I decided to visit the D.I.A. for my first cultural museum evaluation. I chose to visit the D.I.A. because the last time I attended was back in high school which was about six years ago, and before then was when I was in the eighth grade. I vaguely remembered those times I did visit the institute and due to a lack of maturity I knew that I would cherish the experience much more this time around. I was always aware that the museum existed in Detroit, but I do feel as if I take the museum for granted like many others by not visiting it as often as I should as a resident of Detroit, and as an emerging college student who needs to develop an cultural awareness of the arts. I decided to visit the institute with my dear friend Tera …show more content…
contains a ton of art pieces it was spacious so it did however I did feel as if it was an overwhelming variety of paintings and monuments. The film “A Great and Mighty Walk” that we viewed in class had taught me valuable information that I was not aware of before. I decided that I would view the entire museum but I wanted to solely focus on the European, Egyptian and the African exhibits. In the film it discussed how the Europeans had stolen vastly all of the African traditions that we possessed and how they enslaved our ancestors and brought them over to America. They tried to erase our influence from history as if we just fell from the sky and into their chains. This film had me anxious to do my own research and compare the similarities in the D.I.A. of the European to the Egyptian and African art …show more content…
It displays stunning pieces of statues, masks, trinkets and some African apparel. My favorite piece of this exhibit was the Ethiopian Coptic Christian triptych. It depicts the story of Christ in different segments. It displays Mother Mary, baby Jesus and some disciples. It also has an image of Jesus when he died on the cross. The best part of this piece was that they were all individuals who were pigmented with a beautiful copper color. It was not the image of Christ that the Europeans has popularized which was really a portrait of Michelangelo’s cousin this was the depiction of how the bible described which I found
The Tampa Museum of Art was not always the same museum that we see today. It went through multiple stages throughout the years. The works vary, creating a large spectrum from the old to the new. The social angles change with the exhibits in the museum, combining to create the diversity we see today. Visiting this museum in person helped me to appreciate it even more than I would have thought possible. Observing and analyzing the other visitors helped me to understand the museum’s impact on the community more than I would have been able to just by reading about it. This museum is much different from others than I have visited.
From that point on there’s a digital interactive guide that displays the layout of the museum and location of the exhibits. The museum is divided into quadrants with an elliptical rotunda in the middle. The rotunda is illuminated by natural light from the glass dome with skylights above you. Also when you look up you can see extraordinary symbolic painting on the ceiling. From the center of the rotunda you can go left or right to see the exhibits of Native Americans. For some reason I felt like going in through the left, aside from the fact that the right side was closed for renovations. I headed left into the “Time Exposure” exhibit by the Haudenosaunee Discovery Room. When entering the exhibit it can seem a bit disoriented, but you just have...
Through some of these artifacts, we can see how the christian spiritual world has been shaped, leaving a great affect for the cuter generations who build off of it. and it is through Museums can future generations grow from the foot steps of the tools of our ancestors to help promote our future. Museums are also known to captivate the minds of many with the wonders of the ancient world all there to be seen and learned about. The Dunham Bible Museum accomplishes that task of offering knowledge to those who seek it through the rare and amazing pieces of history.
The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time, Italian, Spanish, and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea of what the paintings were like in these four centuries and reflected ideas of both the east and the west.
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The trip to the metropolitan museum was a great trip to learn and to study art. What is art you may ask, well art is an expression you use to show a visual picture. It can be through painting or through sculptures. Some other example of art is music, literature and dancing. For today 's paper we will be talking about art as a sculpture. The two sculptures in this photo are King Sahure and a Nome God and Marble Statue of Dionysos leaning on archaistic female figure (Hope Dionysos). You can find these statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. King Sahure and a Nome God is an Egyptian art that was made in 2458-2446 BCE. The artist is unknown. It was during the 5th dynasty and it also belong to the old kingdom. The Marble statue of Dionysos Leaning in the archaistic female figure is a Greco-Roman art. Belonging to the Roman imperial period of the late first century A.D. Augustan or Julio-Claudian period 27 B.C., to 68 AD. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it is made out of marble. The height of the statues is 82 ¾ inches. There is no evidence who was the original artist.
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.
Upon entering the Museum of Arts you turn right and enter a room that is titled the Asian Art. Once there you feel as though you have stepped into Asia and back in time to centuries long now gone. The artifact that I first took notice of was the Seated Buddha Sakyamuni since this has been an object we studied in class. The Seated Buddha is a statue and is representative of the 2nd – 3rd century.
I've visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History here in Pittsburgh. I decided to take a look at the Egyptian exhibit specifically the Walton wall of ancient Egypt. The exhibit it well put together and organized there's a lot of labeling and I'll plenty of different artifacts to see. They have a picture that shows you the chronology of ancient Egypt with the different periods and dynasties. This picture includes all of the dates so you can see what dynasties were alive in Egypt at what time and match it up with the artifacts that they have on the walls. This one picture is one of the most important and informative pieces in the entire exhibit. They also have many pieces that directly correlate with their everyday culture. This ranges anywhere
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.
... that Africans believes they have. In contrast, the Museums want nothing more than the art to be side by side with other great artefacts of other cultures within the museum, ‘to play their role in history’ (Spring, 2008). There is no direct process that can be prepared in appeasing both sides of the controversial artwork, for the museums perhaps want the artwork for worldwide benefit, whereas Africans want it for cultural reasons.
As I walk into the museum onto the first level, there are many different halls surrounding. To my left there is the African mammal exhibit. There are so many different creatures displayed, ranging from desert to rainforest. Some of the animals that are displayed are the Arabian Oryx, Savanna Elephant, Spotted Hyena, Hippopotamus and Okapi. When you browse there exhibits you are able to study and learn detail information. I learned that due to human encroachm...
As I arrived to the museum it was small and hard to find. We walked in and it was full of silence. Being raised in Los Angeles I found it awkward because mostly all of the places in the city are loud. They offered recordings to hear as we walk through the museum, but I chose to walkthrough read and feel all the emotions with out a narrative story. I learned so many things about the Jewish people and how badly they have been treated.
I experienced an event of a lifetime as I attended the African Art exhibit at the High Museum of Art. My first time enjoying the view within a museum went extremely well. I chose to participate in the African Art exhibit because I was interested in the great artifacts that were preserved from before the nineteenth century and shared with today’s society. If anyone was to ask me what museum exhibit do I recommend them to participate in, I would choose the High Museum of Art’s African Art exhibit.
The inside of the museum was intense because you walk into see two huge dinosaur structures in the front. There were also many entrances to different exhibits on top the entrances were enormous murals depicting various things. The murals showed all of the cultures around the world. All of the cultures are able to mix in with each other. For instance, the mural on top of the Asian Peoples exhibit was showing the many different Asian cultures such as Japanese, Korean, and Chinese mixing into one huge mural. There was the mural on top of the African Peoples exhibit that included prominent animals such as, lions and elephants. And lastly for the South American Peoples exhibit that included Theodore Roosevelt in the mural signifying the creation of the Panama Canal. I like how the murals all had the same color schemes. These murals showed the impact of various historical events having an im...