Comer Museum

The Woodlands Man Shirt is a garment made by the Native Americans from the great lakes region in the 18th century. This piece was traded to early French explorers in New France which extended from Louisiana to Canada. This shirt was worn by high status Native Americans made from antelope which has some form of early tattoo work done to it. The interlocking designed tattoos represent the sacred Thunderbird who is an important traditional being to Indian spirituality. Some principles of design used in this piece are rhythm and symmetrical balance and some elements of design to note are shape, visual and actual texture, and pattern. I chose these principles to analysis this piece because they are the ones that apply the most to this sculpture and can help to apply context. This also shirt has elements from Woodlands, Great Lakes, and Plains regions, and the complex designs may have been inspired by tattooing. The materials used in this shirt are both functional and ceremonial to the Native Americans but more specifically the Dakota tribe. This shirt is unique because it is only one of 35 remaining from the early 1700s making this piece really rare and hard to compare to because of how few there are available.

Modern figurines of art stem directly from the hands of the ancient’s. The organic forms of modernly sculpted artifacts can most likely be directly referenced to the movements of prehistoric artworks. There seems to be an ongoing transition on how cultures no matter how stretched apart through time, contrasted by ethnicity or religious views; can all be somewhat related to each other by the methods or principles portrayed through their artworks. In fact, I saw that very transition; within two works in which are extremely different in meaning, craftsmanship, time, culture and so on. However, I was still able to find similarities within the artifacts. In this paper I will examine Venus of Willendorf, a Paleolithic carving in limestone; which can fit in the palm of one’s hand. As well as, The Sacrifice of Chacmool, which are a plethora of Mesoamerican statues emulating rituals of sacrifice.

Social histories “focus on everyday life experiences of various groups in the past” (Martin & Nakayama, 2012). When looking at the left side of the sculpture, a glimpse of what Native Americans needed to do to remain sustainable is depicted through the tools they had to craft themselves in order to gather food and resources. This suggests that their normal day of life was to gather resources in order to make it through the day. In contrast, the right side depicts the growth of architecture and commerce. For example, the dollar sign that sits upon the farther left building is suggestive of the capitalistic ideals of modern day America. This is

Looking at the sculpture carefully I did not observe many shapes, but I did see specific lines which were meant to emphasize smoothness and beauty. For example,

The piece of art that I’ve decided to do this research paper on is a ceremonial Inca Vase with Jaguar Handles. It is a popular vase within Inca ceramics. The Inca were a group of indigenous people who were possibly the world’s largest empire located in modern day Peru. They used a variety of craftsmanship, the most popular being the polychrome technique which portrayed a number of animals, waves, birds, and felines (Hood, 2017). These images were carried on throughout the Chavin culture and geometric patterns were found in Nazca ceramics (Hood, 2017).

The J. Paul Getty Museum is located on the West side of Los Angeles and is opened all week with free admission except on Mondays which is closed completely. The Getty is divided into two campuses, the Getty Center and Getty Villa. Although both campuses serve as a major role for the Getty Museum, the Center is what is commonly referred to as the museum. The museum sits at the top of a hill that takes 15-20 minutes to hike. However, a tram is available to haul visitors from the parking lot up to the building which is roughly ¾ of a mile. However, the hill does not stop guest from coming. Nearly 1.8 million visitors come and view the Getty Museum annually.

The use of the oil paint falls from broad and gestural to refined and purposeful. Over all the painting style is semi-loose to retain essential information within the painting. The worm colors bring a comforting feel to the piece of thoughtful solitude and prayer. Although this painting depicts what life may have been to Indigenous people in the 19th century, the artist shows his lack of understanding of the culture. Respect is one of the core values to many planes people and respect goes further than the relationship between people but all things in life such as birds and stone and plants. They all have a sprit that is considered a relative. The problematic aspects of this painting are how sacred items are leisurely treated as objects. The three most noteworthy items are the cha’nupa, cansiga, and waph’a’ha. First, the cha’nupa should be propped up or held and not let be lying on the ground and put together. Second, the cansiga should also be propped up and face up at all times. Finally, an eagle feather or waph’a’ha should never touch the ground. These are things that can be damaging to our own understanding of history, Indigenous culture and spirituality. Although this is just one painting a person without the cultural knowledge could see this and believe that the treatment is tolerable since this is a paining from the past and insightful artist. This paining wile well

At the California Center of the Arts I learned a lot about many artists and their many works of art. Throughout the Heated exchange exhibit of Contemporary Encaustics, Jan Jaylo: All these answers that may never come out and Living with the muertos: A Dia de los Muertos Experience by Daniel F. Martinez I learned many interesting facts that change the way I view art work.

This semester I attended the Art Institute for the first time. At first, I did not know what to expect, so I was not really exited to attend the Art Institute. When I arrive to the Art Institute as soon as I walked in everything changed. All of the sudden a big smile appeared on my face. Walking around the Art Institute and looking at the different types of exhibits made me realize that this place is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. The Art Institute has a variety of art exhibits from European culture to Asian culture, as well as Greek culture. As my friend and I were walking around the Art Institute we decided to enter the Modern Wing area, were they were having a Charles Ray exhibition. The art piece that stood out to me the most

The landscape and gestures are symmetrical and balanced such as their feet, hands, and facial expressions are all equally proportioned. Throughout this composition there are geometrical shapes which are recognizable such as circles, ovals, and rectangles which are all natural forms. The utilities used to create this work of art have more benefits than drawbacks. Canvases and oil paints are easier to depict mythical and heroic figures effectively because the paint can be applied thick which makes blending of colours easier to achieve. The linseed or walnut oil dries very slowly thus making it simple to revise the image. In addition, canvases are light and retain a glossy surface. The only challenge is to keep the brush strokes to a minimum, but the trace of an artist’s brush stroke like the one in this painting accentuated movement and naturalism.

I chose a piece titled Camisa Bicicleta, which was created in Argentine by an artist named Mart. This artwork is an obvious choice for its distinctive sketch-like lines. With just an ink pen and paper, this piece was composed by a collage of lines detailed with many different sized objects that help form the drawing as a whole. The background of the drawing is very simple. The moon was drawn by two, thin curved lines, and the stars drawn by a diagonal line with short lines through the middle creating an ex representing the stars. The background is split between, what is assumed to be land and sky, by a long, thick rigid line. Below the thick rigid line, the representation of land is made by mark making. Mart used repetitive lines to build texture

For our PEX Project, we visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. This museum is the oldest art museum in Philadelphia and is full of beautiful sculptures, paintings, and everything in between. It was very interesting to take the time to observe the employees’ approach to relay the stories, history, and meanings of the artwork to us in both an interesting and impactful way.

While visiting the exhibit there were a few major things that I really enjoyed. The most memorable one was the lack of distractions. It was around 1:30 when I made it into

Just a few months earlier, my family had traveled to Chicago to drop off my older sister to college. We seized the opportunity and made it a vacation and a college visit to look at an art school I was interested in. The city was crammed with art, tremendously inspiring me. All sorts of diverse art filled the streets

On Sunday, February 7, I went to the Sam Nobel Art Museum for the first time with one of my friends, and we were both surprised at how much we enjoyed our time there. Its not that we went in expecting not to have a good experience we just expected it to be “ok”. We walked in confused at where to go, we wondered for a few minuets before going through the second set of doors leading us into the main exhibits. Our first visit was to the dinosaurs followed by the native American art exhibit.