Lapidary Art Museum

On October 2013, this amazing museum celebrated their 100th birthday with a festival of indoor and outdoor activities, they performed art, science, live animals and off course lots of joyful music. This museum has captivated the hearts of many, not only do they provide a learning experience but make it fun and exciting for all that attends. Their numerous workshops make it possible for those who dream of a career in Art, to begin their first paintings and drawings among professional and inspiring

Over the spring break, I chose to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with my friends Irene and Mei. We explored many exhibits such as The Egyptian Art, The American Wing, and Asian Art. I saw statues, ceramics, textiles, pottery, and paintings. I really enjoyed looking at the Sphinx and sarcophagus in the Egyptian Art section. The interior design of the museum was so well planned out in each exhibit from the lighting of the room to the smell. The interior design of the museum was so exquisite especially the atmosphere it created. I felt like I could explore the corners of the world in one building.

On September 2nd I took a trip to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory in Atlanta. The museum included many art exhibits from ancient cultures around the world. Including pieces from South America, Greece, and Egypt with larger exhibits as well as African and Asian cultures with smaller exhibits.

I learned that it is okay to try new places you’ve never heard of. I learned a lot of information about upcoming art events that will be held at this art gallery. I learned about the white marble that is a natural resource in two places in the world, one being here in Sylacauga, AL. I learned that a very famous French artist has donated some of his white marble sculpture art to this museum and some of his thoughts on the marble that comes from Alabama. I learned that you don’t have to be a well-known artist producing quality art in order to produce an amazing piece of art. I learned that I really enjoy looking at art more than I thought I

Los Angeles is a beautiful city filled with many classy shops, modern houses and many diverse restaurants base from China, Korea, America as well as many other different countries. However, there is a museum that located right in the heart of Los Angeles where 6th street and Wilshire Boulevard parallel with each other. This is a very interesting place with many tourists and people visiting each day. The museum is a familiar attraction for many LA locals, and it is also the largest art museum in the Western United States named Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

I chose these two museums because I wanted to step out my tree and try going out doing some different else were instead of something around my neighborhood. Pulling up to their area at first was very weird because this was not an environment I was used to being

Visiting the beautiful Rancho Dominguez was a very fun experience for me and my friend. The museum was a very tranquil landmark that was well kept and organized. The staff was also very friendly and really helped us soak in as much information about the historic adobe museum and how it housed the Dominguez family.

Last Sunday my friend and I went to the Hellenic museum down town Chicago. It was a very slow day at the museum we were the only two visitors. In the entrance of the museum was the gift shop, the attendee was very kind and great us when we came in. She explain to us the two exhibitions that were open. She gave us a brochure of the museum, then explain to us a survey which if we fill we could get a 10% discount on the shop in the museum. The attendee gave us a description of the museum. It has three levels, the first level is a white spacious room with big windows facing the street. We took the stairs to the second level which was the one with rock and petrified exhibitions. In the entrance of the second level there were dresses and ornaments of the Greek culture. In the wall there were description of recent history of Greeks and celebration of the Greek independency from the Ottoman Empire. On the second level of the museum there were historical rocks of different parts of Greece and they have a brief history of catastrophes by volcanos. The museum have residuals of petrified forests and animals. They had the history of islands of Pythagoras and other famous Greek thinkers.

The museum I visited was the Kimbell Museum of Art and I chose this museum because I checked out their website and their artworks they carried interest me. My overall feelings about the museum were great. I loved the atmosphere, it carried and it had amazing works of art. Each piece carried its own unique meaning, therefore I will most likely be visiting this museum again. At the beginning of my visit it was hard to find the four different works of art since they were all from different ancient cultures, each piece was in a different section or building. However, I was able to find all the cultures I needed and their beauty was worth the search. The first work of art I took a look at was named, “Head”. It was from the ancient African culture

Taking the train ride to Manhattan on one of the coldest snowing morning was initially the worst experience about my visit to metropolitan museum, until to my surprise the art work inside melted all those feelings away. Although art is not something that I can draw learning about ancient history however has given me a new outlook. I chose the Mummy Artemidora from Egypt because I find the process to mummification very interesting during class lecture and the bronze diskos thrower from Greek because of his manly and perfect body. The two artifacts that I will be talking about are from the ancient Egyptians and the

For the exhibition review project, I went to the museum of fine arts Houston and saw the Parrasio Micheli art work; “Young Woman playing a lute”, which I felt it was interesting to talk about because it is one of european artworks from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Collection of Houston. I really liked to see like this exhibit because I got to look at the pictures differently, instead of looking at them as if just flicking through a book or looking at them online. Another reason why I was interested to see this collection was that they were European paintings, which are my favorite because they have very nice, old pictures and look very real. I actually paid attention to detail on the way the painting was made, and what might be the meaning behind them.

For our assigned cultural exposure I chose to visit the Saint Petersburg Dali Museum. I drove over on a windy day across the causeway in a Jeep that is less than running well, so by the time I found the museum I was a bit relieved. I had wanted to go to the Museum since moving here in early 2011 but have just never made the time. I lived in southern Spain for several years and one of the few regrets I have from my time there is that I never made it to the museum there.

When talking about the art gallery, the first scene occurred to my mind was the art gallery of museum. I went to some museums before to appreciate the artworks of different eras and cultures. Because I had lived in China for around twenty years, the most works I enjoyed were created by Chinese and they were filled with Chinese elements. And the majority of these artworks exist a long time and have diverse historical stories. Certainly, I had looked some contemporary arts, they delivered varieties of thoughts of the artists, reflecting their concerning about the current society, the life and death, even their unique opinion of the sex. So when we asked to do the gallery review, what I considered the gallery on this campus was that it would be more similar to a museum gallery which was constituted by lots of antique artwork. There would be many stories in the works, involving historical elements such as war and peace, also religious bible stories. Even I wondered that there would be prehistorical styles-the Bronze works or ceramic works-presented in the gallery.

I visited the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. The museum has many exhibits, three examples are the impressionism, classicism, and ancient art exhibits. Each exhibit had enjoyable visual works of art. I saw two paintings and two sculptures that were appealing to me. The paintings are The Garden of Eden and Athanor. The sculptures were Portrait of a Freedom Fighter and Hanging Mobile: Horizontal Black With Red Sieve.

When the heavens open, as they often do in Lisbon's spring, you can't beat a day in the cosy calm of a museum. I visited dozens, but the cream of the crop were definitely two that don't get enough tourist attention. The Museu da Marioneta is charming and surreal, inside which glowing lights lead you through incredible dolls and figurines, past theatrical history and all the way up the modern