The Cleveland Museum of Art has many different collections of art ranging from Prints, Ancient Egyptian Art, and Contemporary Art. The collection that I personally enjoy the most is Contemporary Art. Contemporary art is something that people can relate to and something that can be discussed. One piece of work that stands out the most to me is Bringing Forth the Fruits of Righteousness from Darkness created by Damien Hirst. This particular work of art caught my eye because of the materials used to make it, how the eye perceives it, and the theme behind the painting. In todays world everything is so fast paced that we never truly stop to look at all the beauty that surrounds us and eventually we start taking that beauty for granted. The painting Bringing Forth the Fruits of Righteousness was created in 2008. This painting was designed to represent a trio of stained-glass windows from a Gothic cathedral. The medium that Hirst used for this painting was thousands of butterflies embedded in household paint and then put onto a canvas. Hirst specifically bred these butterflies for this painting, which had many people outraged including PETA. The meaning behind many of Hirst’s works mainly focuses around the themes of life and death. That theme is present in the butterfly painting because it follows the Latin phrase memento mori, which translates to “remember you will die”. When I first analyzed this piece of work it took a couple of minutes to take it all in. I realized that there are many formal elements that take place within this painting. The first formal element within the painting is the lines. Although, Hirst didn’t necessarily draw lines on the canvas, he painted and then placed the butterflies through out the three paintin... ... middle of paper ... ...ruits of Righteousness from Darkness caught my eye instantly for many reasons whether it was because the materials that were used to make it isn’t something you see everyday, the way the painting just draws you in with its detail and beauty, or what the paintings mean to you. In todays world we don’t take the time to appreciate the beauty the surrounds us, but that beauty will eventually fade and we will regret the time that we took it for granted. Works Cited "Cleveland Museum of Art." Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art, 24 Nov. 2009. Web.15 Mar. 2014. . Litt, Steven. "Northeast Ohio." The Plain Dealer. The Plain Dealer, 06 Dec. 2009. Web. 15 Mar. 2014. .
New York City is known for its extensive collection of art museums ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is usually the most renowned to others such as the the Solomon R. Guggenheim or the Whitney Museum of American Art which are popular in their own rights. This abundance of art museums makes the city very attractive for foreign visitors. However, this abundance of choice can overwhelm even the most informed visitors who have a finite amount of time to explore what the city has to offer. Although all of the above mentioned museums have great collections of their own, the often unheralded Frick Collections might trump them all in terms of exceptional works which include some of the world's most celebrated Western artists, such as Goya, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, and Renoir.
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For my research I decided to visit the Smithsonian art museum in Washington dc. The Smithsonian art museum has about 3299 art works on display for viewing. I was able to see many great works of art while the art museum. The trip was eye opening. I was exposed to different art techniques with varying use of contrast and depth. I noted the different brush strokes and drawing styles and how they varied between each artist. After viewing many works of art, I decided to compare Henry O Tanner’s painting “The head of a Jew in Palestine” with Alice Pike Barneys painting, “The head of a Negro Boy”
This book was also one of my first encounters with an important truth of art: that your work is powerful not because you convey a new emotion to the audience, but because you tap into an emotion the audience already feels but can't express.
...giving to humanity. Both paintings seem to suggest that this kind of selflessness will result in serenity.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) had three different artists work on display. It was split up into three different rooms the first room was Design 99 To Much of a Good Thing and in the next room is Latoya Ruby Frazier Mother May I and in the last room was Jef Geys Woodward Avenue. The art that was on display was not traditional art work. All of the artist’s work displayed in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit was out of the box thinking. The flow in each exhibit made it easy to move from one piece of art work to another piece of work.
The Interpretation/Meaning (III) will be written without any guideline points, the aim of this part will be to determine what the painter wanted to express with his piece of work and what it tells us in a symbolic or not instantly clear way. This part will also handle why the artist drew the painting the way he did it and why he chose various techniques or tools.
...retation of the painting some aspects were surprising to how dark and heavy hearted she could speak, she took an interesting perspective. However in her interpretative poem she found a perspective of the painting that connected with her. As she used every stroke of darkness painted into the canvas an opportunity to have it symbolize this darkness and evil that resides in the world. It told her story and her experience of a starry night. Similarly Van Gogh had used every stroke of light painted into the canvas to be a symbol of beauty, and a symbol of his fascination of the night sky and its illuminating lights. He uses swift movements of his brush to depict a sky that seem to be able to sweep the mind away from the frustrations of this world in to the dreamy night light. A single painting worth a million words tells many stories through every perspective.
images in this painting, all of which have the power to symbolize to us, the viewer, of the painter’s
My first experience at the museum was a good one. I had so much fun even after we were done with the Norton-Simon. Being a business major, I did not know that art could speak to me as it did. It has not influenced me so much as to change my major, but it did open my eyes to a whole new world. Now when I look at art, I do not just see a pretty picture, but what the artist is actually trying to say.
Crowther’s main point is that, if visual art is to be understood in ways going beyond the spectatorial viewpoint alone, art must be examined within both the analytic and phenomenological traditions of philosophy (page). He offers critical discussions of Wollheim, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan and Dufrenne to demonstrate this. (Curiously, he omits from his analysis Ingarden’s work, Bachelard’s poetics of space and Nietzsche, whose philosophy could have helped him to develop a connection between picturing and eternal recurrence more effectively.)
Seeing the art in person truly made me see the beauty and captivity a painting can hold. Each gallery was filled with different American works. My favorite kind of paintings are the ones I can look at and immediately write a story in my head about what is happening, even if it not what the artist intended. As I was going through the galleries one painting in particular stuck in my mind. I was fortunate enough to experience a special exhibition called, “Audubon to Warhol.” It was composed of different works acquired from private and public collections. I was lured to the emotions that was captured by the main figure in one of the works. I was drawn not only to the beauty of the painting, but the story it shared. The painting I chose was Peeling Onions, by Lilly Martin Spencer.
One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.
We do tend to expect certain things when we enter a place of worship, or peruse an active ministry, and truthfully, when taking in Christian oriented art. There are a couple reoccurring emblems, symbols, well-worn themes, and subjects which have been deemed safe, coming under overuse, carrying the weight of a saltine in the impact it makes on people, including us. While intentions are almost always well meaning, these conventions appear to the secular as a genre of its own in culture and art, quite often ringing with an unsavory note of incompetence. That’s already an unpleasant attribution to a faith that has changed the world, having built the infrastructure of empathy that has survived ages and permeates the social development of our western culture. It speaks to a deeper issue within the Church itself, which is a woeful lack of inspiration.
When the Lord has blessed you with financial blessings, you must also do His will. The will of God is for you to live a righteous life, and He can only release your blessings when you abide in holiness. In addition to a righteous life, you must also follow the visions that the Holy Spirit would give you. The Holy Spirit is our Helper, He will reveal to you which job or business you need to pursue in order to get the blessings of God. There is a light of provision for you somewhere, and you need to discover that light. You would receive your financial blessings by doing what God says you must do. If the Holy Spirit guides you to pursue a certain direction, you must follow that direction because it is where the light of provision has been put