...Antoniya Puleva AR 107 Professor Percy North Art History: Ancient to 1400 Term Paper Assignment Last week I visited the Freer museum in Washington DC. The museum is relatively small so I was able to take my time and look at all the art. The Freer museum is located on the third level of the building and the different rooms flowed well because of the layout of the floor plan. The museum had art from a variety of countries, most from Asia. There were 22 rooms and more than half of it had Japanese and Chinese art. The rest of the gallery was filled with South Asian, Himalayan, American, Korean and some Islamic art. Due to the variety of countries included in the exhibition, the variety of objects displayed was even broader. The Japanese part of the museum had a lot of paintings on scrolls and some of it was about military events or love stories and others were simply an illustration to popular tales like the Tale of Genji. Parts of the Japanese art collection included stoneware ceramics, tea-ceremony items, calligraphy hand scrolls, folding screens and prints. Chinese art also took a large space in the museum and was mostly represented by ancient metalwork, jade ceremonial objects, animal carvings, ceramics, lacquer, paintings and calligraphy. As I walked in through the Freer museum, I started my tour with the South Asian and Himalayan art exhibits which took two rooms. Both exhibitions included beautiful Buddhist, Jain, Hindu and Islamic objects, as well as masterpieces...
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...Art Appreciation Art cannot be classified into one category, style, or period. Art is very diverse, ranging from the beginning of the human being to today. Through the years, art has evolved dramatically from stick figures and two dimensional animals to three dimensional sculptures and intricate paintings. The artwork featured at the Seattle Art Museum shows many different types of art and features several different periods in which these artworks were created. Two pieces of art that stuck out the most at the museum was Albert Bierstadt’s Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast and Robert Arneson’s Pool with Splash. Both of these pieces of art showed character and seemed to almost speak to the viewer. Although there are many different periods and types of artwork, Bierstadt’s and Arneson’s pieces were the most intriguing. Robert Arneson is an artist who was born and raised in California. Robert was “encouraged by his father to draw” (Sward), so he followed his father’s advice and began creating cartoons for a California newspaper. After attending California College of Arts and Crafts, he began teaching “for a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics” (Sward). Although Robert had an interest in ceramics, he soon showed that he wanted to break away from the rules and boundaries of sculpting. He was part of a group that created pop art with their talents. In 1977, Robert completed his work Pool with Splash, where he is able to demonstrate the pop art style. Pool with...
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...Are you into art? Are you willing to see the most amazing permanent collections in university art museums? The University of Oklahoma is home of a lot of legendary greats, household names like: Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman is one of the optimum university art museums in the nation. This museum has an attractive blend of Western, Indian and modern art, as well as a remarkable collection of Impressionist art. Last week I had the opportunity to visit this adorable museum where it locates adjacent to the Theatre on the OU campus in Norman, so it is easy to find it. There is a park across the street so nobody can worry about this issue. The exterior of this building is awesome because it is so distinctive...
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...For this project I decided to go to the Museum of Fine Arts here in St. Petersburg Florida, mainly because it is not too far from where I live, and I even brought my older sister and my nephew to tag along. Before hand, I went on their website to figure out admission prices and just general information that I figured I should know, but I also look up pictures of the museum because I was curious to see what it looked like on the outside and what kind of environment it was in. Not only was I curious, but I was also very excited to see all of the art that the museum had to offer. I haven’t had the opportunity to visit many art museums in my eighteen years of life, so it was very interesting to me to see all of the different kinds of art that was...
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...Museum Paper The David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art is one that is fairly small compared to many other museums in Chicago. The museum is located on the University of Chicago campus. Although it is a part of the campus, the newer, modern look of the building stands out from the campus’ gothic feel. When walking into the museum it was definitely evident that it belonged to a college campus. It was a Sunday afternoon, and many students and Hyde Park residents were enjoying refreshments in the café. The café was exactly what one would expect from a college café. Several black, round, tables, netted metal chairs, and white walls along with the black café counter created a contrast with the colorful pieces of art lining the café/lobby. After visiting the café, there are stairs and clear glass doors which lead into the art museum. The first section of the museum is the Elisabeth and William Landes Gallery or the Modern Art & Design section. This section contains many pieces from the 1880s to the 1950s. The gallery portrayed mostly European and American sculptures, sketches, and paintings. The most well-known piece in the room is the dining room furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Robie House. After the first section, one can choose to go in a few different directions, leading into the rest of the galleries such as the contemporary art section which houses the State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 which is an exhibit featuring photographs of landmarks and...
