Museum Of Fine Arts Auden Meaning

Auden’s poem is a criticism of human perceptions and how we use them to detect, or suppress human suffering. In the first half of the poem Auden “compares versions of indifference by portraying youth and age, animals, and humans” (Shmoop, 2014). In the first few lines of the poem, Auden comments on the perceptions of the “Old Masters” and how they were never wrong in their discernment of suffering. He then compares the old masters perceptions to the perceptions of children and animals and how they are unaware of,

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.

W. H. Auden's poem however is quite different. "Musee des Beaux Arts" is written in free verse, meaning that the poem is essentially "free" of meter, regular rhythm, or a rhyme scheme. Like the specific structural considerations of the sonnet form, the seeming lack of structure which free verse offers is purposely employed and works to illuminate the poem's meaning. In Auden's poem, the long irregular lines, subtly enforced by the irregular end rhyme pattern, create a casual, conversational air more prosaic than poetic, and a somewhat nonchalant tone which is reflective of the compassionate world illustrated in Brueghel's art. For example, in Auden's poem there is a subtle rhyme scheme that is throughout the poem. The poem's first line rhymes with the fourth but the fifth rhymes with the seventh. So although there is a rhyme scheme it is a non-traditional. This concept imitates the painting in the way that when looking at the painting you know that Icarus is drowning somewhere, but you do not see him until you really start concentrating on the images painted on the canvas. The casual, easy-going argument the tone suggests is ironic for the

As we know, the result of “Art is” is “Art is” which returned in an ephemeral form at the Studio Museum. All forty photographs are on display on the basement level of the galleries, which are supposedly reserved for pieces in their permanent collection. The room just outside, whether coincidentally or not, is filled with photos of students - reflecting personal memories. How the museum decides to play with this, is by missing them with old-timer photos of Harlem from the

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

Like many other sonnets, " Musee des Beaux Arts" is divided into two parts. In general, the first lines of the poem explore the depth of humanities indifference to one another. Auden makes allusion to the old master painters of the museum of fine art, who were never wrong about suffering. The "old masters" understood that people often turned a blind eye to one another's suffering. The Old Masters were artists of the 18th century whose works, masterpieces of the Renaissance, also are called old masters. They often painted classical scenes of pagan Greece and Rome as well as scenes of life and death, like the Fall of Icarus.

The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time, Italian, Spanish, and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea of what the paintings were like in these four centuries and reflected ideas of both the east and the west.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today.

Smith’s poem takes the reader to a time in her memory. Smith is describing the idea that are is made not encountered. Throughout the poem Smith is referring to a image of a man lying on the ground. He is surrounded by blue and red accents of color. In Smith’s poem, she refers to the man lying on the ground as a roman candle. He was nothing more than a dim light in a dark room. This shows that Smith’s tone is condescending at the begging of the poem. She displays little to know admiration for the photo in front of her. Then Smith describes the process of making art as rezoning and reacting. Although she’s c criticizing the work of someone else her ideas are true. The purpose of art is to instill a reaction from an observer or a reader. In a

Jan van Eyck was active since 1422 and died in 1441. He was the most celebrated painter of the fifteen-century in Europe. One of his famous works is “The Last Judgment”. At first sight this work immediately attracted my attention. The painting’s stunning colors and the fact that it reminded me of a previous similar work I have seen, triggered in my mind. The material that is used is oil on canvas, transferred from wood. The size of this work is 22 1/4 *7 2/3 in. (56.5 * 19.7cm).

A group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold, breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum, its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant, beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big, brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum, it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season.

In one of these poems, “Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau,” Blunden describes recalls a quote from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats while ostensibly looking over a plane of flowers (POTTER 180). Blunden that describes that he and his fellow soldiers are “coming to the sacrifice,” and questions whether if those “who live with death and lice” may have flowers (Blunden 208). The contrast between Blunden’s beautiful description of the “floweriest place That earth allows” and the macabre concept of decay and parasitic insects creates a sense of dissonance. Those two images do not belong together, and most would not think to place them together either. However, Blunden, with all of the emotional and mental trauma that he has been put through, groups the two separate concepts together anyways to show that for a soldier, the appreciation of life and the fear of death are intertwined. The decision to have contrasting language is indicative of his form of irony when writing verse. The contradictions throughout the poem “may signal something that acts on his imagination” (POTTER 181). For Blunden, peace is not often found within his own mind, and when it is found, it does not last for long.

Auden in this poem compares human beings to stars. This comparison can be criticised as being very unfair as stars are both literally and metaphorically above humans. This is evident upon reading “…That for all they care, I can go to hell.” The fact that he used objects of such importance allows readers to appreciate

W.H. Auden’s intricate elegy “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” subtly honors W.B. Yeats, one of the most famous poets of all time and a giant of 20th century English literature. Auden doesn’t waste his time romanticizing Yeats or his work, and his honest approach in separating the poems from the man makes “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” a fittingly remarkable memorial for a celebrated author. Though it partially acts as a criticism of Yeats, Auden’s poem is ultimately a defense of why poetry, Yeats included, is significant for humanity.

He invites us into a tour of the “Musée des Beaux Arts”, in order for the reader to understand the “Old Masters’ point of view which is displayed in the paintings. The pronouns ‘its” and “it”(line 3) refer to the word suffering. Then, the following verses are meant to contrast with the suffering people experience. Those verses are descriptions of what is happening while other people are experiencing suffering. Unlike what we can imagine, the people described are not themselves in pain, they are just occupied with their everyday activities: “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking /dully along”(lines 4 to 5). Also, even a “miraculous birth”(line 7) does not keep people from being self-centered. In the first stanza, the author wants to insist on the fact that meaningful events are occurring, but people are not paying attention to what surrounds them. They just focus on their matter. In the second stanza, Auden names the work of art on which he is making the commentary: Brueghel’s Icarus. Brueghel painted Icarus in such a way that the part of the painting that is relevant to the title of the painting remains discrete. A disaster is occurring. Indeed, Icarus has fallen from the sky, and is now drowning. We can see his legs outside the water. Still, no one seems to care. The ship “that must have seen”(line 21) Icarus’ legs “sailed calmly on”. Auden here personifies the ship. This