On Friday, October 2nd, I visited the Wittliff art collection at Texas State University. I was very excited at how much art I was going to see as I made my way to the 7th floor of the Alkek Library, which is where the Wittliff art collection is located in. Sadly, with all of the artwork that was displayed, I was having trouble deciding on which art pieces to write this critique on. However, two certain 2-D pieces caught my eye. Out of all of the displays in the art collection, I ended up choosing Keith Carter’s photograph and Kate Breakey’s painted photograph.
If I was going to redesign the Lightener museum I would try to put this painting around marble statues from Italy during the time period of the Renaissance, when marble sculpting was big with artists such as Michelangelo. Moving this painting would change its meaning and value totally because of the content of the image. When surrounded by marble sculptures, or pictures of these great pieces of art will draw out the hard work that was brought into making the sculptures. For instance, when looking at David one may think about how much work and dedication Michelangelo put into his sculpture. Not necessarily how hard the labor worker put into extracting the stone from the mine, and carting it to the artist or store to be purchased for
Dale piece the Persian ceiling is a beautiful piece the bright colors and the unusually shaped objects are just breath taking some pieces where flattened out and many of the shapes resemble jellyfish and other sea animals and it’s so amazing because it’s all glass nothing else. The glass used in the Persian are small, dense, and rare core-formed vessels that appeared during 1500B.C. in Egypt and again in 1300B.C. in Mesopotamia. Another pieces that I admire is the sculpture honoring Harriet Wyche. The sculpture is made of rose-colored Polyvitro, a material that Chihuly Studio creates by casting a special formula of polymer resins and dyes using molds formed from large “chunks” of glass. The Polyvitro elements are crystal-like in shape, and individual masses are attached to a central armature of powerful-coated, exterior-grade stainless steel to create a tower that is over eight feet tall.
The Toledo Museum of Art was founded due to Toledo’s placement as “the glass city of the United States”. In 1888, Edward Libbey moved his glass company to Toledo. In 1901, Libbey and his wife founded the Toledo Museum of Art, without barring anyone from entering. They would gather works of art as well as “collections of glass” during their travels. The couple would make donations of money and property to the museum, but they encouraged the citizens of Toledo to engage within the museum.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum showcases Mrs. Gardner 's collection to the public in greater Boston area. Each room functions as a pilgrimage, as one travels through various countries and time periods ending at the chapel and subsequently the Gothic room. In this paper, I will examine the Gothic room 's theme in relation to the placement of its objects. I will also evaluate the room 's strengths and challenges in serving the public, and how the practices employed in this room fit into the context of accessibility for the entire museum.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston describes the front side as
If you look at the picture you can tell the rocks, water, and grass in the foreground of the picture seem to be darker, brighter and have more detail than the mountains and waterfall in the background of the picture. This allows the viewer to assume that the mountains and waterfall in the background of the picture are further away than the more colored and detailed part of the picture. Dickerson purposely achieved this idea using atmospheric perspective. When looking at Mountain waterfall the viewer can also assume that the mountains and beginning part of the waterfall are farther away because it looks higher up. Because the waterfall and mountains appear higher, the picture does not appear to be flat.
I do believe though that my favorite piece featured in the museum is Dream (Mantis Religiosa) by M.C. Escher. This wood engraving was created in the year of 1935. The artwork is 13 by 10 inches. Escher’s Dream (Mantis Religiosa) depicts a sleeping man with a praying mantis laying on top of him.
Empty Lot is a new sculpture created by Mexican conceptual artist, Abraham Cruzvillegas, installed at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This gigantic sculpture suggests unlimited possibilities between life and nature. According to the artist, this work is often related to words such as politics, migration, displacement, poverty, aspiration, promises and hope. Entering the hall from west on the lower level, the huge foredeck and scaffolding welcomes you into this piece of art. As the viewers walk through the lower part of the sculpture, excitement starts to build up as the temporary structure made of wooden planks and metal poles seems like a trailer telling them to check out what’s happening above them.
The field of vision is rather short for the scene but one can see the depth of the pavilion that is the main architectural focus of the scene. The marble city in the background is also in perspective. Veronese also utilizes light to
For the reflection paper, the natural object I am choosing is a Patagonia flower. I chose this object because I have done landscaping for several years and it is my favorite type of flower. The influence of behindness, withinness, and otherness has an impact on society that should go unnoticed. If I am picking the dead petals off the flower from viewpoint, I cannot see behind the flower at the specific point in time. This is because the stem is blocking my view.
The art work I selected for the Museum project was an engraving of Michelangelo’s David by Jean-Baptiste de Poilly. This art work is made in Rome, Italy, Europe in 1704. In is an engraving in plane tone. It is an art work of a standing nude male (Philadelphia Museum of Art). David is one of the most famous art works of Michelangelo.
Last Summer I was awarded a scholarship by a program called Summer Search to help in rebuilding efforts in New Orleans with Rustic Pathways. This trip opened my eyes because I learned about new cultures and got a small insight of the world. Also, in my group, I met teenagers that were from Paris, Greece, Boston and from other places that I became very close to. Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything in its path, they are still trying to rebuild their homes. I got the opportunity to meet Mr.Felix one of Hurricane Katrina’s survivors and repair his home.
Only works with legal title should be considered for acquisition. The museum must be able to guarantee maintenance, conservation and housing for the
Serpentine Gallery is kept constant pursuit of tension structures, using elements coated fiberglass fabric stretches between twisting roller coaster steel frame. They form a building where the roof meets the floor in one continuous surface means you see things that would otherwise be hidden. This ceiling is held on five pillars soaring stab in the room open plan, each rising to the opening of ovular that channel light down their concave shaft. Photo 5: Glass fiber texture and free flowing white canopy.