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...about one’s existence, or helps in tracing back to past events to lead to be. A comparable example would be of an individual trying to trace back to his/her great grandparents generations ago, to their existence today. In the art culture, that exact principle is followed, and is led by patrons who then paved the way to the ever transforming landscape. A patron is a person who supports with money or gifts. Prior to the modern era of artists, a patron is said to be someone who usually entered into a contract with someone for a specific service or product that he/she would like. On the other hand, patronage is associated with the act of giving approval, support or endorsement towards a cause or event. Two patrons that I have identified are Pablo Picaso and Jeff Koons. Pablo Picaso (25 October, 1881 – 8 April, 1973) is recognized as one of the most influential and recognized figures of the 20th century due to his contributions to art. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer to name a few. Born in Spain, he studied from his father who was also an artist, professor at the school of fine arts, and curator for the museum in Malaga. Pablo had moved to Paris in 1901, where he practiced new styles and experiment with a variety of art forms. Through this period is where he began his work in surrealism and cubism(objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form depicting the subject from various viewpoints) style which he was the founder...
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...visited to the Dallas Fort Worth museum of science and history last summer. It was a great experience and has recognized a lot about the scientific and historic facts about ancient days. It was a really worth visiting and I got to know many more things about the Pre-Columbian ceramic figures of United States. The history of the museum was it was open on May 21, 1941 as a museum for children and has a wide range of collections. It was also built to appreciate the biological collections and to increase the knowledge about the history, art and science. The Dallas Fort Worth museum of science and history has variety of historic, artistic and scientific objects preserved in the museum. It serves as an excellent place to learn about the...
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...the DuSable Museum of African American History, in 1961 on the south side of Chicago. Unlike other museums, the DuSable Museum in an independent institution dedicated to preserving the history of Africans and African Americans with numerous exhibits for visitors to enjoy and experience. Throughout, the DuSable Museum, visitors are taken though varies time frames in history, all which encompass the African and African American history. One can find beaded necklaces, tribal pieces, bow and arrows, and numerous other artifacts that can be dated from all five regions of Africa. This museum also has an exhibit that tells the life story of slaves, beginning from the voyage to American and other colonies, to the very...
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...Summary of Reading two • Rapid technology progress during the twentieth century led to an ever increasing specialization in many different professions except art • Miró was an expert in investigating all the possibilities to be found in materials, forms, and colors • Miró’s art is highly diverse and wasn’t just limited to painting; he explored other fields as well, such as: sculptor, graphic work, tapestry, ceramics, and theatre • Joan Miró had the same name as his paternal grandfather who was a blacksmith in Tarragona • Miró’s father left Tarragona and went to Barcelona to become a jeweler and watchmaker. • Miró’s travels between Majorca and Tarragona heavily influenced his art and made him feel a very strong affinity for the country side • As a young boy, Miró was heavily influenced by Barcelona art such as the Romanesque paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts and Gaudi’s buildings • Miró gained a passion for the Mediterranean sea in Majorca as opposed to his home in Barcelona. This was because he thought that Barcelona was a city that...
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...Art 100 Virtual tour of Washington DC area Siva and consort Uma SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM-Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art – SOUTH ASIAN AND HIMALAYAN ART Both the Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery are located on the National Mall between the Capitol and Washington Monument. The hours of operation are 10.00 am to 5.30 pm except on December 25 and admission is free.Charles Lang Freer, the founder of the Freer Gallery of art expressed his enthusiasm by “I am over my head in love with India” after his first visit to the subcontinent. As I casually browsed the Freer Gallery, the beautifully decorated image of Buddha caught my attention. Also, on display were other masterpieces of Mughal and Rajput paintings along with richly decorated court arts and daggers used by Mughal emperors. I can clearly relate to this period of history because I am of Indian descent and also practice Hindu religion. I am well aware of this particular aspect of art and culture that we have covered during this course. During The Chola dynasty, the Hindu god known as Siva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) was the perfect embodiment of Chola beauty. The Chola dynasty was one of the most dominant artistic, religious and political forces in south India from the ninth through the thirteenth century. Siva Nataraj was portrayed as the family diety because he was always seen with his consort Uma and their elephant headed son Ganesha, often referred to as the remover of all obstacles. According to the...
