Essays Tagged: "museum of art"
"Body Fires" by Fay Jones Art Critique
wenty years of her career. The exhibition "Fay Jones: A 20 Year Retrospective" can be viewed at the Museum of Art / WSU. This paper will focus on her triptych painting "Body Fires". A painting that po ... spatial relationships.Jones evokes a mysterious mood, in a supplemental background video(located in museum) she describes her creative process as an alteredstate of emotion and into the next dimension ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Conava and Rodin. A comparison in styles.
Short Paper. Both work are from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paper can also be used for Collage. Good, But needs to be a little more specific ... ville Press, 1983,) p.11.4. John L. Tancock, The Sculptures of Auguste Rodin. (Philadelphia: Phila. Museum of Art, 1976) p.20.5.John L. Tancock, The Sculptures of Auguste Rodin, (Philadelphia: Phila. ... Jersey: prentice Hall, 1995.7. Tancock, John The Sculptures of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia: Phila. Museum of Art, 1976..
Subjects: Art Essays
"The Human in Captivity" A juxtaposition between the art within the Cloisters in New York City and the architecture of the Cloisters itself
space of emplacement" (Of Other Spaces, Foucault 22).The Cloisters, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Fort Tryon Park, poses an interesting juxtaposition--a roughly hewn building of st ... ide world. Thus, the word cloister became associated with the secluded monastery that the Cloisters museum imitates today. In the quote above, Michael Foucault comments briefly on the hierarchy of med ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
About a visit to a Metropolitan museum of New York, brief discussion of two works-one western art, the other-african.
A recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art had been a usefully spent time at least because it gave me chance to recognize the hom ... ropean art also Medieval, Modern, Islamic and other styles are represented with in the walls of the museum. They include the works of such great artists as Rodin, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and many o ... e works such as the Seated Couple. I just want to mention that during our visit to The Metropolitan Museum I spent quiet a while around the Seated Couple studying it, and heard somebody to refer to th ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Canova's "Perseus with Head of Medusa"
piece, made to replicate the Greek classical style, stands tall above entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This sculpture, created by Antonio Canova in marble, was done in the early 19th centu ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Agias, from the Doachos Monument
aly dedicated to Delphi, and was built in 344-343 B.C.E. A marble copy survives today and is at the museum in Delphi, but the original bronze was probably melted down. A cast of the sculpture can be s ... inal bronze was probably melted down. A cast of the sculpture can be seen today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cast Collection in Fairfield University's Loyola Hall.The sculpture of Agias has very ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
The Great Ceramist Bernard Palissy's Techniques: Platter in Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Great Ceramist Bernard Palissy's Techniques: Platter in Metropolitan Museum of ArtSeveral weeks ago as I was wandering through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a relief o ... 0 1/2 in. x W. 15 1/2 in. x D. 2 13/16 in.(Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953; courtesy of Metropolitan Museum, New York) 6Figure 2 (Please refer to Bibliography by Spiron Kostof: A History of Architectur ... rmont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1968), 134.6. Bernard Palissy. Platter, (1510-1589), Metropolitan Museum of Art, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Collect ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
El Greco's "View Of Toledo".
As a student of art history, going to a museum is the only way to fully experience a work of art. By looking at a painting or a sculpture in ... in a book or on a slide, one cannot fully experience the work of art. By visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Saturday, March 29th, I was able to look at paintings that dated f ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Los Angeles Museum of Art Review.
Los Angeles Museum of Art ReviewEntering the museum felt a bit odd because my mother and my two younger siblings ... it odd because my mother and my two younger siblings accompanied me, and they never come with me to museums. I wanted to laugh because I did not feel that this situation was serious. But, as I became ... ecause of the reflections of many mirrors. That was the coolest, not boring exhibition in the whole museum.The Pavilion for Japanese Art was very boring with not much to see. We did not find it intere ...
Subjects: Art Essays
This essay is about Jacques-Louis David's "The Death of Socrates".
st created this work of art in 1787 and it now can be seen decorating the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. However, for a person to truly appreciate this masterpiece and what it re ... and Herculaneum the large amount of artifacts were excavated and distributed among the wealthy and museums in all of Europe. With this old influence on artists the neoclassical movement swept across ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Critique Essay on the NY Times Article 'Far-Flung Artworks, Side by Side Online'
the topics in this class, I came across invaluable online resources. Many websites claimed to have museum quality reproductions of artwork, but I found the pictures lacking of the passion and feeling ... on this claim. It is called the Amico Library, an online collection of art pieces from thirty-nine museums all over the United States. It has a compilation of more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Comparison of the Met and Guggenheim Museum New York
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 ... ld 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 mu ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts
Ferry near Battery Park by Yvonne Jacquette
Ferry near Battery ParkThe name of the art museum I attended is the Boca Museum of Art located at 501 Plaza Real in Boca Raton, Florida 33432. ... nvas. The approximate size of the painting is seventy-six by sixty-two inches. I arrived at the art museum and started circling the different rooms. Then I saw it, all those bright, vivid, stunning co ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
A comparison of how two museums present African Art. (Museums in NYC)
iring, effective and interesting? Since the question refers to my personal feelings, I say that the Museum of Natural History (MNH) best fits the description. To support my answer it is necessary to f ... tory (MNH) best fits the description. To support my answer it is necessary to first compare the two museums to the point and see where the MNH held the edge. Even before comparing let us identify the ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A paper (plus bibliography) analyzing the Georgia O'Keefe painting Oriental Poppies. Two sources.
zing the Georgia O'Keefe painting Oriental Poppies. Two sources.During my visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I encountered some art by the American abstract painter Georgia Totto O'Keefe. When st ... Poppies (1927) was one of O'Keefe's most noted masterpieces and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during my visit. This paper will provide an analysis of Oriental Poppies.O'Keefe was b ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A Girl Receiving a Letter
My favorite painting in the Timken Museum of Art is "A Girl Receiving a Letter". The size of the painting is 10-1/8 x 9-5/8 in. The med ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Humanities
paper for humanities I was not too happy with that idea. I decided to write my paper on a trip to a museum. So my friend Jen and I took a day and went to see the Gulf Coast museum. Neither of us had e ... end Jen and I took a day and went to see the Gulf Coast museum. Neither of us had ever been to this museum before and did not know what to expect. We thought it was be interesting to write a paper on ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Santa Barbara Museum of Art Report (for Art Appreciation class)
My report is about my visit to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This is the first real art museum that I think I have ever visited. After touring all ... is focused on the style that I believe was the most visually appealing to me during my visit to the museum. In class I have found that landscape paintings have a strong visual appeal to me and in part ... nice panoramic perspective, which sets the work apart from the majority. I enjoyed the visit to the museum and have a new appreciation for art.
Subjects: Art Essays
A Midwestern Montage of Magnificence
ltured nature of all who pass through its doors. This building is none other than the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A majestic quality presides over the structure. It is a 232,000 square-foot ar ... south wall was quarried on the spot. Also, the Rozzelle Court provides a spacious eatery for weary museum goers. As for the art works, although its collections are comprehensive, the Nelson-Atkins is ...
Subjects: Art Essays
AP Art History paper on Van Gogh's Straw Hat painting.
his specific self-portrait in the year 1887. This painting is currently in show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York. The portrait was painted with oil-based paint on canvas; 16 x 12 1/2 in. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art