American Missing Art

"Breaking The Color Line (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress." Breaking The Color Line (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2015. .

This Summer, I had the opportunity to spend my entire break attending conferences and interning at a lab at UCSD so I thought to myself I would never have the time to visit any art museum or do my summer assignments for that matter. That was until I realized I was living at a campus who had an art piece practically on every corner of their six colleges. I then began my journey, on scooter, to discover the hidden and the not so hidden gems The Stuart Collection at UCSD had to offer. It was then that I fell in love with 2 specific art pieces throughout the campus, those being Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star, which depicts an immigrant’s transition into American culture, and Kiki Smith’s Standing, which depicts a seemingly tortured woman.

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art. The stolen works are valued at $500 million, which made the lottery the largest art theft in American history. There were 14 pieces of art that was stolen on the March 18, 1990. There is a reward of $5 million for information leading to the recovery of these works in good condition. No one has found out, it has been 25 years of theories as to what happened.

It is believable that John Vanderlyn, in his painting Landing of Columbus, was trying to portray the success of Columbus and his crew. Columbus heroic stance and elegant expression are made all the more impressive in comparison to the native people who witness the event. The Native Americans are naked, fearful or subservient, bowing down before the explorer in awe and reverence. The symbols of empire are shown in the heroic explorer with his Christian crosses and steel swords symbolizing the significance in the power of civilization. In 1836 of June, Congress had commissioned John Vanderlyn to paint the Landing of Columbus. About eleven years later the painting was

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the United States of America domestic security and intelligence which also serves as the federal government’s law enforcement agency. Working under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI simultaneously considered as part of the US intelligence community, comprises of many other federal and state agencies and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. The agency performs a leading role in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal investigative roles making it have jurisdictions of over 200 categories of federal crime. Even though most of FBI’s roles are domestic and limited to crimes within the US borders, it is equivalent to intelligence

On Tuesday we took a trip to the Chrysler Museum to view the "Branding the American West" exhibit. In this exhibit it had a wide selection of Art types which we had a guide take us around to view them. While I was there I was surprised to see a more variety of art than I thought I would see. I saw television art that was made by a Korean man, A glass hamburger with fries and a Pepsi; this one was the most interesting to me because I had never seen art like that in my life. Another cool thing is that most of the art here at the exhibit had descriptions by them to let you know what the art means and who the artist were. However, their is one piece of art that I liked the most and that one is the Pima Basket.

The piece that was chosen was a cast bronze sculptor called “Mantime” in the American Painting and Sculptors exhibition from the El Paso Art Museum. This piece was created by Harry Geffert in 1995. Geffert is an American sculptor who was born in Live Oak County, Texas in 1934. As of today he lives and works at Crowely, Texas. Geffert has a Master degree from New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico and a Bachelor’s degree in South West Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Harry Geffert is mostly known for his sculptors; and continues to create them as of today. (Worley, 2011)

American art, and its countless mediums, evolved equally with the capitalist country. This is a visual medium and a form of self-expression, where an artists is free to turn a canvas into anything he or she would like. They are not bound by grammar, words or other aspects of written communication and could freely As the old saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words”; and in America, their work served as mirrors of the social and political climate. The many painters, architects, and photographers themselves could be considered the archivists that shaped the “all-American” identity.

African American class is one of my favorite classes. I have learned some new things about the African American art history during the 20th century. Also, I have known some of the important artist, and being able to discover their lives. However, one of those artists was George Washington Carver, who was a American botanist and inventor. He was a Muslim scientist. He was born into slavery in Missouri in 1864. He has a wild reputation because he had changed the way that poor family lives on. In addition, Carver had made some recherché about promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He also had developed many products that made from peanuts, and that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics,

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an intelligent, driven, and threat-focused organization that serves to protect the nation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation plays an important role in the United States. Currently the Federal Bureau of Investigation has more than 200 violation categories of federal law. It defends the United States against terrorism, public corruption, cyber-crime, counterintelligence, civil rights, and organized crime. The

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an intelligent, driven, and threat-focused organization that serves to protect the nation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation plays an important role in the United States. Currently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has more than 200 violation categories of federal law. It defends the United States against terrorism, public corruption, cyber-crime, counterintelligence, civil rights, and organized crime. The

Unfortunately, some of the art was either destroyed, stolen, or removed by the British in the late

In the article paragraph 17 states that art had been stolen. The robbers were smart, because they've yet to be catch them. It has gotten to the point where they have to ask the FBI for help. The robbers had covered up their tracks so well they couldn't find anything to catch them. These notebooks were intentionally removed before they were recovered when they were shipped in 1942. 5+ years later four of the notebooks were recovered when they turned up for sale at Sotheby's. Yet six of the priceless artifacts are still unaccounted for.

They are all African American Artist, although they are extremely similar to each other. Each one of them trying to indicate art is art is nothing to do with black and white people. Art is for represented you to the world. It’s all about creating something new to the world. As an African American they created different art from their own culture and won religion. They are very similar to each other because they are all artists of their own thinking such as they use their own idea to create art. The interesting part is that Artist thinks about the American history first and creates a photo or art or video as well. Each one of them is famous African American artist who shared a history, culture, the experience and struggles of their art work.

After have dinner with a group of illustrator friends, posters on street inadvertently grabs my attention. Walking on a familiar path to home, I see posters are secretly glued on coner of wall, showed on large screen at side of street, passing around like booklet... if every poster stands for an event, then it is surprising to notice such many events are silently on going around me.