Art History Personal Statement

Overview, background: Enlightenment, (Newton & Galileo); Classicism/Romanticism (French & other Revolutions); Impressionism & Post (Industrial Revolution, Darwin), Modernism (WWI, Freud, WWII) Pop & Op (Vietnam, sexual revolution, Watergate); today (technological revolution).

Which is more important color or drawing? These two have always been fought over for centuries by Poussiniste and Rubenistes. Two great pieces of art that were created in the 1600’s are Peter Paul Rubens’ The Caledonian Boar Hunt and Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape with Calm. While Rubens argues that color is the most important part of the painting Poussin argues that the drawing is more important. In the paragraphs below I will talk about the paintings each individually and then compare them.

In week four, we watched part of the documentary We Were Children directed by Tim Wolochatiuk. The documentary highlighted the extreme challenges, situations, and abuse First Nations children went through in Canadian residential schools. While watching the survivors outline their experiences. I realize that although we no longer have a residential school system in place, discrimination, stereotyping, and abuse still happen to the Aboriginal people. As a white person, I know that I will never understand what their daily struggle is like. My previous knowledge of residential schools was very limited, but I found the documentary to be very informative and educational.

Man Ray like many other artists did not care to have his personal life shown in his art. He wanted to be viewed and recognized for his work which included sculptures, paintings, and photography. Man Ray was mostly influenced by Stieglitz's photographs. Man Ray used a similar style to Stieglitz. He captured images that created an unvarnished look at the photos' subject. Man Ray discovered a new way to create his photos; by accident in his work room he discovered how to manipulate objects in his photos on pieces of photosensitive paper.

This project was started in the hope of finding demographic information and anecdotes that spoke to how indigenous peoples who have survived Residential (substitute for the word reform, death, or both,) Schools, and how their lives have changed. It was wrong to have thought that something so definitive would have been found. However, I have learned the greatest form of resistance to the very government and structures that put them in these schools are their voices. It seemed odd to just focus on the schools and not the undeniable repercussions and trauma that the students/prisoners went through.

With financial support by Ohio Humanities, a Curators’ Talk by Ruth Erickson and Helen Molesworth, held at the opening, Sept. 16, 2016. Erickson is an associate curator with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Molesworth is the chief curator with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. | Click here to view the talk. |

1. Discuss the impact of photography on the nineteenth-century landscape. How did it affect painting? What were the political implications of the medium? Use examples to support your essay.

My intended major is Art History. When I first took the Ancient-Medieval class in 2011, I was taken back by all the historic beauty to be seen and stories, to be heard. When I met Terri McDermott, my Western art professor, I became drawn even more so. I loved every lecture, assignment, exam, and taking notes. Having become an outspoken student, I communicated to professor McDermott after every class about comparisons between movements and artists. She quickly took notice of my interest and motivated me to take on the next class. At this time, I started to believe I had found my major so I set up an appointment to meet with a counselor to create my educational plan. From then on I began checking off classes on the associates degree for transfer

In Grandview Boulevard, completed in 1974 CE, the artist utilizes painterly brushstrokes. The shadows of the trees that are painted dark purple appear to have more painterly aspects than the rest of the composition. From far away, the painting seems smooth and sleek, but up close, the individual thick brushstrokes can be seen. The implied texture of the leaves in the painting is sturdy and prickly, and the texture of the yellowed grass appears to be dry and coarse, however, the actual texture of the painting itself is smooth. The artist also uses both curvilinear and geometric lines. In looking at the trees in the painting, they are composed of primarily geometric lines (excluding the leafy top) that run in a

Although the continuation of mastering subjects can provide a building of previous skills, experiences outside of comfortable environments in creative learning catalyze self-improvement. In the art world, Michelangelo was an artist who became famous for his prolific sculpting, such as his depiction of the religious figure, David. Despite public fame in the art society for his sculptured renderings, Michelangelo continued to challenge himself and pursued other artistic forms such as painting. And his creative experimenting paid off not only in accomplishing a self-improvement, but also growing his artistic recognition. Similarly taking on challenges in the art world, this school year, I choose to take AP Art History. I began the class with limited knowledge consisting of only basic facts. However, as the semester progressed, I began to become familiar with the subject and started to notice that i could interpret pieces of art beyond a basic analysis. By making the personal choice to experiment in a subject I knew little about, I was exposed to an entirely different view of humanity; and therefore, improved my individual growth. Additionally, exploration separate from comfortable settings in physical activities creates

When I was watching video about the residential school, I was able to resonate myself with the story she was telling because I am one of the person who was unaware about the aboriginal people and the residential school until I got one assignment related to the residential school in my first semester. I thought that residential school still exists until my professor clarified it does not. Residential school was opened to educate, assimilate and integrate aboriginal people into Canadian society but the experience of the resident school students does not match with their purpose. It was so painful to know that aboriginal children were taken from their homes, removed from their families by long distance, forbidden to speak their language or practice their own culture, suffered from sexual and physical abuse, used for medical experiments. I can imagine how difficult it is for someone to lose their identity and unable to relate oneself with their own culture. We are always talking about holistic, culturally competent, safe care but to provide these care we need to understand and respect others culture.

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.

A couple weeks ago I was given the opportunity to visit and get a tour of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School by the Woodland Culture Centre in Brantford Ontario. There are no words to explain how I felt during this field trip. I was horrified by what I felt and heard, what I am currently learning about in my Indigenous studies class and by what is still going on.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, I started working at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. For about a year, I worked with artists and authors to organize book signing events. Now, life has taken me to Texas, and I am currently working at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the most visited museum in Houston. I have decided that a graduate degree in Museum Studies will help advance me in a career field in which I am very passionate. For my graduate research, I would like to delve deeper into museum theory, work to fully understand how guests interact with objects, learn how curators create exhibitions, and research the capabilities of digital technologies in the galleries.

Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to