Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Modern Art Analysis

The writer went to the Leepa-Rattner Museum at Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College. Before the visit, one went to the museum webpage and read about the museum and current exhibitions. It showed the " East meets West: New Japanese Traditions." Therefore, one was expected to see the Japanese style of art, like dragon and Japanese cherry blossom. At the beginning, one's feeling was perplexed, because the exhibitions were a mismatch with one's thought, but one could find the section for the Japanese art. In addition, this paper will cover about the museum, its artifacts, and relationship between humanities and art.

In today’s society, we are constantly being bombarded with visual art forms. Whether they be classical paintings from the Renaissance, a towering and modern skyscraper, or even a cheesy 90’s R&B music video, they all have one thing in common. According to Carolyn Dean’s definition, these would all fall under the category of “art by intention.” In her essay “The Trouble with (The Term) Art” she advocates a distinction between art by intention and what she deems “art by appropriation.” The difference is that one work was created with the intention of being consumed for visual pleasure, while the other was not. However having been educated in the Western school of thought, many art historians cannot help but project their rigid definition of art onto civilizations that may have

Upon entering the museum I was bombarded by this 12 x 45 ft. architectural painting. Almost resembling the museum building itself. With sharp horizontal and verticals lines, this multi colored piece reminded me of our last piece from project 8. Using a variety of colors with no obvious correlation, the clash of colors instantly made me reflect on how I could improve future and previous projects alike. The amount of straight lines in different lengths and widths, also reminded me of our piece from project 1. With no curves and lines going every which way, its amazing how a piece made entirely of lines with no figures could be so captivating.

The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is home to a variety of interesting paintings, sculptures, and other types of mixed-media artwork.

Whether pride, fear, or peace, art is intended to make the viewer feel an emotion. The visit to the St. Louis Art Museum had me excited to discover a new revelation. Being the second time that I had visited in two semesters, I was looking forward to a new angle to take, writing about some of my favorite pieces I was unable to include in my last paper. This semester we have been focusing on the Renaissance era (1300-1700), also known as the Rebirth. During this time, scholars and artists looked back towards the classical learning. Purposefully looking past the middle-ages, they focused on the classical past of Rome and Greece. During this time period many works of art were created, however, throughout this semester every major artist we studied

I was required to go visit at Dallas Art Museum from Art Appreciation class. I went to the Dallas Art Museum and look through the art gallery. I was assigned to identify and write about six different function of art. The six function of art was maintained in the Patrick Frank book Artforms. The six function of art were Art of Delight, Art of Worship and Ritual, Art of commemoration, Art of commentary, Art of persuasion, and Art of Self-Expression. I was told by professor to write a four-page paper base of the six function of art that I was in museum. In the museum there was variety of art from different cultures and country. The histories of art were inside Dallas Museum of Art, many artist artworks were presented and many Gods sculptures and painting were displayed. There were many

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, part of the New Orleans Museum of Art, contains several dozen 20th century and 21st century sculptures from across the globe. The five-acre garden mostly features figures from American and European artists, most of them being created within the past 70 years. Surrounded by the beautiful landscape of City Park, many impressive works are presented at the sculpture garden. However, two particular works that stood out to me were the Venus Victorius and Untitled.

The Pasadena Museum of California Art has a beautiful exterior with an open-air staircase with moody light play from an oculus above its entrance to a three-story facility. The walls all around it are covered in complicated patterns and symbols. The building definitely stands out against all the other buildings in the area. The inside is very roomy, and filled with lots of artwork all around.

The Mapping exhibit at ASU’s art museum was founded by Mary Hood. Who is the director in the Arizona State University School of art. The idea behind the exhibit was to have Native Americans and other “indigenous” artists work alongside students at ASU. Together the groups would make limited editions prints. These prints would reflect the medium or techniques that the student uses. These mediums could be painting, weaving, beadwork, or ceramic. The term mapping, means a multiple artist printing. This reflects the fact that there is multiple people who work on each project.

The Cleveland Museum of Art possess a collection of more than 30,000 works of art that ranges over 5,000 years (Ancient Egypt to present) from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. The museum opened on June 6, 1916 to give people access to physically visualize works of art created by intellectuals and to honor and appreciate the complexity of their art and legacy they left for us. This year makes the Cleveland Museum of Art’s centennial, 100-year anniversary, so institutions around the world loaned works of art to the museum for a beautiful exhibition. In the Cleveland Museum of Art’s permanent collection, it includes one of Nicolas Poussin’s greatest accomplishment, The Holy Family on the Steps.

This leads us to The Connoisseur, an oil painting on canvas completed in 1961. That year, Rockwell ambitiously challenged himself to approach the canvas like Jackson Pollack (1912-1956). By laying the canvas on the floor, his studio was temporarily transformed into an abstract expressionist's workshop. Rockwell was captivated by the idea of portraying the relationship between conventional and modern art, juxtaposing his own style alongside a work of nonrepresentational art. Standing with his back to us, Rockwell allows the viewer to decide for themselves what they think the museum visitor’s reaction is to this Pollack-like painting, and indirectly so, what their own opinion is.

61 (Rust and Blue). This piece is a painting that was layered with color on canvas. Rothko decided to use “layered colors to enrich the hues in the painting and to lend it a quality that artist described a that of ‘inner light’” (mark-rothko.org). This piece was created in 1953. This piece, Fountain, and the “Oyster dress” were all created in close proximity to each other in comparison to Pieta, which was created between 1498 and 1499. This piece by Rothko “consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades” (mark-rothko.org). From the documentary we watched on Rothko the other day in class, I learned that he wanted his paintings to evoke the basic human emotions. Although this piece is simple it is meant to resonate with the audience so that they can personally connect with it I some way. I think this is a very different approach to art. Most artists try to paint a scene, or have a story behind their art but Rothko approaches his art with emotion in hopes that it evokes emotion with others. This piece was created in a relatively similar time period to some of the other pieces, but its materials and intention are different from all of the other

“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. “- Francis Bacon. However when I learnt more about history of art and the way each movement and happenings in the world inspired artist to make new works, I was able to see much more than just a canvas with random paints and sketches. The interesting part about this concept is that each piece of art could be interpreted in many different ways. In contemporary art there isn’t right and wrong, each of us view and find different meanings and connections with artworks.

Behind every art is a true intention and meaning no matter how much one may go beyond boundaries. Visiting Dallas for break, I found myself at The Dallas Contemporary. Dallas contemporary is one of the most unique museums located near the heart of Dallas. It’s known as a “non- collecting” museum which attracts thousands of people interested in contemporary art. Within the museum you will see art like no other, art that challenges the question “what is art”, “There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please” (James Frey). Due to the fact that art has evolve over the years, unique artists around the world presents contemporary art that is placed in the museum. For the art review I decided to use a interesting painting that caught my attention during my visit to the museum.

When it comes to art appreciation and definition one is left at odds when societal practices do not reflect theoretically sound arguments regarding the identity of a work. On one hand, paintings like the Mona Lisa are displayed with great importance in museums around the world, with thousands of visitors daily trekking to see “the” Mona Lisa, while just outside vendors are selling copies on canvas, poster and magnet of the very same image. To help in the understanding of this phenomenon, and to determine the work identity of the Mona Lisa, we shall examine the validity of arguments put forth by Frank Sibley in “Why the Mona Lisa May Not be a Painting” which draws upon several concepts of art identity put forth by Goodman and Elgin in “Interpretation and Identity: Can the Work Survive the World?”. After this examination I will briefly add on to Sibley’s arguments bringing them a step further in conclusion, but let us first begin with the establishing principles of work identity proposed in the two articles.