A group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold‚ breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum‚ its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant‚ beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big‚ brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum‚ it was even more elegant on the inside
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Derain’s Turning Road and Benton’s Haystack After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time‚ I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw last week‚ two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain’s The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton’s Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter‚ they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract
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ENG 270.8328 July 16‚ 2008 Auden ’s Museum of Fine Arts There are many people who cannot help but to wonder the meanings of life and everything it brings us. Some wait for meanings to come to them‚ while others seek meanings. Whether one seeks or waits he will find that meanings are influenced by myth‚ history‚ experience‚ events and proven facts. Many poets use history or myth to tell their own stories or express their own points of view on certain topics. W.H. Auden was born
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Period 1 2/26/12 Enrichment Utah Museum of Fine Arts On February 25‚ 2012‚ I went to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. There was a traveling art exhibit from Syracuse University Art Galleries that would be there till March 6.. The exhibit contained eighteen pieces of artwork by Georges Rouault. The exhibition is of his Cirque de Letoile Filante project‚ which consists of pieces centered on the single theme of a circus. His style of art would fall under the classification
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The object that I chose to study is a board for the game of “Pegs and Holes‚” which I found at the Museum of Fine Arts. The game board dates to 2000-1500 C.E. and is from the Levant region in the Near East. The object itself is a stone board with multiple holes carved into the top. The pegs seen in the museum are reproductions of what would have originally been ivory pieces. Played by two people‚ the game’s objective seems to have been for a player to race their pegs through the holes and seize
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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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was the director of the Museum of Fine Arts‚ Boston during this time period of change within the Contemporary Wing. In a PR Newswire Malcolm Rogers addressed the upcoming changes to the museum: ’The designs embody an architectural statement that is not only intensely beautiful but also innovative and precisely functional. The architects have responded magnificently to the needs of the Museum. Their designs will stimulate a revitalized visitor experience within the Museum as well as a greater connection
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Background Museum: The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a not-for-profit museum founded in the city of Universal‚ in the western United States. Originally chartered in 1925‚ under the founding name Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts‚ the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the museum’s main benefactor‚ Jonathon A. McNeil. Before the museum went through a name change‚ however‚ in 1997 MMA benefited from a $28 million dollar bond election. This election allowed MMA to expand their
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Analysis: A son of the president of a university dedicated an Art Museum to a university he was once an alumnus in. The son was a rich investor in a Bank and gave the Art Museum his small high quality collections of art. He worked as the art museum director without payments until he passed away. During his management to the museum‚ he collection some art pieces from other universities. The museum’s visitors were very limited. After the death of the founder‚ the university wanted to hire a new manager
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The Revolution of Art Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination‚ typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture‚ producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Art was originally used to refer to a skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences (“Art‚” 2013‚ para. 1). Around the 17th century‚ a shift in modern art began to develop into fine arts‚ where aesthetic considerations are paramount‚ are
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