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...Pre-Hispanic Art Background Pre-Hispanic works are largely unrecognized as art; rather they tend to be categorized as archeological relics. That’s why most of the pre-Hispanic art treasures in Mexico are housed in museums of history and anthropology, rather than gracing the walls of art galleries alongside modern greats like Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera. In fact, both of these famous artists drew inspiration from pre-Hispanic art and prized their personal collections. Tamayo (1899-1991) a Zapotec from Oaxaca, was adamant that his collection be preserved as art, not science (Barto, 2006). That’s why upon his death he donated it to National Institute of Fine Art instead of the National Institute of Anthropology. The result is the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the only place in Mexico where you can see pre-Hispanic works on display as art for art’s sake. Some of the most significant humanistic pieces come not from celebrated city states like Teotihuacán or Chichen Itza, but from the civilizations of the west coast, from what is today Guerrero, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. For the most part, these cultures remain an enigma. “To some extent this is due to geographic isolations,” Pesqueira explains, “but mostly it is because they left no great ceremonial centers like Teotihuacán and Monte Albán.” The art of occidental Mexico mostly differs from that of other regions in its secular nature (Barto, 2006). Rather than depicting idealized images of priests and warriors, their sculpture...
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...Anne D’Alleva The Fundamentals of Art History Third Edition Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco upper saddle River Amsterdam cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico city sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo chapter 1 introducing art history Art is long, life is short. Prouerb attributed to Hippocrates (c. 4 6 0 -3 5 7 bce) This chapter will introduce you to art history as an academic discipline. It distinguishes the aims and methods o f art history from related disciplines like anthropology and aesthetics. It also attempts to answer two questions that are more complicated than they appear at first glance: What is art? and What is history? what do art historians do? The object of art history Art historians do art. But we don’t make it, we study it. We try to understand what artists are expressing in their work, and what viewers perceive in it. We try to understand why some thing was made at the time it was made, how it reflected the world it was made in, and how it affected that world. We talk about individual artists and their goals and intentions, but also about patrons (the people who commission artworks), viewers, and the kinds o f institutions, places, and social groups in which art is made and circulates—whether that’s an art school, temple, or government agency. What is “art”? “Art” is one o f those words that people use all the time but that...
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...Running head: WHAT IS ART? Understanding Art: Eight Forms of Art Quantella Rivers Bradley American InterContinental University Abstract This paper will define art using internet and resource tools. Given eight types of art define and give one example and elaborate. 1. Painting 2. Sculpture 3. Architecture 4. Photography 5. Printmaking 6. Conceptual Art 7. Installation Art 8. Performance Art Art is interpreted by each individual differently, what you may see, I may see something else. What the artist put on canvas or sculpts describes their feeling at that particular moment, however once again the observer may choose to feel or describe something different. “What Is Art” Dictionary.com defines art as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance and also the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings. (Dictionary.com, 2010) This definition is two of twenty-two definitions defined on the online dictionary. The two definitions were selected because it related to the subject at-hand. Merriam-Webster online defines art as the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also as works so produced. Artists use paintings as a form of communication; whether the painting is elaborate or just a mere scribble...
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...THE KUMEYAAY PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA by Your Name (boldface) ANTH 100: Non-Western Cultures and the Western Tradition Instructor: Dr. Steven R. James Nov. 10, 2014 INTRODUCTION In my quest to study the life of the ancient California inhabitants, I visited the San Diego Museum of Man which is an anthropological museum situated in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The museum was established in the year 1915 as a result of the Panama-California Exposition where several exhibits were displayed with ‘The Story of Man through Ages’ being the first. At the culmination of the exposition, San Diego Museum Association sought to retain the available collection and start a permanent museum. As a result, the collection was named Museum of Man in 1942 and later in 1978 as the California Museum of Man. Besides housing the history of the Kumeyaay people, who are the subject of this research paper, the history of other Native Americans from the South of California can also be studied in this place. The museum has a population of over 100000 ethnographic items, 25000 images, and a large library of books and journals. MUSEUM EXHIBIT 1) Artifact Display On the second floor of the museum, a wide variety of the historic sources can be found. Among the displayed artifacts there are models of the early man, reconstructions of the bones of hominids, cave paintings, coffins of mummies from ancient Egypt, stone carvings, and remains of the Egyptian mummy known as Lemon Grove. The culture of the people...
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...a recreational sport. According to FAO statistics, the total number of fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. Fisheries and aquaculture provide direct and indirect employment to over 500 million people.[1] In 2005, the worldwide per capita consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms, with an additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms.[2] Contents 1 Prehistory 2 Ancient history 3 Commercial fishing 3.1 Fish netting 3.2 Herring fisheries 3.3 Trawling 3.4 Cod trade 3.5 Trepanging 3.6 Chinese Americans 4 Artisan fishing 5 Recreational fishing 5.1 The fishing reel 5.2 Fly fishing 5.2.1 Japan 5.2.2 United Kingdom 5.2.3 Scandinavia 5.2.4 United States 6 Fishing in art 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links Prehistory Stone Age Fish hook made from bone. Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago.[3][4]...
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