Kimbell Art Museum

My Humanities Art Experience took place at the Columbus, GA Museum, located on Wynnton Road. I really enjoyed my experience at the museum. It was my first time visiting an American museum. I saw many pieces of fine art, some of which I will list below.

The artwork is one of the main ways to express the culture of a region or a country. Therefore, art has played a very important role throughout history. When talking about art, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is probably that art is a painting or it is a sculpture. However, art has many forms of expression, and it closely connects to human’s daily life. Besides paintings and sculptures, art is everywhere around us. I am always interested in how people have linked art with daily life throughout history. For this reason, the two pieces of artwork I chose from my visit to the Museum of Fine Arts are both objects that can be used in everyday life: one is the mixing bowl and the other is an incense burner. Though they are from different cultures, have different making processes, and have a different purpose in usage, they both are good examples to show how artists tried to apply art using different techniques to human’s daily life.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum located in the Florida International University (FIU) campus is a major cultural institution and has been opened since 1977. The building has three floors and several galleries to display numerous art works. In the first floor there is a gallery exclusively for kids. Here you can find all sorts of art stations to have kids develop and explore their creative and artistic side. The second floor is dedicated to the traveling exhibits; during the visit of this paper the museum had two traveling/special exhibits in display. One of the exhibits was by the Cuban artist Carlos Luna, Green Machine and the other by a traveling photographer Richard Saxton, Creole World. In the third floor of the museum there

In the museum I visit they didn’t have a special exhibition it was close; but after asking around every person possible in there that could help me to find the special exhibition. They had besides the other one that wasn’t available in that moment, one person help and explained why is it too a special exhibition. Bass Museum of Art is close because they are doing renovations so the Lowe Art museum is hosting some of the work from their outstanding and Bass permanent selection. The name of the exhibition was Dürer to Rubens: Northern European Art from The Bass Museum, the focus on this important partnership is northern European during the Renaissance and Baroque (periods 15th to 17th century). Their pieces on view show different materials oil on canvas, tempera on panel, and enamel on

I decided to visit the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center (Image 1). The URL for this museum is http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/museum/. My experience visiting this museum was very different from the other museums that I have visited more recently. It provided a great deal of interesting insight and topics for discussion for me to consider. My overall experience consists of the museum’s setting, any personal interactions that occurred, my analysis of my favorite work of art that I encountered, and my opinions on viewing art in person rather than through other material.

After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time, I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw last week, two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain’s The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton’s Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter, they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract Derain being a Fauvist and the more realistic painter Benton representing the American Scene style as a Regionalist.

On October 14, 2016, I attended the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst, Illinois. The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art is a museum that shows different pieces of art made from a wide variety of rocks and minerals, making wonderful works of art to say the least. The Lizzadro Museum displayed more than two hundred pieces of gemstones art sculptures, which is cut and polished to make it pleasing to the eye. Vases, bowls, plates different Gods and Goddesses sculptures were some of the many items that was on display at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art. The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art also had an abundant amount of different artworks from around the world as well as artwork from different eras. The timeframe of these artworks ranges

I chose to write about the art piece by Thomas Moran after going to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. While walking through the buildings I saw a mass of artwork that ranged from gold artifacts to paintings. I have to say that it was a lot to take in but I chose the painting by Thomas Moran called the Stranded Ship on East Hampton Beach. I liked the painting with the raging water crashing on the beach with the stranded ship in the distance. I really like the contrast of the dark waves with the white spray on the beach and white caps on the waves. It seems to tell how dangerous the waves can be but there is a lot of flow. The waves seem to be choppy but big and dangerous but I can feel the sense of movement and the wind blowing. It

The museums I chose were the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Museum of Art of Romania, and National Art Museum of China. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is located in Buffalo, New York and focuses on contemporary and modern art. In addition to having a large gallery of art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery also has over fourteen programs designed to education the public in the culture of art and each program may be different but incorporates all age groups. The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in Calea Victoriei, Romania (former royal palace revolution square and displays Romanian, European, and Oriental art, but focuses heavily on Romanian medieval and modern art. Furthermore, it also provides their website in multiple languages

* C.A.M. doesn’t sell or promote the unique aspects of this collection or the museum’s emphasis on historical context.

The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas has a variety of art collections. To be precise, the canopic jar is mounted on a large pedestal among other sculptures. This Canopic Jar was made in Egypt during the dynasty XXVI, 664-525 B.C. It was made from limestone. The jar was masterfully carved from stone and subsequently painted over. It is a historical masterpiece and it is relatively in good condition. Such stone jars were used to house the organs of the deceased. Their organs were put in these canopic jars during the mummification process. The lids of these stone jars have a human face. The faces were carved to represent the four sons of the god Horus. The three-dimensional jar is solid and quite large. It is well displayed in a spacious environment. The lid of the jar is organic due to the life-like face that stares back at the viewer. The rest of the jar is cylindrical with graceful proportions. The size of the jar interpenetrates with the surrounding space. It turns in space and it was meant to be viewed from several points of view. Its cylindrical nature makes the viewer’s eye wander all around its form to take in its splendor.

The bottom portion of the painting is topsy-turvy as well, showing shackled hands and chains raised from the turbulent seas. With close inspection, you can see fish within the thrashing waves on the bottom left portion of the painting. There are fish seen swarming a shackled hand in the bottom right portion of the work as well. One could possibly argue that the fish are sea monsters. I also see something that’s hard for me to make out, but I think it may be an emergency boat partially emerged from the waters. Lastly, I

The artwork that I chose was The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. This was a piece made with oil on canvas, made in 1840. The subject includes a slave ship on the ocean with a storm coming. Some objects in this painting are a ship, raging ocean, birds, and bodies in the ocean. The Slave Ship was created during the romantic era. One quality that shows the piece is from the romantic era is that he displays humans as helpless to nature. Turner uses dark reds, grays, blues, and yellows to convey despair and hardship. He did a great job of showing that nature is superior to humans by his proportion of the slave ship. The ship is small and engulfed in waves showing that even though humans may be selfish, nature will always have a power

If you have time to view one gallery of paintings at the St. Louis Art Museum if you’re in St. Louis, the collection of European Art should be your only choice. European Art consists of varieties of paintings, sculptures, textiles, and metalwork made in Europe and parts of the British Isles between the 7th and 18th centuries. Early records of European Art came from the Ancient Middle East around 3000 BC, where art forms from the Ancient Middle East began to become abundant in Europe. As artistic development was made, different cultures would adopt their own forms of it and cause it to spread to most of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Eventually, as time went on, art would change, vary and types of it would flourish, depending on what was going on in society. It’s very rare

The second painting that caught my eye was Ships in a Stormy Sea Off a Coast by Ludolf Backhuysen. The painting was created in circa 1700 to 1705. It is oil on canvas, and the picture plane is 59 3/8 inches to 91 1/8 inches. The original painting can be found at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The painting portrays ships that are struggling to stay topside against the raging storm. The painting can be found in the European collection because Backhuysen was a Dutch artist.