YOUR NAME: Fares Albahairi FULL CLASS NAME AND SECTION: Art 2140 Themes in Visual Culture INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: Marsha Pippenger FULL NAME OF MUSEUM OR GALLERY YOU VISITED: The Art Institute of Chicago DATE OF YOUR VISIT: 10/27/2013 WAS ADMISSION CHARGED‚ NO ATTITUDE OF STAFF: They are helpful the guy that helped me he was really funny. TITLE OF ARTWORK YOU CHOSE (if not titled‚ say Untitled and use italics): Paris Street: Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte. ARTIST’S NAME (if name
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The artifact that I picked from Metropolitan Museum of Art is called Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion’s Roar. It is a large wood statue of an Avalokiteshvara‚ the basic idol of Buddhism‚ completed around the 12th century in China during the Ming Dynasty. The Buddha Statue is a representation of the philosophical belief system of Buddhism. Different Buddha Statues have different meanings. Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara symbolizes "the compassion in the world and the willingness to bear the pain
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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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2015). There is an early example of this painting technique usage in the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ where frescoes recovered from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistorat at Boscoreale‚ an area north of Pompeii‚ are exhibited. These wall paintings‚ dated somewhere between the 40–30 B.C‚ use various trompe l’oeil devices to simulate objects and architectural details which in reality aren’t there (The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ 2004). Then‚ the purpose of the illusion was purely ornamental. Trompe l’oeil
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Rob Murphy Art and Culture Extra Credit My Second Visit to the Met 12/10/11 My second visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was equally enjoyable as the first. On my first visit‚ I hovered around the American wing and Egyptian wing mainly. On the contrary‚ my second visit consisted of a trip to enjoy the Greek and Roman wing. Wings such as the Egyptian‚ are big enough to re-visit‚ as I was able too. The works I was able to enjoy on my second trip were the “Cleopatra” sculpture‚ and the world
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In this paiting‚ Renoir painted Pere Fournaise‚ a restaurant owner and friend of the painter. The man is sitting and smoking a pipe. In front of hime are two vessels. One is his‚ the other for someone who’s not in the painting. Who knows? It may be an invitation to the viewer of Renoir. ALPHONSE Fournais was the owner of a restaurant where you could also rent boats located on an island in the Seine‚ Chatou around‚ ten miles west of Paris. Since the sixties customer Renoir became fixed to a restaurant
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I caught the faint laughter of the museum inhabitants and the shuffle of their feet‚ but other than that‚ I walked around the Metropolitan Museum in silence. The statues looked ethereal and stoic‚ the clay figures reminded me of a paused TV‚ but I was searching for something that I could hear. I strolled up to Gao Keming’s handscroll “Stream and Mountains under Fresh Snow” and the painting was more than what you could catch at a first glance. I caught the sound of a rushing steam‚ the stuffed crunch
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VISIT TO UST MUSEUM Date of Submission: December 14‚ 2011 As a Thomasian‚ it is just appropriate to visit the UST Museum where it showcases its rich collection of artifacts and important figures that defines our history. Here’s an historical background of the museum. The UST Museum is the oldest museum in the Philippines featuring a rich natural history collection‚ with a diorama of selected Philippine fauna. Other exhibits include the ethnography collection (cultural artifacts)‚ the oriental
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Temple for Assignment 1 William Liang Professor Crawford Art 100: Introduction to World Art Visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art Introduction For the first assignment in Dr. Crawford’s Art 100 class‚ the students have to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt Exhibit. From which we pick a artifact we thought was interesting and write a paper about the artifact; the artifact that I have chose is the Kneeling Statue of Senemut. The reason I found this artifact interesting‚ is because Senemut isn’t
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Sarah Livingston Art History 110 February 3‚ 2014 Museum Visit‚ LACMA 1/25/14 The third floor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses a permanent collection on Ancient Egyptian art. One of the pieces there is a 13" high figurine of the goddess Wadjet‚ sculpted from bronze in during the 26th Dynasty‚ est. 664-525 BCE. The figurine is in the round‚ with only the goddess’s feet attached the rectangular base she stands on. The hieroglyphs on the base identify her‚ as well as the name and parentage
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