Des Moines Art Center

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,

Education is important as we develop a society of lifelong learners, but budget cuts for schools should not be at the expense of art programs. All students have unique learning styles and ways they best absorb information. To compromise that process is destructive to the success of their overall learning experience. “The Sanctuary of School” makes the reader aware of the many individuals who go through the public-school system. Barry’s essay advocates the need for funding of art programs and the supportive, creative outlets they

The Carnegie Museum of Art was a museum created to focus on the art of tomorrow rather than already popular art and artists of today. A necessary part for that dream of Andrew Carnegie to become a reality is having a place to house these art pieces. While of course he could have just found an empty warehouse and placed all the art there that would neither have given the pieces of art justice nor would anyone want there personal collection to be placed on display there. Instead, in order to have a successful art museum you have to house the art in a place that does it justice. Museums heavily rely on their architecture to accurately portray and supplement the showpieces within the museum. Carnegie’s art museum

Have you ever been to Iowa State University and seen all of the magnificent art that is located on campus? Iowa State is home to one of the largest campus public art collections in the United States. There are over 2,000 works of public art (George Washington Carver). The foundation of the contemporary Art on Campus Collection and Program began during the Depression in the 1930s, when Iowa State's President Hughes envisioned that, "The arts would

The main building of the Art Institute is constructed mostly of masonry, with few windows, and feels very heavy and overpowering. Grand staircases and large columns dwarf visitors as they move through the galleries. This is similar to the way the art in the space makes you feel: small, unimportant, and sometimes even afraid. The Modern wing in constructed of steel and glass, and is very open and bright (except when intended not to be). The large north wall facing Millenium Park is one large expanse of windows, letting in plenty of indirect sunlight, and opening the gallery to the park. The space feels very light, in both senses of the word. As with the old building, the art feels similar to the space in that it is more open and less opressive.

For my enrichment report, I decided to take a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum. However, I was trapped with the challenging choice of choosing only one museum for my cultural visit. Since, there are so many prodigious and amazing museums to choose from to visit in the county. But, I have heard many great feedbacks about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from fellow classes mates, friends and family. So, I finally, had my destination set to and planned a visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Upon my visit my attention was already fixated on the unique building layout and the many arts exhibited located all around the outside of the museum building. There were several building that housed the many different art exhibits. Such as the first building I walked into, after purchasing a ticket. This building was called the “Ahmanson” building, which housed voluminous and diverse art of the European, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian Art, Art of the Ancient World, Art of the Pacific and Others. There were also many special exhibitions that was hosted at the time of my visit, such as the modern art gallery and Rifkin Gallery for German Expressionism. One of the sculpture centered in the middle of the building of the “Ahmanson” building called “Smoke” really caught my attention. As it quite an enigmatic and stunning metal sculpture that mesmerizes illusions based on your interpretation and perspective of the piece.

The building has an innovative structure, as it was one of the first buildings to use a technique of pouring concrete in stages. This was, unfortunately, discovered when the building was 20 stories high. Though, the building is 100 stories high, so it helped the

The name of the museum I visit was the Lowe Art Museum in the University of Miami, I really loved the visit I enjoy it and I learn about so many cultures and different arts that amaze me of how they were so creative and passionate. The work that I select because it called my attention since I got to the place it make me change my direction and to go there because of that brilliant blue and fantastic size that had so much beauty in it. Breathing Glass by Sandy Skoglund she was born on September 11, 1946 in Quincy Massachusetts; she attended Smith College, where she studied studio art and art history from 1964 to 1965. When I stand up in front of that giant art I start visualizing and try to see her idea in my mind without really knowing anything about her. When I saw it I didn’t even see the tiny men in the bottom, where the head of the three figures that their body where like humans. The first thing I saw where the beautiful crystalize dragonflies in the back they were so many and with the same size. The human figure had different size for my interpretation was like a woman, a children and a man. That feeling that the work aroused in me was of freedom because when you

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has just revealed it's newest exhibit, The Mi Tierra. Dubbed one of the most important contemporary art exhibits produced at DAM in years, Mi Tierra features pieces by emerging and mid-career Latino artists such as, Carmen Argote, Jaime Carrejo, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Ramiro Gomez and Ruben Ochoa.

One building, in particular, that stood out to me was the Lincoln Memorial. The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument which was constructed in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. It was dedicated in the year 1922 and is located in Washington, D.C. and it is one of various monuments that have been built to recognize an American President (“Lincoln Memorial”, 2017). It is known to have been built in the “form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" and his Second Inaugural Address” (“Lincoln Memorial”, 2017). This explains why there are such glaring similarities between the

With exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is one of the Nation’s largest facilities devoted to the art of our time (“About the MCA”) . The mission of the MCA is to offer a direct experience to the public of modern day art and living artists. German architect Joseph Paul Kleihues designed the new building with seven times the square feet of its previous facility (“The Building”) . October of 1967 the museum opened its doors to the public for the first time. The Museum of Contemporary Art is a symbol of modern art, culture, and the artist of our time. It is a stepping stone in history and will leave footprints in the heart of Chicago for many generations to come.

In present day at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, there is seldom a time without construction being in process. Money appears to be flowing and buildings rising left and right. It is a flourishing campus, and a time of great growth for the state’s flagship campus. One thing constant throughout it all is one of the campus’s most visible structures, which is located at the entrance to campus. This is the Fine Arts Center, begun in 1972 and completed in 1974 under supervision and design of architect Kevin Roche. Kevin Roche is an architect well known for his various creations, such as the Ford Foundation Headquarters

The Des Moines art center is an museum with an ex-tensive collection of paintings, sculptures, and modern art. The museum was designed by three different architectures which were Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, And Richard Meier, The architect of the original museum wing was designed in a combination of art Nouveau and art Deco by Eliel Saarinen, The second wing was designed in a modernist style by I.M. Pei, and the third wing was designed by Richard Meier the wing was designed to allow an abundant amount of natural light. In www.dcaiga.blogspot.com it states “Meier uses light as a means to very successfully make the transition and the exterior seems to echo that interior light. Actually, the interior as well as the exterior light effects suggest a church-like emotive quality” This quote proves how natural light is the most fundamental element to most of his works, light can be used in a vigorous amount of ways it for example Meier believed the color white is always transformed because of light. Light also gives off a feeling of emotion they compared Richard Meier’s part of the museum to effects of a church like emotive showing how the use of light can give off the same warmth/loving feel-ing the Jubilee Church gives off. His obsessions with light lead him to develop traditional to har-vest light in different amount of

“How do you make a building for contemporary art that stays contemporary in the future without stooping to a neutral language? And how do you attract a big public without compromising the selfish, private, exclusive time we all want to have in a museum?” These questions, put forward by Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, represent the urbanistic motivation supporting the construction of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). In such a manner Boston’s ICA engages, not only with the urban citizen, but also the urban landscape in which the site is located. The ICA conveys the idea of architecture as art in itself. As a presenter of art to the urban citizen and because of its open design, the inside allows the citizens to not only appreciate the art within the building but also see the art of the building’s natural environment and setting.

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.