Sunday afternoon‚ I decided to visit the Timken Museum of Art located in Balboa Park. I chose the Timken specifically after reading about it online‚ and knowing that it had a variety of different paintings ranging from European paintings to American and Russian paintings. After going in to the museum‚ I took a walk and viewed the entire collection of artwork displayed‚ as suggested in the video “How to Visit an Art Museum”. While doing so‚ I noted down the works of art that impressed me from the first
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Nowaday in modern society there are a large number of museums and galleries‚ which help to provide essencial functions of education and entertainment to the public. However some people think they are of less importance now as citizens can achieve the same purpose on the Interne. Personally I do not agree with such views. Certainly we can almost search all information from the Internet‚ yet all we retrieve is just pictures and texts. While in a museum‚ one see real objects‚ such as a Chinese ancient
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Assignment 1 Art 100: Introduction to World Art Visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. INTRODUCTION: For the first assignment in Instructor Laude’s Art 100 class‚ the class had to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt Exhibit on the 3rd floor. Where we chose a work of art each student thought was interesting and writes a paper describing and analyzing the art work. The work of art that I chose is the Anthropoid Coffin of the Priest Thothirdes. The reason I found this artifact interesting because
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside‚ I sensed myself going back into an era‚ into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past‚ where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp‚ to be remembered and
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In the National Gallery Pictures and memories are well connected; they are both frozen and untouchable. What happened in the past are frozen pictures‚ impossible to be touched. In the national gallery is a short story written by Doris Lessing in 2007. The short story is about the narrator’s visit to the National Gallery in a free hour. The narrator is quite passive through the whole story line. The story is from his/her point view‚ but is anonymous in the way that we do not get to know his
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during summer break of my junior year. I went on a two-week trip to Pakistan with my Pakistani class. We traveled all over Pakistan‚ from Karachi to Peshawar‚ along the South of Pakistan‚ and even to Iran! I visited places I usually saw on the television screen. I even climbed 827 steps on the world famous Habib Bank Plaza. I truly enjoyed visiting the Pakistan Maritime Museum. It is so big that people say it takes about one whole week to go through the entire museum. That visit was very educational
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Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the state of Florida Central Idea: Florida has crazy weather‚ family oriented activities and Adults only activities. Introduction I. Imagine leaving your home with your family on a beautiful Saturday Morning in FL. You and your family are going to Walt Disney World and then later that night you and your spouse are planning to have an adult night on the town at the City Walk. Then all of sudden rainy weather comes out of nowhere and ruin your plans
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In the National Gallery In this assignment I will begin by giving a short summary of the short story “In the National Gallery” by Doris Lessing (2007)‚ and hereafter I will analyze and interpret the short story. In addition to that I will put my interpretation into perspective and discuss the extract from The Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald and the extract from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson. Besides looking at the two different texts I will try to compare the text into
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A historical site that is well known in the United States calls for a better way of preparation. When I learnedthat I was going to visit Carnton museum‚ I passably prepared in order to make this actual visit memorable and outstanding. Although many people have visited this site and written a lot about it‚ there cannot be a better feeling than having direct experience. So‚ I had to be set both physically and psychologically. First of all‚ I collected a little information about the place. This information
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Proposal for a Kaizen Gallery We propose to set up a Kaizen Gallery in the ‘Performer of the Month’ Awards Room. This Kaizen Gallery would showcase the company’s history‚ products‚ forging and machining facilities‚ core values as well as awards and accolades received by it. This gallery would act as a visual walkthrough to the company’s past and present to the esteemed visitors who visit RKFL time to time. The gallery would use up two wall-sides of the room. Overall view of Wall A Introduction
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