Analyzing The African Art Galleries On The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Art galleries are essential to the art world, however, is not the only source for audiences to view art. To begin with, art and artwork is defined as the application of human skill, creativity and imagination. Taking this into consideration, individuals need to examine the nature and purpose of art galleries as a facility to collaborate, organize and display a collection of artworks. As art however, is any expression of human creativity, its presence is not bound to art galleries and is evidently present in the world around us be it in photographs, the internet or even in graffiti.

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

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.

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

In this essay, I will compare and contrast two different sculptures from two different contexts of art. The first being an Olmec Colossal head (monument 1), from the context of “Art of the Americas,” and the second sculpture being ahead from Rafin Kura. The head from Rafin Kura comes from the context of “Art of Africa.” Both sculptures come from two different time periods and parts of the world. They also are both made with natural materials and have their own symbolic meaning.

On October 9, 2015 I went to the Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art along with attending the Million Man March down in Washington D.C. The experiences were wonderful and I was very excited to be at both events. While at the museum I took two tours one at 10 am that was led by a woman named Nkechi Obi. She talked about docent African Arts. The next one was shortly after at11 am that was led by a teen ambassador named Nicholas Stewart, who was very intelligent. He talked about numerous pieces throughout the museum that had some significance to younger minds so I found that very helpful. After the tour I spent some time down at the mall in DC in which faced the Capitol. This was the Million Man March that was a very popular event that brought out many people. I would describe both events as lectures that were powerful and time put to good use.

Museum/Gallery Critique: A museum, gallery, or private collection visit followed by a written critique, two-page minimum, typed and double-spaced are required for this course. Detailed instructions will be distributed and

For this essay, I decided to analyze the art collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA, more specifically in the Jerome LioMel Joss Gallery. The Jermone LioMel Gallery contains the arts works of Africa, and the Pacific Islands so I will be analyzing arts from the two areas from Papua New Guinea and Nigeria. These arts pieces are the Veranda posts (opo), and the ornament for a sacred flute.

I had the opportunity to visit the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). It is placed in a wonderful scenario called the City Park, in which the three-story building is surrounded by oak trees and artificial lakes. At the desk, a lady welcomed you in a large hall dominated by a central stair. On each side of the hall, there are rooms with European paintings, in particular Dutch, Flemish, and Italian; in front, instead, there is a large room with photographs. As I finish my visit of the first floor and I moved up towards the second, right in front of me I see a bronze statue by Rodin, who I knew for his famous The Thinker. At the second floor, I can admire American, Spanish, and French painters; in particular, I recognize names such as Picasso,

The purpose of this paper is to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and write a reaction paper about art works at the museum based on my impressions about them. To begin, I will start by giving you a little of background information about this interesting museum.

As exhibitions do not represent a neutral position on a subject matter then the opinion and the process by which this opinion was formed should be defined and made transparent to the viewer. Our understanding of art is for the most part prescribed, Ferguson states “the ways in which art is talked about, understood and debated are largely determined through the medium of exhibitions” (Greenberg, Reesa, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne 1996, pg.180). As exhibitions seek to benefit and promote the desires and values from within this “network of interests” then we as viewers are simply told how to understand art, what is valuable and what is to be discarded. The way in which we come to understand art is laid out for us, with little room to draw our own conclusions.

The de Young museum seen from a distance is a bold architectural statement, with its sleek horizontal building, indeterminate dark brown color and its massive tower emerging from its slightly bent curving roof. The building is an example of boldness, internationalism and cultural neutrality. Its setting in the Golden Gate Park’s landscape with the topography, vegetation; weather and light are taken advantage of. The significance of nature and the art that is housed in the museum from the Americas, Oceania, and Africa can be seen as having resonance in the architecture. Many of the works of art are sacred in their cultures, are made of natural materials and were never intended to be displayed in formal settings. Post modern theme of ‘context’ comes into expression as Jacques Herzog put it: “These objects belong to nature. We wanted to emphasize that”.

The Tribal Art BBC Documentary and The Great African Art Collector Interview have very different perspectives. The Tribal Art documentary BBC Documentary revolves around a White- European man, Griff Rhys, trying to understand African Art and why certain pieces are used, their meanings, etc. Griff Rhys is an outsider looking into the world of African art and culture. The second film, The Great African Art Collector, is a Black man speaking about African art, his collection, the history, and his experiences as a collector. As a Black man his perspective about African art is about self-love, appreciating his culture, and wanting other Black people as a whole to be knowledgeable about their culture/history and to love being Black. There is a huge difference between a black person appreciating their own history and art form than another race being obsessed with African art. Most people that are not Black that claim to be appreciative of African art, African- American culture, anything African come from a place of fetishtion and a false “ deep connection” with African culture, in this case African art. Eric Edward also explains in his interview that a lot of African art collectors are racists and see it as a way of having power over black people. Each perspective talks about

I went to the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, located on 3275 Industrial road (major cross-street Desert Inn) which opened in August of 2008. At the museum it holds, erotic art, exhibits, different timelines and a lot of illustrated history of erotica. There were many tasteful pieces of artwork, whether it be painting, magazine covers, posters, figures, and sculptures. I was also very excited to have actually seen the piece called “Venus of Willendorf” that is featured in our book on page 164. I took my time looking at all the different pictures to see which I would choose from to write about. Then I observed one, it was untitled, made in 2008 and the artists name is Fang. I did research on the artist and did not find much on her

During the colonial age the governmental policies and the spread of Islam along new forms of education often restructured the political system. Education had been the context for creating and using art in Africa. Art forms and cultural practices adapted to the new circumstances as the artists began to introduce and improved materials; like the way Malick Sidibe did with his photography by giving these images a completely different meaning. These innovations symbolize resilience of African art and culture that explains the story of adapting to change while showing appreciation.