(Mike) Professor O’Toole Capstone September 20, 2013 The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning On Capstone class, I had a chance to go to the Museum of Fine Arts. “The MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world, the collection in the MFA encompasses nearly 450000 works of art.” (About the MFA) A lot of professional artworks in the museum brought a great visual feast to me, but the one that most attracted my attention is a painting, called "The Louvre, Winter Sunlight, Morning."
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project and course assignments. U.S. Art Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/ National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: http://www.mfa.org/ The Phillips Collection: http://www.phillipscollection.org/ The Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php Whitney Museum of American Art: http://www.whitney.org/ Guggenheim Museum New York: http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index
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Detail of "The Night Gathering" by Ed Pien Ed Pien has a permanent scar on the tip of his index finger. After discovering the traditional Chinese way of cutting paper several years go, he creates grand 3D realms and environments with an X-Acto knife. Welcome to Haven of Delight, Pien’s hauntingly beautiful exhibit on display at The Rooms Provincial Gallery. “I cut vertically,” says Pien. “Even though I have an image to work with while cutting, I am still doing a lot of improvisation in order to
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this [building] that says, “I’m a museum,” or “Come in.” There are a lot of people that are not interested in high culture and think this is a drive-in bank or an office building. Most art museums in America have a problem with image. One of the things that makes me mad is that people think there is something wrong with the museum. The MMA is one of the most public in the country, and more heavily dependent on the mem- bership contribution than any other [museum]. Like most, it is underendowed and
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Museum Extra Credit Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses, emotions, and/or intellect. Many types of art, even if from different eras, can be not only different but also very similar. By going to a museum and learning about all the different types of art, you realize how different pieces of art can have a lot in common. I decided to visit both the Getty Villa and the Getty center museums to learn more about the
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Public museums and art galleries are not necessary because people can see the objects stored in those places on the Internet.To what extent do you agree or disagree? With the fast development of science and technology, an increasing number of people are likely to enjoy art stuffs by Internet for its convenience and speedy. In this case, some argued that public museums and art galleries should be abandoned. However, in my view, this argument is not convincing for the following reasons. The infornations
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Linnette Gomez Professor Lisa Rockford 16 November 2011 Boca Art Museum An artist’s perspective gives a curious audience a world of creativity displaying emotion, talent, and intelligence. The Boca Art Museum contains extraordinary galleries with many interesting pieces of art that come together to create an entire work of art in unity, and different portraits and framework with a variety of mediums. Viewers can see abstract sculptors placed in the outside garden giving the audience self-thought
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have withstood the test of time. Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities
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Mackenzie Parham Art 1030 – R62 Art Review African Art Brooks Museum is well known in Memphis as an art museum filled with many painting, artifacts and exhibits that are ever changing. I decided to make a trip to see the new exhibits, which include “Looking at Women,” photography by Whitten Sabbatini and “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt.” Along with these exhibits are their permanent collections, whom which they add to yearly, they include paintings, sculptures, and artifacts
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a variety of cultural institutions, including art, natural history, and science museums, as well as theaters, zoos, and historical sites. Schools gladly endured the expense and disruption of providing field trips because they saw these experiences as central to their educational mission: schools exist not only to provide economically useful skills in numeracy and literacy, but also to produce civilized young men and women who would appreciate the arts and culture. More-advantaged families may take
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