art show or art museum can easily see that art comes in various forms. Art ranges from an oil painting hanging on the wall
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According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ this type of figurine‚ during the late second millennium B.C. was commonly described as a fertility figure and it is possible that the hairstyle and earrings (called ear spools‚) worn by the female may have been indicative of social status (2000.) The shape of the body and it proportions are said to be possibly influenced from the site it was found‚ Las Bocas in the present state of Puebla‚ Mexico (Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ 2000.) Both
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