Danny Caceres ART 201 Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Professor Applegate Reaction Paper: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the largest art collections in the world. The museum also known as The Met is an enormous‚ marvelous architectural structure that takes up the entire block on 82nd street in Manhattan. The Met has around two billion art pieces stored and displayed in its art galleries. Entering inside‚ I recognized myself
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this class‚ I visited The Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. It is one of the most outstanding and largest museums of Art in United States. It was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition. This museum is basically formed and grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Originally‚ this museum was a collection of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Collectively
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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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People who are an art lover‚ they’ll love and enjoy this museum. I know it must not be one of the art museum that is on the list of many people “to do list” once they land in New York City because it is not as popular as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However‚ it is a better choice than the Metropolitan Museum because it is a remarkable way to spend an afternoon in an art museum and to view a variety of recognizable artists. The Frick Museum is a jewel. You’re allowed to wander around the Frick’s
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marble figures should be located. Although these famous statues originated in Greece‚ for the past two centuries‚ these historical pieces of artwork were not located in their homeland. Currently‚ they are being preserved and stored within the British Museum where they are displayed for many tourists and travelers from all around the world to see. Greece has requested to have them returned‚ which has in turn created an international conflict between England and Greece. Just like any conflict‚ there are
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Design Analysis The Guggenheim Museum is the work of architect Frank O. Gehry of the United States. The project acted as an urban acupuncture and played a very starring role towards urban transformation and revitalization of the site and the immediate extent area. Once the project was finalized‚ it turned out to be the emblem of the city of Bilbao in Spain. The structure is put together in Avant-garden architecture ordinarily an exemplification of the twentieth century. The structure forms a framework
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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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Judge‚ Stephanie Art 100 Museum Essay and Online Museum Essay Bibliography: "William-Adolphe Bouguereau Biography." Bouguereau Biography. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.bouguereau.org/biography.html>. "MFAH | Top 100 Highlights | #1 - The Elder Sister." MFAH | Top 100 Highlights | #1 - The Elder Sister. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2012. <http://www.mfah.org/art/100-highlights/Elder-Sister-Bouguereau/>. Online Museum Essay William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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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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History of Kyrgyzstan Museum Essay The mummy The topic of my museum essay is a mummy lying in the museum. This artifact interested me a lot because of its uniqueness and originality. As far as I know‚ this is the only mummy keeping in our country. It is kept here from the 5th century. Its origin is the burial site of Kara-Bulak‚ Batken region‚ Osh province. The condition of a mummy is a natural state of mummification. The artifact itself is very interesting. There is a juniper coffin‚ the
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