Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen found controversy when they began thinking about the creation of the art pieces in 1991. Many people believed that they were frivolous, so they disapproved the establishment of the art. Despite the major nonacceptance of the shuttlecocks in the early 1990’s, the enormous shuttlecocks are now valued at the museum. Some people even pronounce them to be a representation of Kansas City itself. These are giant sculptures mimicking real life shuttlecocks that are
Europe after the Black Death moved into a period of intense creative revolution and advancement in all creative fields. This Renaissance period moved all aspects art and architecture away from the medieval gothic style and into a time of classical rejuvenation. The architectural side of this movement grew out of Italian cities like Florence, Venice and Rome and would greatly impact architectural design throughout the world for centuries. Among the most influential architects of this period was Leon
Marquis Payton CST 2430 Research paper The Jain Shrine is a very beautiful piece of art. The beauty when you look at makes you really makes you wonder how long a piece of work like that takes to make. The Dayton art intuition has a very wide variety of pieces of art from all over the world. As I looked around the museum the Jain shrine really caught my eye. As you read on into my essay I will focus on a couple of key features. Like where it came from, what it is made out of, the importance of this
photographs with images they have taken in the past. Photographs from Precipice are featured on the Catherine Edelman gallery and can also be seen in numerous museum collections like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), the International Museum of Photography at
I will describe and evaluate the work, Relief No. 1, by Henry Moore, in this paper. This abstract sculpture, created in 1959, can be located in the Kansas City Sculpture Park at The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art. The bronze figure, with green and brown undertones, stands 223.52 cm (7 feet 4 inches) (Henry Moore Works in Public). Tate.org.uk lists the size of Relief No. 1 as 7 feet 3 inches x 4 feet 1 inch x 1 foot inches (The Tate Gallery, 1981). Henry Moore was an English artist born in
molten lava that is flowing down its mountainsides. Though during Pether’s generation he wasn’t the only one to paint the well-known Mount Vesuvius, Joseph Wright of Derby also painted 30 paintings of the volcano. This art piece is currently located at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The piece is oil media on panel that is framed with a beautifully designed border, where it is hanging on a wall in the one of the rooms, with a one-dimension view. The quality of the piece owes itself to the color and
Emerson and the Universal Connection to Nature When visiting the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, the American art floor comprises of two styles: paintings of landscapes and nature, and portraits of men, women, and children. These pieces date back to the mid 18th century. Before the founding of the United States, Americans connected to nature. Still today, American identity links directly to nature. R. W. Emerson’s “Nature” describes this attachment. The difference between the American and European landscape
Introduction “The house is a machine for living in”. Famous quote from Le Corbusier which generated a lot of criticism and discussion. Should housing be seen as a machine or as an organism itself. With the development of human existence, the aspect of living is also changing trough the eras. This essay is devoted to the examination of the Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation and Steven Holl’s Simmons Hall. Regarding the aspects of how social hosing is being developed in the past century and today’s
Jade is of significant importance in art history and especially in the Chinese culture which is one of the world’s oldest civilizations known. Jade is a gem stone comprised of many minerals. It is generally described as a smooth stone with a rich texture and extremely hard, tough and durable. There are two forms of jade generally found. The first is nephrite, and is a crystalline calcium magnesium silicate compound and the second type is called jadeite, and is a sodium aluminum silicate compound