Bakersfield Museum History

Edward Weston came into this world on March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. As is mother died while he was still very young, his father doted upon him. He, much like Adams, did not fair well in formal schooling. His father gifted him with a box camera, a Bull’s Eye No. 2 from the Boston Camera Co. at the age of 16. (That would be 1902, the same year that Ansel Adams was born.) In 1906, he had his first submission printed in Camera & Darkroom entitled, Spring. That same year, he moved to California, working as a surveyor for a railroad company. He returned to Illinois only to attend the Illinois College of Photography, just to show his girlfriend’s father that he would be able to support himself and his daughter if they were married. He

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

Having lived in the Sacramento area for the last 10 years, last weekend was my first trip to the Crocker Art Museum. The museum was slow when we first got there around 10:00 am, but within an hour it started to pick up. I did not expect much from a museum in Sacramento, I was thinking more like gold rush memorabilia or Sutter household items. In short, I love the place. It is so much bigger and with more art than I imagined. My favorite part of the museum was the old part and not the modern side. I did not get the meaning of quite a few of the modern paintings, ok, all of them. One of the modern Art 's was just a shoe that was painted, my friend and I tried to figure out why this was considered art and all we could come up with, is that it was an expensive shoe. I don 't even know what to say about a single Apple computer box, it had to represent something expensive because it was in a glass lock box.

The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi was an experience in itself. I went to the Art Museum of South Texas on July 28th in part to do the first portion of the assignment, but also to celebrate my moms' birthday. I was impressed by the museums multiple sculptures and oil paintings. Although what caught my attention was the exposition of the entries in this years Visionaries Youth Art Contest. The exposition is an art contest for students in elementary through high school, with different themes every year. The theme for this year was about the environment of Corpus Christi.

I saw a lot of fascinating art in this center that inspired me to get in the ceramics class in college. The Torpedo Factory Art Center offers classes for adults and children to learn how work with clay and inspired them to make their own designs. They have the Enamelistis Gallery that is a cooperative of artists. Some of the artist in this gallery practice the art of true enamel. For me this art was very interesting because they use cheerful colors and place their feelings in their art work. The next galley is Fiberworks. They work with a wide range of materials and they made curious art with recycled materials like animals and people. The Scope Gallery was the last place I visited. All the artists that work in this galley experiment with spouted silhouettes in teapots and batter bowls. The colors that they use are blue, white, black, green, brown, red, and orange. Something I noticed and learned was that they mixed the bright colors with dark colors to have a better texture. For a few minutes I was watching a vase that had blue over the white color and it came out so beautiful. There was a white and a black cup with a design of a green flower. I can’t believe how they make the bowls and some of the cups came out so thin with incredible shapes. I think that they have a lot of creativity in their minds to make those designs the best

The art of photography has always surrounded my childhood, so it was not very long until I was lured into it. It was six years ago when I first took noticed my cousins’ extraordinary photographs, which sparked my interest for photography. It was then I purchased my first DSLr camera, a Nikon D5100.

This award was given to me for leading the art after school program at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Art after school is a program,for four title 1 schools from the Beaumont independent school district, fourth-graders from these selective schools come to the museum and learn the basic operation and functions of a Museum and while also having an enriched hands I bought experience utilizing materials that is not available to them at their schools. These kids out the meringue their parents back to the museum because of their

The website states that it's the largest presentation of the artist's cut-outs ever convened and think it would be fascinating to witness that. The Painting Sculpture exhibits, I and II, appear to be compelling collections that I would also want to visit. They both show a multitude of artists we discussed in this course and their works. For example, MOMA features Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, Auguste Rodin, Robert Rauschenberg, and Franz Kline. They also feature a few of my favorite artists from the modern art period, such as Joseph Beuys. A specific work of art I would love to view would be Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" because I consider myself a fan of Claude Monet and his "Water Lilies" is one of his most distinguished works of

On July 18, 2016, I went to the Monte L. Bean Museum, located in Provo, Utah. I was a little hesitant at the idea of this science museum. It is basically a taxidermy museum, which sounds very odd. Nevertheless, I went, and was amazed at the displays that were shown.

In response to this purely technical point of view, photographers approached photography as an art by posing subjects in fantastic positions. Children became a favorite subject of Victorian photographers due to their innocence. “Children were highly popular subjects for Victorian artists, who tended to conceive of them as natural, spiritualized beings whose innocence was untouched by the experience of original sin” (Cox 373). This innocence was intertwined with the prevailing emphasis on Christianity of the era. Children were “sacred” in the eyes of adults, and characterized as “paradigms of angelic beauty and virtue,” and most photographers desired to maintain that objective of innocence and heavenliness through their work (373). As attitudes and technology progressed, the development of photography satisfied the need for a more instantaneous art form; the subject matter and poses used in traditional Victorian painting carried over into the new art.

Upon reflection for these exhibits, they all left their own mark on me and I was certainly blown away with some of the art works. In the Emily Carr exhibit there were multiple artists that had their own style and each was unique. My personal favorites in that gallery where;

On Thursday November sixteenth the experiencing humanities class took a trip to the Joslyn Art Museum here in Omaha. We took a little over an hour to walk around the museum and check out all of the art work. There were many different displays. Everything from sculptures to paintings and woodwork to needlework. I have only been to the Joslyn one other time in my life and that was during my fifth grade year of middle school. Our art teacher took our whole class to the museum for a field trip. I remembered seeing some of the artwork in fifth grade, but this time I payed much more attention to the individual pieces. The museum was much more interesting this time than I remember it being the last time I went. On this

There was a controversy in terms of photography being considered a form of art. Its versatility deriving into diverse areas such as scientific photography and commercial one makes it hard to be considered a medium of its own artistically. Nowadays, photographs are commonly accepted as an art form being exhibited in museums and galleries. However, it wasn't a breeze originally. The time photography first came into public eyes, there were a lot of doubts cast on photographers about whether or not they could be considered as artists.

The gallery that I attended was the 39th Annual Fall Juried Art Exhibition and as explained in the gallery its purpose is to serve local artists and allow them opportunities to show their work. This gallery was put on by the Midland Arts Association as well as Midland College and took place in the McCormick Art Gallery found in the Alison Fine Arts Building. The artists whose pieces could be found in the exhibit are local artists who range from professionals to students.