My Experience At The Tampa Museum Of Art

Going to a museum was always something that I had wanted to do, but not knowing much about art made me hesitant. The museum that I chose to attend for this project was the Tampa Museum of Art. As my first museum experience, I decided to choose the Tampa Museum of Art because of the different array of work that it offered. The Tampa Museum was divided into three main sections called The Classical World, Echoes of Antiquity, and a section for the landscape artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Classical world section was filled with many different sculptures and works of art from the Greeks, Romans, and Italians, while the other sections featured artists like Pablo Picasso and Chuck Close. The piece of art that interested me the most was by

Because of the variation in the proportion, each of the smaller parts of the piece is emphasized differently. Emphasis is used to highlight certain areas and draw attention to main ideas and components of the work as a whole. Examples of emphasis in the piece can be seen in the candle, as it is one of the only parts containing a bright color, making it stand out from the rest of the objects in the grayscale. The bull head is also emphasized because of its size, taking up a majority of the work. The emphasis on the beast’s head gives it a large impact and draws the viewer’s eyes towards its

Picasso used a type of printmaking known as etching along with some engraving in his creation. Etching is a process in which the artist uses a metal plate as the type of media. The metal is then covered with an acid resistant coating, and tools are used to scratch the design directly into the metal. After the carving is complete, the metal is submersed in a bath of acid so that the top covering is removed, and then different colors of ink can be added into the grooves that were carved. The use of etching by Picasso allowed him to make a lot of subtle variations in the darkness and lightness of the lines, and create very fine details depending on the tools that he used. Picasso’s use of etching was made to look like a drawing, and when viewing it from afar it seems like a sketch. The object is mainly two-dimensional, yet it can be somewhat three-dimensional because the grooves are deeper than other parts of the work, giving it a texture between the higher and lower parts. This technique gives the art a very unique look, but probably caused many limitations for Picasso while making it. Picasso must have had an extremely steady hand as he was carving in order to make the small details of his art possible. The etching probably limited some of the detail that he was able to incorporate into the work because if he carved away too much, some of the