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    Study on some significant characteristic of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Basic Information • HISTORIC NAME: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • LOCATION: Street & Number: 1071 Fifth Avenue City/Town: New York • TIME: 1943-59 • FUNCTION OR USE: Historic: Recreation and Culture Sub: Museum Current: Recreation and Culture Sub: Museum • DESCRIPTION: ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIFICATION: Modern Movement MATERIALS: Foundation: Reinforced concrete Walls:

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    The Guggenheim Museum & its Giorgio Armani Exhibition In November of 1999‚ the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York announced that it would devote an exhibition to honor the works of the celebrated Italian designer Giorgio Armani. However‚ during the announcement of the exhibition‚ the museum did not mention that it was simultaneously entering into a three-year agreement in which Armani pledged a donation of $15 million to Guggenheim. When The New York Times unveiled Armani’s gift‚ the museum

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    home to number of architectural classics. Two of these masterpieces of architecture are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Both continue the metaphor of New York being a world within a world and possess the latent fusion of form and function‚ one dependent on the other. The Metropolitan Museum is the epitome of neo-Classical style while the Guggenheim is a modernist powerhouse. Each museum serves the same purpose: displaying humanity’s greatest achievements. By comparing and

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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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    Upon cross-examination and comparison‚ Le Corbusier ’s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright ’s Guggenheim Museum have many similar attributes to them. Although Le Corbusier adamantly denied Frank Lloyd Wright ’s influence on his works‚ by examining the styles of the two architects‚ one can see similarities that cannot be justified by mere coincidence. However‚ since the Guggenheim was completed in 1959‚ after Villa Savoye‚ it could be also argued that Le Corbusier was the one who influenced Wright

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    teachings of his mentor by changing the phrase to “form and function are one.” This principle is thoroughly visible in the plan for the Guggenheim Museum. According to Wright’s design‚ visitors would enter the building‚ take an elevator to the top and enjoy a continuous art-viewing experience while descending along the spiral ramp. Wright’s design for the Guggenheim has sometimes been criticized for being inhospitable to the art it displays. However‚ over the past five decades Wright’s design has

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    Cited: Kruger‚ Barbara. Remote Control: Power‚ Cultures‚ and the World of Appearances. Massachusetts: MIT Press‚ 1993. "Barbara Kruger: Biography." The Guggenheim Museum Online. 2007. Guggenheim Museum. 8 February 2008. <www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/art ist_bio_81.html> This particular article was written by the Solomon R "Barbara Kruger." World ’s Women On-Line. 1995. World ’s Women On-Line. 5 February 2008 <http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/kruger.html> "Barbara Kruger." Whitney Museum

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    ------------------------------------------------- #1: The organization chosen is the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The Mission Statement is very clear and concise: “The mission of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art‚ architecture‚ and other manifestations of visual culture‚ primarily of the modern and contemporary periods‚ and to collect‚ conserve‚ and study the art of our time. The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions‚ education programs

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    tells you the title and also where it can be found. This makes it so you can easily find these pieces online. I found the museum websites to be very useful. For example‚ on page 202 in the textbook‚ figure 9.27 has an oil painting from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum‚ New York. Once you are on the museum website you search the artists name and title. This will bring you to a page with the painting and a ton of helpful information. Everything from the history of the artist or the painting itself

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    "All" Maurizio Cattelan As he had done throughout his half-life career Maurizio Cattelan set tongues wagging and pens scribbling with his Guggenheim show titled "All". From the beginning of his career‚ he has created sculptures‚ and produced events with their dissemination as photographic images in mind. In the exhibit Cattelan dangled from ropes and cables every single work—or their images—he had created in the twenty-one years of his ‘making art‚’ a gigantic mobile. Titled "All‚" fills one of

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