After the webpage loaded, I was taken by surprise of how simple the Museum of Modern Art's website is displayed. The layout is dominantly composed of black and white colors with orange as a highlight color. The website has a slideshow promoting the museum's most recent news and newest exhibitions. One of these exhibitions is the "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs" collection. This is "the largest and most extensive presentation of the artist's cut-outs ever assembled." When I read this, I found it particularly impressive. An additional slide advertised the Museum's store and their membership program. I have visited the Nelson-Atkins Museum's website before and by comparing the Nelson's website with the MOMA's, I've observed an abundance of similarities.. …show more content…
These include "Analog Network: Mail Art, 1960-1999" which is a collection of mail art that emerged in the early 1960's from Conceptual art practices and "MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out" that is presented in conjuction with the exhibition "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs." Other exhibitions are "Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor", "Sturtevant: Double Trouble", "Cut to Swipe", "100 Years in Post-Production: Resurrecting a Lost Landmark of Black Film History", "Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities", "Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years of the Brown Sisters", and "Bill Morrison: Re-Compositions." Drawing from the MOMA's collection, "Making Music Modern" gathers designs for auditoriums, instruments, and equipment for listening to music, along with sheet music, record sleeves, animation, and posters. This exhibition examines various types of music. "The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters" is an exhibit that explores five subjects that together create a portrait of artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris. Other current displays are "A Collection of Ideas" which focuses on works designed during the last few decades that introduce new categories of investigation and new design forms and "Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground" that draws on MOMA's collection of illustrated books, drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures by …show more content…
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
In preparation for my first visit to the Denver Art Museum I browsed their numerous extravagant collections online. I was taken back by the wide range of skilled artwork as well as impressed. I spent hours completely entranced by the artwork. When I was done viewing the gallery virtually I questioned whether or not I should even still visit the actual museum. I felt that I had just had the same experience only free and from the comfort of my couch. Fortunately, my sister convinced me into going with her and I have not regretted it since! Viewing artwork in person is far more beneficial than viewing it from a virtual gallery.
During our visit to the El Paso Museum of Art, our docent (insert name) took us on a tour of their current exhibitions: Robert Delaunay and Albert Gleizes: The School of Paris from Modern Master Series: Highlights from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Immaculate Conception, Amplified Abstraction, and Modern Stone Totems. In addition to our expedition we observed art of Mexico and New Spain that showcased 17th and 19th century paintings and sculptures. European art with includes paintings and sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. As well as, early American art from the 19th century to the mid 20th century.
The first room of the museum pulled in the audience with artwork from the 20th century. Although it may seem like artwork put together at the last minute, if you look closer, you will see something entirely different. Each piece had so much detail and unique qualities, such as style and art form, that you haven't see in many other museums before. It is important to appreciate the erratic design and character of each piece of art, but after seeing the entire museum, it is easy see the monumental difference between art now, and the art of our past. Art of the past showed a lot more
Number Eight: Museum of Modern Art.Down in the streets of Midtown Manhattan, the MoMA is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world, and it has been important in developing and collecting modernist art.
Another aspect that I found to be very interesting was the way in which each of the museums offered different multimedia formats to facilitate the visitor’s experience with the artwork in display. I noticed that both museums offered applications for smartphones and tablets, free of charge, to assist the visitors with getting the most possible out of the museum. Visiting a museum can be a very distracting task because there is so much to see and without a plan or a navigating system that helps you make your way towards the museum, it can be hard to gain something from your visit. Both apps are accessible to most people and very easy to navigate through. These apps included audio guides, exhibition information, calendars, events and so on. However, I noticed
One of my favorite pieces from the visit was a huge 10 x 9 ft. map that surrounded a middle age woman's face. The artist Frieder Schnock used stippling to create the entire piece, which resonated with me from the previous project we
The art exhibit I plan on attending is the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Gibbes is one of Charleston most historic museums and house and displays not only modern art but many pieces of art that show the show history of Charleston. Gibbes opened in 1905. I chose Gibbes Museum of art because of its location and the rich history of Charleston that influences the art reflection the culture that Charleston has been for the last 112 years. The museum not only displays many local pieces of art and sculptures, it also has on display art from around the world. Currently the museum has many visiting artists but also has a permanent collection that is on display. Of the permanent collections, the most interesting to me is the 18th and 19th Century
The Polk Museum of Art is a fairly small but unique collection of galleries near downtown Lakeland. It has several permanent exhibitions containing over 2,500 works of art (“Mission and History”) and also features new collections and works of art that it rotates out. PolkMuseumofArt.org explains which exhibitions are currently displayed and is updated to include upcoming events, descriptions of collections, and artists’ bios and statements on their works, as well as classes, camps, and speakers that will be held or featured at the museum (“Upcoming Events”). The website is an extremely useful tool to learn about the art that can be found at the local attraction, and it lends insight for visitors who want to know background
Over the thanksgiving break I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met is an art museum in New York City that has a variety of ancient artwork from different cultures and time periods. There is paintings and sculptures from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome and Greece. The museum is additionally home to artwork from many different time periods including ancient Near Eastern Art, Middle Ages and Europe during the Renaissance. The Met also has artwork from many different religions such as Christianity and Islam. Each section in the museum had a specific artwork that attracted my attention.
