Event Paper One – PAINTING ARTS 1301.002 David Tran October 6‚ 2014 On September 8‚ 2014 I visited the Dallas Art Museum to see a painting titled Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm by Claude–Joseph Vernet. This oil on canvas painting was created to show the terror that was associated with the destructive power of nature. The painting is incredibly successful in depicting the fierceness of nature and humanity’s insignificance through the showing of the smallness of the humans against
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The Museum of Tolerance is a place that not only is a home to a memoriam of the Holocaust but it also tries to break the barriers of racism‚ prejudices‚ and discrimination and tries to teach and incorporate in people that even though everyone is different‚ everyone shares a universal attribute‚ that each person around the world no matter their race‚ gender‚ country of origin‚ or choice of religion still bleeds red‚ feels pain and are human beings. As soon as people realize this fact and accept that
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Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum is one of the few luxuries Colorado residents and tourists alike‚ have the pleasure of experiencing. It is truly a world class facility‚ from the outside in. Within the confines of its walls reside masterpieces from the likes of Monet‚ Degas‚ and Picasso. There is a broad spectrum of art from all corners of the globe represented here. This includes art from various European nations‚ as well as that of far eastern cultures to American Indian design. Each
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hours in Memphis. We visited the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel. For those that are not familiar‚ the Lorraine Hotel is where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4‚ 1968. The hotel and the boarding house across the street have both been transformed into aspects of the museum and I believe that everyone needs to visit these sites. The kiddo was really looking forward to visiting the museums while I was a bit nervous. As a black woman who was reared
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The trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum was an insightful and eye opening experience. It was my second trip to a large art museum‚ the first one being The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Though I am not one you would call an art connoisseur‚ I do take interest in specific art pieces. I often find myself wondering what the artist was thinking about when painting or constructing a piece of work. I wonder what emotions they might have been going through or if someone unknown inspired them
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in the current period of time and the common start point for this type of art is from the 1970’s to the present day. In Houston there are two museums that display Contemporary Art for no fee‚ the Menil Collection‚ and Contemporary Arts Museum. In these two museums I was able to see many pieces of art from extremely talented and creative artists. Each museum had a collection of pieces that made you wonder‚ smirk‚ and cringe. In the Menil Collection there was a lively and colorful piece by Johnnie
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Museum Report The first piece of art that I decided to write on that I came across in the Cummer Museum was June Morning‚ by Thomas Hart Benton‚ painted in 1945.His oil painting depicts everyday life on a farm‚ with a rancher milking a cow‚ the sun breaking the clouds in the background behind the barn‚ and beautiful flora at the base of the picture; giving the illusion that you are peeking through the greenery for the glimpse of the farm (Cummer Resources. #3 Thomas Hart Benton – June Morning.)
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ATIVE ANALYSIS PART TWO It is not surprising that Steven Vincent was stopped by Oldenburg’s Store sculptures because the Guggenheim museum is one of the last places you would expect to find his objects‚ especially those that were originally intended for his storefront in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan. The irony of ‘the commodity object as art versus the art object as commodity’ set much of the stage for Oldenburg’s Store because he‚ like Allan Kaprow‚ understood that art changes accordingly to
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Review of the exhibit at the Art and Science of Medicine Exhibition at the science museum. On the 12th of February‚ I and my group travelled to the Science Museum and went to the 5th floor to visit the Art and Science of Medicine Exhibition. We individually had to decide on an area of interest in which we wanted to critically examine in order to look at the development in that field. In addition‚ we also had to examine the interaction between medical and social models with in that area as well
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Essay#4 Why do people visit museums when they travel to new places? Every new place that we visit has different history and culture. People can get to know about a new place by either asking from local people and travelling or visiting museums. Visiting museums is a convenient and easy way to understand and get better knowledge about a new place because we will be able to see such significant things such as handicrafts and archaeological finds with our own eyes. Museums are the places where centuries
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