Museum Critique
For my critique essay, I chose the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) which was exceptionally close to home. It is located at the corner of 2nd Street and Sycamore Street right in the heart of downtown Santa Ana.
My first impressions as I pulled up into the museum’s parking lot was that it was the very small place, it looked like a store that sold art pieces. As I walked inside I noticed that it was a bigger than I thought. The gallery has 3 big open space rooms filled with dozens of pieces of art. As I you walk inside you will find the Atrium where the retail gallery is located, as you go inside there is the Grand gallery which is the biggest room and at the end, it is the project gallery.
I visited the center
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The first one was Lauri Hassold. She presented a sculpture called “Becoming the Forest”. The best way to describe it is to imagine a half deer and half tree or maybe a deer jumping out of some dried up tree branches. What I have noticed from other sculptures from Laurie Hassold in the gallery was that she has a way of combining and integrating nature, animals with some sort of mystical darkness to create works of art that seem to send the message that the earth, nature, and animals all are one entity whether it be in this lifetime or the next. I believe Lauri Hassold is trying to express through her work is that when an animal dies, it becomes one with nature, for example, when an animal dies in the forest it becomes one with it, when it dies it starts to deteriorate until it becomes soil and then new life is born from that soil starting a new cycle of …show more content…
According to a note next to one of his paintings, Jeff Gillette saw real third world poverty when he visited India in 1983. Gillette wanted to capture that aesthetically changed imagery and make art from his experience while also integrating accessories of our first world culture. He often uses characters from “Disney: the happiest place on earth” to counter the realism of the rest of the world. Jeff had about eight to ten of his sculptures around the gallery, which were called “mixed media”. His sculptures were made up of wood and they pretty much resembled a shack or an old worn out tin house, similar to houses that you would see in places around the world with the most poverty. The wooden huts kind of reminded me of a very old wooden shack that you would see in a swamp if you were in the ugliest part of Louisiana, the huts were worn down, but he was sure to integrate some form of happiness into his sculptures. Every hut had the same landscape but a different form of happiness. Some of the different characters that he had integrated with the sculptures were Mickey mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Tweedy, and Silvester. What I believe that Jeff was trying to present through his works of art was that every one that has the privilege to live in an amazing country like the United States of America should also stop to think that not everywhere is the same.
To highlight the relationship between each of the exhibitions, the staff could provide daily visitors with a cohesive guide map of the entire museum. The current location of the museum is massive to accommodate for the displays as well as three research laboratories, but due to large size, each exhibit feels isolated and
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Positioned alongside Central Park in the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museum, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a certain set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within the museum. Brent Plate in Religion, Art, and Visual Culture argues that “objects obtain different meanings in different locations and historical settings.”An object placed on display behind a glass case inside a museum would hold a vastly different meaning if it was put on sale by a street vendor, like the ones who set up their tables in close proximity to the Met. The different meanings that objects are able to obtain is attributed to the relationships that are established between the object itself and the environment that surrounds it. These relationships often involve the kind of audience that a museum attracts, where the work is exhibited, and how the exhibits within a museum is planned out. Museums subsequently have the ability to control how these relationships are established which influences the way a viewer is able to construct meaning. When a visitor observes an object on display at the Met, they instinctively construct a certain set of
The de Young museum seen from a distance is a bold architectural statement, with its sleek horizontal building, indeterminate dark brown color and its massive tower emerging from its slightly bent curving roof. The building is an example of boldness, internationalism and cultural neutrality. Its setting in the Golden Gate Park’s landscape with the topography, vegetation; weather and light are taken advantage of. The significance of nature and the art that is housed in the museum from the Americas, Oceania, and Africa can be seen as having resonance in the architecture. Many of the works of art are sacred in their cultures, are made of natural materials and were never intended to be displayed in formal settings. Post modern theme of ‘context’ comes into expression as Jacques Herzog put it: “These objects belong to nature. We wanted to emphasize that”.
If I was to be told the phrase, inequality is making us Americans sick, I would consider it as people who create unequal opportunities due to people being different are mentally sick. While that is a valid topic, the documentary Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth brings to light a staggering statistic, that illness, in general, is largely due to the less obvious effects of segregated class systems that exist all over the nation.
It resides in The Caroline Wiess Law Building. I will be comparing and contrasting these two pieces of artwork
Next, each room of art were unique. When I get into each room, some things that surprise me that each room was very exclusive, original and uncommon. Also, the rooms were very enlightened and I personally felt that each room had something for everyone in the family. Another thing that I noted of the museum was the accessibility of each floor, so anybody can go and have a great time without
I went to Lincoln Land Community College’s gallery. The name of the show was “Sarah Smelser: Questions we ask each other.” Sarah Smelser was the only artist at Lincoln Land Community College’s gallery on March 16th. My initial reaction to the set of the show was that it is very simple and modern. Sarah’s work engaged me when I walked in the door, because I instantly wanted to see what kind of art was on the display walls. There was only art hanging on the walls; nothing was out on the floor for display. When I went there were only a few people there. I did not feel over-whelmed when I walked into the gallery room, because it was not cluttered.
The museum is arranged on two floors, organized by subject and date. There are many permanent exhibitions of American, African, Asian, European, Islamic, Contemporary
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.
When I came to the museum, the first thing that impressed me was the astonishing building: it was a masterpiece itself. The exterior of the Tampa Museum of Art has a light installation, and all I wanted at that moment is night to come so I could see thousands of colored lights reflected in the surface of the river that flows near the museum. What’s more, I liked the design of the museum inside as well. There were white walls and perfect lighting, and nothing would bother contemplation. In many museums I have visited before there was a lot of distractions, but in this museum everything was done on the principle of simplicity, and that was very pleasing to me. Moreover, when we came inside of the museum, it was almost empty. There were just a few visitors, who were fascinated by various drawings and statues. Most of the visitors were teenagers, what slightly surprised me. I
Positioned alongside Central Park within the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museums, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within a museum. By analyzing two separate works on exhibit at the Met, I will pose the argument that museums offer a unique expression of a world view that is dictated through every element of its construction.
The first artist in the exposition is Hannah Alpha. Born in Egypt, she’s a McGill alumni who uses the minimalism style of painting, which is the art of using simplistic design to create maximum impact. The paintings grab your attention due to their abstractness. However they fail to portray the artist’s meaning. Her collection, called “La danse cosmique” (The cosmic dance), is her search to “attain a state of supreme
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.
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