Many scholars criticize Neiman’s work because of his splashy, kinetic, and jigsaw-like style however; these critics have failed to fully evaluate Neiman’s work. Neiman is known for capturing many split second moments such as many of Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches and other Olympic events. Receiving much scorn, Neiman’s works are often dismissed for superficiality and garish among the art world. The common misconceptions have failed to acknowledge the discrete hints that reflect the development of African Americans. Leroy Neiman's paintings capture juxtaposition between frustration and aspiration through dramatic brush strokes, contrasting portrayals of community development, and metaphorical placements symbolizing the possibility of opportunity
I visited the Bakersfield Museum of Art this weekend and it was a great experience. The museum had different exhibits. Each exhibit had its own significance and had beautiful artwork. The first exhibit I visited was in the Chevron Gallery. This gallery was filled with oil paintings of landscapes, still life, and abstract paintings. The best thing about this exhibit was how it was prepared by the summer art camp program called “A Fresh Look”. The summer art program is where a group of children, ages 7 to 12, study major elements of art and the process of putting together an exhibition. Once they have become familiar with the art elements and exhibition construction, they choose a
In the 1920’s Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., created The Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Its founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wanted the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with “the greatest museum of modern art in the world.”MoMA also owns about two million film stills. The Museum has a collection of modern and contemporary art exhibitions with a wide range of subject matter, mediums, and time periods, highlighting significant recent developments in the visual arts and new interpretations of major artists and art historical movements.The Museum is dedicated to its role as an educational institution and provides a program of activities set out to help both the general public and special segments of the community in approaching and understanding the world of modern and contemporary art. Today, The Museum of Modern Art welcome millions of visitors every year.
Judy Chicago’s feminist artistic career ironically began with minimalist styled art. Minimalist art is defined by the Tate (a highly respected institution in London that runs 4 separate museums) as “an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle”. Its essence is best condensed by artist Frank Stella when he describes his minimalist paintings as “What you see is what you see”. Judy Chicago was trained as a minimalist artist and she explains in a lecture she gave at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, California that “during the first decade of my career I experienced two forms of censorship the first was self-censorship
My first impression of the museum was that I thought the design of the building was nice and before I knew anything more about the museum I knew that it was a contemporary art museum from the architecture. Once inside we weren’t sure where we should go first, some people went into the gift shop and some followed other people up the escalator to the third floor where the majority of their artworks were displayed. There were some pieces that I very much liked and others that I thought were just expensive and made to show off. But my overall impression of the museum was good. About two months later I went to the art exhibit at USD. This exhibit was much smaller but very well done. I liked how everything was arranged. I thought the art works complemented each
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is the world’s leading modern art. Its exhibits have been a major influence in creating and stimulating popular awareness of modern art and its accompanying diversity of its styles and movements. The museum’s outstanding collections of modern painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints range from Impressionisms to current movements. Moreover, there are exhibits of modern architecture, industrial design, sculpture, photography, prints and electronic media. The museum presently has a modern art library of 300,000 books and impressive collections of films that are shown regularly. The Museum is said to be the complementary of the Metropolitan Museum