Summer Mountains (1973.120.1)". Included in this paper is why I choose this work‚ an assessments to its subject matter and content‚ and the works value in China and western culture. I began my search at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. I have always been a fan of Asian art‚ particularly China. For that purpose‚ I started my search in Eastern China and choose to pick a painting from a time of history that has always fascinated me‚ the 11th century. I started going through a numerous amount
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born in Newark‚ New Jersey in 1945. She studied at Syracuse University‚ Parsons School of Design‚ and the School of Visual Arts in New York and has exhibited all over the world. She has worked from having a design job at "Mademoiselle Magazine"‚ soon becoming the head designer. Later working as a graphic designer‚ art director‚ and picture editor in the art departments at "House and Garden"‚ "Aperture" and other publications. This greatly influenced her work as an artist. Barbara
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1889‚ and it is considered a post-impressionist art work. It has a size of 73.70 x 92.10 cm. The medium used was oil on canvas. Its current location is in The Museum of Modern Art in New York‚ NY. Additionally‚ the art work Reclining Nude by Henri Matisse was created in 1935. Its size is 66 x 92.7 cm‚ and the medium used was oil on canvas. It is currently located in The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore‚ Maryland. Therefore‚ even though these two art works are from different authors‚ they do have
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representation of a person‚ animal or mythical being produced by sculpturing‚ modeling‚ or casting. (Webster Dictionary Online‚ n.d.).’’ The statue of Memi and Sabu as well as the seated statue of Gudea has a great historical and cultural value in art history. Back in the Middle Ages‚ statues were used in telling stories of culture and societies and a form of enlightenments to the people as opposed to the modern day writing and digital designs which is readily available for use. It helps to inform
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exhibitions and publications. The movement spanned five turbulent decades‚ including global wars‚ economic depression‚ technological advance and massive social change. Inspired by early European avant-gardes2‚ the modernist movement3 affected many forms of arts and commerce. While modernism was expressed differently in each of these forms‚ the common thread was a rejection of traditional representations of the world. The focus was on form over content and style over subject matter. The modernist approach
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Fame of Great Americans is a museum located at Bronx Community College that focuses on Americans that made history‚ change American society and culture. Many students pass through this landmark without knowing the reason why is it there including me. I have always wondered why is it that this museum is located at this campus and not in another place where it could be noticeable like in the museum of Natural History‚ Grand Central‚ Central Park‚ or in the Metropolitan Museum or any other popular places
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John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City‚ California and continues to live and create art in California (John Baldessari Bio). “[Baldessari] attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute‚ Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley”‚ he then continued to teach from 1970-1988; Baldessari went back to teaching from 1966-2007 (John Baldessari Bio). With over 200 solo exhibitions around the world‚ Baldessari uses multiple mediums
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rebellious ideas and actions in the 20th century. He was born in France but moved to the USA‚ and became a US citizen in 1955. His works were known as “Ready-mades”. Duchamp’s ready-mades changed what art meant. He bought elements that would never have been regarded as art. Some people saw it as less art and more “putting together”. This movement was called “Dadaism”. This essay will discuss two artworks; “The Weeping Woman” - by Pablo Picasso‚ and‚ “The Shovel” – by Marcel Duchamp. “The Weeping
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Sculpture art during the Baroque period brought us many beautiful pieces as artists began to give their work more ornate and fancier detail. French Sculptor Clodion (Claude Michael) embraced his era’s taste for antiquity and received a number of commissions throughout his career‚ which spanned the last decades of the ancient régime through the French Revolution and Napoleon ’s reign (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). While his theme was most often Neoclassical‚ a name given to pieces of art that were
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afterlife and shared similar underlying ideas; nevertheless‚ their way to prepare the deceased for the next life and funeral services differed in many ways. To illustrate their practices‚ I have chosen two artifacts displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met): a coffin from Ancient Egypt and a cinerary urn from Ancient Roman’s times. Both pieces reflect different ways of treating the corpses of their deceased and prepare the dead for the journey to the afterlife which undoubtedly was a long and
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