Adams And Beltr Legacy And Longevity

Back in my school years I used to visit many historical museums, where I learned a lot about the culture and society of the past. As I have always been interested in history and arts, all that was a breathtaking experience for me. I believe that these museums is the best way to get closer to lives of our ancestries and it can help us to see the world in a different way. However, to be more knowledgeable about the world we live in, it’s also extremely important to be familiar with modern art. So this time I decided to experience something new and started searching for a museum which would contain works of contemporary artists. Tampa Museum of Art was a great option. This Museum was founded in 1979 and since then it has curated three exhibitions covering the Classical World to Mid-Century Modernist works,

Thinking about a tree, one might think about the leaves and how they could symbolize balance, growth, and harmony. Or one might think about how a tree represents nature itself by symbolizing such attributes as strength, stability, diversity and withstanding the greatest of challenges to survive. Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site specific land art which embody these characteristics and represent nature as a whole. Goldsworthy’s process is to be as involved in nature as he possibly can and to produce sculptures to draw out the character of the environment. He seeks to draw emphasis to the beauty and exquisiteness of nature while also displaying the stages of life nature goes through; it grows, stays and decays as an integral part of the circle of life. Goldsworthy’s piece Ice Spiral: Tree Soul, exemplifies these distinctive elements and displays his unique technique in a way that captures the essence of nature. When one first looks upon the photograph of Tree Soul, it almost looks unreal or that the ice spiral surrounding the tree was digitally added to the image of the tree. The spiral ice sculpture is perfectly molded to wrap around the tree and opens the eyes of the audience in sensing the beauty and multidimensional details of the natural world.

For the scope of this essay there will be exploration into three main issues. Firstly, whether or not the desirability of art is in its—replicable—physical forum, or in its provenance. Next, the concept of and the extent to which revamped art can be considered

A desire to possess landscapes prevents us from noticing its beauty. The tautological didactic message “the camera blurs the distinction between looking and noticing” excoriates humanity’s ignorance of landscape’s beauty due to our impulses to possess beauty via mediums such as cameras. Instead, we should try to notice elements and understand their construction. This is why Vincent van Gogh postulated that “the night is even more richly coloured than the day” – viewed as

For this essay, we were required to go to the Getty Villa in Malibu and look for specific works of art in the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is on a hill adjacent to Malibu beach and requires a reservation to get inside. They do not allow pedestrian entrances, so I had to take public transportation and show proof of my Metro bus receipt to get in. Once inside, I took a shuttle up a curvy hill to the actual museum. When I got to the actual entrance, I was taken aback by how beautiful not only the view was, but the Villa was as well. It did not take me long to find the five artworks.

17. On my museum experience, I took it in like every other visit to the museum I have ever had: much like other children expressed wonder and amazement at a circus performance or sports game; I was awestruck and mesmerized by the colors, the atmosphere, and the same restrained joy that I felt evident in the eyes of all the other observers. My girlfriend and I made our way through the museum, blending in with crowds of other viewers to see Cezanne, Gauguin, Brueghel, O’Keefe and the like in the permanent collection, making time to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. But my heart has always had a soft spot for

Much of his focus on the natural aspects of the landscape is comparable to the romantic era of literature, more specifically, the focus on the stirring of emotions through the uses of technique, color and even structure. This works to strengthen his place as one of the greatest landscape

Nature has long been called the canvas of God. Ink and color crafted by the hand of man are a poor substitute to mirror the beauty of nature but a photograph can do the job much better, if not exactly alike. Andy Lee, a well established creative director, film-maker, photographer, painter and self proclaimed manic doodler has captured the silent beauty of nature on his photograph series titled ‘Patagonia Dreaming 1’.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is among the world’s largest art collections, and to be specific enough the most prevalent artwork in the western United States (Compton 165). This massive art museum has a collection of over a hundred thousand artworks, whose origin extends from the prehistoric times to present days (Gilbert and Mills 174). These collections are classified into several departments within the museums buildings, depending on their region of origin, culture they represent, and time period from which they were found. This paper analyzes the different genres of art found in this museum and explains the main features that make the African and Asian artworks, specifically the Islamic artworks, distinguish themselves as

Although clearly a documentary image of the scene, the photograph also employs many of the artistic conventions of landscape painting. The narrowly focused composition does not allow the viewer’s eye to wander through the

As stated above, public art is very convoluted and ever-expanding, especially in our contemporary world. Cartier, acknowledges the hardship of putting art in boxes due to the sheer diversity and approaches to works, stating that one can find “permanent works, temporary works, political activism, service art, performance, earthworks, community projects...etc”.3 Do these account for public art, or art in general? Rosalind Krauss, aware of the

Both of these images are beautiful and are some of my favorites. They were both shot in Black and White, and they appear to have been captured using the soft early light of the morning sunlight. They are both of the Nature Landscape genre.

According to David Hume, a great philosopher in 18th century, “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” As a result, “good art” is the judgement of individual base on their positive sentiment toward an artwork, and that is called the taste of art. Besides, David Hume also believes there is something will make an artwork better than others. To experience that belief, after falling in love with two artworks-“A Bull Fight” and “The Bonaventure Pine”- in the exhibition at Museum of Fine Art Houston, based on the personal taste of art to state that “A Bull Fight” is better artwork than “The Bonaventure Pine” even though both are beautiful.

Katsushika Hokusai is a Japanese artist that likes to stretch your imagination, in both artworks it’s almost as he’s indulging into these wild fantasies. As if he’s trying to tell a crazy adventure from his point of view. I particularly enjoy these artworks because it displays the courage in obstacles to face much greater than himself, or in this case nature. Katsushika Hokusai creates a sense as if we were all children again, with an imagination where we can hear, play and see natural environments from a new perspective.

Nature meant great deal to the romantics, such as it has been perceived as the healing power, a source of subject and image, a resort from the artificial constructs of