Art 100 Museum Paper

A primary objective in measuring productivity is to improve operations either by using fewer inputs to produce the same output, or to produce:

This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their

Required Text: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, eds. Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, University of California Press, 1996.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS). (2017). Collection. Retrieved from MOMA Museum of Modern Art, US: Museum of Modern Art [US]/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78699

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.

Ophelia’s degradation follows the death of Polonius, Hamlet’s rejections and absence as a result of his personal vendetta, and Laertes’ departure from Denmark. Gertrude describes Ophelia’s death, claiming that she “Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.” (Shakespeare 197).

During 1852, John Everett Millais created an astounding masterpiece, of oil on canvas, called Ophelia. The primary focus is the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The painting is made to illustrate the tragic death of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, where she fell in the stream and drowned. In the painting, Ophelia is observed lying down in the middle of a running, narrow, river. She is painted with a long white dress layered with lace and beads highlighting her importance in the painting.

To begin, Ophelia is one of Shakespeare’s well-known character that he created in Hamlet. There has been examination about how Ophelia in Hamlet is as a character but the way she is brought forth in Hamlet suggests that she is a woman that is one-dimensional so to speak but to she has the potential to become a tragic heroine. One that is capable of not using her adversities that are inflicted upon her but instead crumbles into insanity and finally just becomes tragic compared to a tragic heroine. ¬Particularly, the painting by Sir John Everett Millais was completed by 1852 and is based on Ophelia in Hamlet. This painting (Image 1) “is one of the best-known illustrations from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet”. The Ophelia painting is located at the Tate Museum in London. This painting displays Ophelia tragic death, he displays her the moment she falls into the stream and drowns surrounded by luscious greenery. This painting was done in two separate locations, the landscape which is the background was painted outside while the figure of Ophelia indoors with a young woman model for his reference.

Her destiny appears to be in a nunnery to prevent her dreadful life from progressing to insanity, but reality snatches her first. Ophelia’s motive of revenge is brought upon several characters through a shameful crime; suicide. Her lifeless body floats in a bed of water surrounded by flowers after the drowning occurs. Shakespeare’s brilliant imagery provides the reader with an insight of just how peaceful her death is, but it also guides the reader towards why she killed herself in the first place. Revenge is the main reason of Ophelia’s suicide and her wishes come true after her brother, Laertes, is deeply affected.

There are many missing art works in the United States , Some of them are not found. It is getting harder and harder for the police and other departments to find missing artworks. With many new things coming into the world everyday , such as technology. Even though they are looking everywhere like libraries and bringing the FBI into this , they still have no luck. Most of these artworks that are stolen are worth expensive amount of money. They are up to $500 million dollars , which is the biggest artwork theft in American history.

During the late 1800s, many artists turned away from “pure and realistic lines of the Neoclassical period” and instead focused on placing the viewers in a “new world, far removed from the realities of everyday life” John William Waterhouse was an English painter born in Rome in April 1849 at the time “when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and poverty was rife within the poorer communities of England” (Dorment 3). He was destined to become an artist as both his parents, William and Isabella, worked as painters and frequently encouraging their son to draw and sketch art that he saw in the British Museum and National Gallery. Waterhouse’s family moved to England sometime in the 1850s where the young painter helped his father in the

All over the world, art is used to represent many things, especially the artist's imagination

The first piece of art to be displayed is Eugene Delacroix’ a Basket of Flowers. Delacroix was a French Romantic painter of his time. This painting is currently housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At the time it was painted there was great social and political unrest in post-revolutionary Paris, Delacroix left and returned to his country house, Champrosay, in September 1848. He then began a series of flower paintings, made “for the Salon of 1849”, that he hoped would capture the different characteristics and ascetic appeal of garden flowers. Because there was a possibility it might frost, he worked quickly and created five canvases. This is one of them, an oil painting, its dimensions are 42 1/4 x 56 in. (107.3 x 142.2 cm) and

The history of drawing in the Italian Renaissance developed throughout the years to be considered an art in its own right. This new movement was originated and centered in Italy. Throughout the course of history, the limited accessibility to paper helped to mold and develop the medium and material in which artists used to draw. During the course of the Italian Renaissance artists improvised ways to express their art and emotions by using materials other than paper.

John Everett Millais’ Ophelia painted in 1851 is a depiction of noble woman Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Ophelia’s story is tragic as she loses the favour of price Hamlet who then goes on to kill Ophelia’s father. Ophelia is driven mad by these event and is found dead in a brook, the scene depicted in Millais’ painting. True to the Pre-Raphaelites and Ruskin’s ideology the background was painted from observation with great care and detail. Perhaps the most