Artists And The Art Trade

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,

During the 1870s a new category of art formed known as the Aesthetic Movement, which was based upon not what world was around the art, but the art itself (Pohl 284). This movement originated in England and spread throughout the Americas opposing the current views about art during the time the it arose, which was the ideology that art must always serve some sort of clandestine purpose. Artists who supported the Aesthetic Movement also denied any moral values that people gave to art. The painting that I chose that best fits the ideals of aestheticism is In the Studio, 1880 by William Merritt Chase. During the 19th century industrialization rapidly began to change American culture bringing on consumerism and capitalism, which focused on the

Never before have I seen a museum as grand as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From its architecture to its massive art collection, The Met has a little bit of everything and one is sure to find something that captures his or her interest. Considering that The Met is the United States' largest art museum, it is easy to get lost within its many corridors and wings. My visit to The Met took place during the last week of July. Despite the almost unbearable heat and humidity that hung in the air, visiting museums under these climate conditions is a welcome respite from a suffocating, yet bright summer afternoon.

In early 19th century, the French government controlled the academies and salons of paintings. The impressionism took place in second half of 19th century, which was results of French artists rejecting the traditional government sanctioned academic painting that was dominating their arts at the time. The first independent art exhibition was held in 1874 for one month. Few of the famous artists’ who participated and help organize this exhibition was Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renior, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro along with 25 other artists. They displayed approximately 165 paintings during this exhibit. This group of artists referred themselves as

During our visit to the El Paso Museum of Art, our docent (insert name) took us on a tour of their current exhibitions: Robert Delaunay and Albert Gleizes: The School of Paris from Modern Master Series: Highlights from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Immaculate Conception, Amplified Abstraction, and Modern Stone Totems. In addition to our expedition we observed art of Mexico and New Spain that showcased 17th and 19th century paintings and sculptures. European art with includes paintings and sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. As well as, early American art from the 19th century to the mid 20th century.

The first room of the museum pulled in the audience with artwork from the 20th century. Although it may seem like artwork put together at the last minute, if you look closer, you will see something entirely different. Each piece had so much detail and unique qualities, such as style and art form, that you haven't see in many other museums before. It is important to appreciate the erratic design and character of each piece of art, but after seeing the entire museum, it is easy see the monumental difference between art now, and the art of our past. Art of the past showed a lot more

In the Robyn Autry article, it mainly focuses on the national conflict of museums mainly focusing towards African American. The author travel to 15 museums around the United States that focuses towards African American. She mainly talks about how the African American were facing numerous hardships in the U.S and how the museum represents those issues to the general public. She believes the way to tell the hardship of African Americans is by exhibiting through a museum. When traveling through these museums she focused towards “centered on three traumatic episodes: capture and displacement from Africa, enslavement, and racial segregation” (Autry 64). The author of the articles wants to show that over time that museums meanings has changed over

The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The Met, for short, can be described as a place of extraordinary value to the study of the fine arts. The Met was established in order to encourage the study, application, and practice of the fine arts. As a result, numerous professors advise their students to visit The Met. Thus, it is for this reason on the 18th of March that my brother and I traveled to the museum with the purpose to analyze artwork from the Italian Renaissance, especially those that were created in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Upon obtaining entry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was intrigued by the vast amounts of artwork present before me and immediately began bask in the beauty of the sculptures, paintings, and sarcophaguses.

In her speech “How art gives shape to cultural change” (2009) Thelma Gordon, a curator of art for Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney Museum, provides insight into how curators, art, artist and museums are catalyst for culture and change. Her speech guides viewer through her exhibitions and events in history that resulted in the rewriting of history and personal growth. She studied art and artist at a time when museums included fewer people of color and is an advocate for cross-culture dialogues, creativity, innovation, and defining culture through exhibitions. She believes in using art and the museums to change the way people think about themselves and culture and realizes the effect art has on people internationally and in a community.

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.

Sender never thought of his collection as a museum worthy exhibit until he was approached and asked if several of his pieces could be borrowed. So he built a website to arrange the lending. He never knew that his hobby of collecting would show a diverse portrait of the recent developments of art history spanning the three decades he has been collecting. He bought work that he was ardent about and the gallery of works just expanded.

and professors went there it was a nice education trip. We had explored the art in that museum. Different part of that museum is Manifesto by Julian Rosefeldt. It is monumental film installation MANIFESTO. In which total thirteen different roles and scenes are there. Actor recites manifestos of artistic manner. These manifestos are core artistic message regarding social and political issues. It is representing modern art as well. In manifesto one of video teacher said to their students “nothing is original” and another one television anchor said that “all current art is fake”. Both statements make

time to visit museums. When public art is funded by the government, the artist’s imagination is

When present in the “German vs Degenerate Art” gallery, one can notice the effort put by the artists who promote the idea of updated classical artworks in context of German political taste; and at times this effort is just so obvious that it takes away from the painting itself. For instance, Udo Wendel’s The Art of Newspaper, 1939 and Adolf Wissel’s The Sculptor August Waterbeck, 1932 are two paintings that resemble the German ideal art, and both seems to loosen from its beauty due to the immense effort placed by the artists to make it look more classical and more perfect than it already is. Both paintings depict modern day people painted in a classical style, as close to perfection as it can be done, and in both paintings there is an additional classical element as part of the composition, either a greco sculpture or an art book open on the page of roman art. This forceful repeated element of classical artworks within the already German classical painting prevents the viewer from thinking of modernity in any other way. It puts the viewer in the perspective of seeing himself as part of a perfect life, while pressures him to want to

The relationship between art and commerce has always been subject of hot discussion. Many people look at creativity as a vehicle for economic interest, while others view it as pure dedication for personal creative needs. The world as we live in today sees the creative industry, including visual and performing arts, sound recording, book publishing, and movie making, a highly commercialized global enterprise. People constantly buy and sell art products in a highly active market. Although it is difficult to conclude whether art and commerce is perfectly compatible or mutually exclusive, one thing is true, that the relationship between the two has not stayed constant throughout the history of art. From the early Renaissance period to contemporary and modern time, we see art gets intertwined with business more and more. There are multiple well known historical examples demonstrate the dynamic evolution of creative expression, though new system also brought challenges.