Lillian Gregory

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

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.

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

Art History is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts. The history of art, we feel, can sometimes be confused with art criticism. However, Art History is concerned with finding the value of the artistic piece in respect with others in the same category of art or movement, and art criticism is more of an evaluation of art. The art examined best represents the culture during the time period, visions the artist imagined, and history behind an event. It also represents society in a specific area, beliefs the people may have, writing that tells a story, the natural world and environment, conflict between people and areas, and the human body. With these representations, artwork overall represents the life in which we live (d). Each piece has its own genre, design, format and style to it. This makes each piece extremely different, yet pleasing to the eye. They also vary between paintings, sculptures and architecture. These different types also make a variety of artwork to be seen by all people. The art pieces that I chose, Jar, Bottle and Glass by Juan Gris, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, and Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, seemed interesting to me and I believe to best represent the context in which they were created, along with the major artistic movements of the time. I went on to research them more thoroughly to better understand the history behind them,

Last Sunday, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts and walked through the marble corridors in pursuit of Percy’s “it.” I was accompanied by a friend who was in pursuit of taking candid photos. I came in with a set of expectations as Percy writes, “the sightseer measures his satisfaction by the degree to which the [museum] conforms to the preformed complex” (473). When I entered the museum, the quietude of the atmosphere caused me to become drowsy and I quickly looked for the café to drink coffee. Feeling energized, I wandered aimlessly for close to an hour, amazed by the museum’s architecture and rustic paintings displayed. However, being surrounded by great artistic pieces of history, I did not gain the sense of being enriched or enlightened. Due to the nature of the assignment, I was not nearly as interested and felt that I could have been lost in the moment if I had entered on my own free will. That was until I stumbled upon the “Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada” art

How can art make an audience listen? Sonny Assu sets a prime example of getting a viewer 's attention, in his piece “The Away Teams Beams Down to What Appears to be Unlimited Planet,”2016 displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The following writing will talk about Sonny Assu as an artist and the social historical context of the work.

In the novel, The Path of Names by Ari Goelman has a theme of believing in things even when others don’t have the same opinion. Dahlia Sherman had absolutely no interest in attending any camp but magic camp. She sees two little girls with bright blonde hair walk straight through the burgundy wood wall of her cabin. Dahlia was as scared as a bunny in a fox hole. She tried to tell some of the other campers and counselors but no one believes her. Her dreams have been filled with a yeshiva student named David. The guy in her dreams and the little girls that walked through the walls lived about a gazillion years ago together. David cast out of his Chasidic community. Dahlia must find out who these girls are and what they want to do with her.

The title of the exhibition is called “Intersection: World Arts, Local Lives.” This exhibition opened on September 30, 2006. Some of the pieces displayed on this exhibition were not new, since Professor Brown had already gone over them. The exhibition contained a divination board, vessels, male and female figures, masks, headdresses, staffs, textiles, among others things. The art pieces were from different parts of the world. The exhibition is divided into four different sections, each with its own theme. The different themes were Art and Action, Art and Knowledge, Art and Power, and Art and Transformation. The art found in the museum seemed like it didn’t have any crack, dents, or breaks on them. Professor Brown showed the class some pictures of art pieces that had some broken

The work is a colorful representation of the past as well as the future showing all aspects of life. There was no detail information on this collage of title work other than the name, but it spoke to me and I had to share this with the class. If you didn’t know anything about art, this work would get your attention and show you the past and take you forward into today. The complimentary colors used in this display has a smooth earthly tone, but as you view the artwork it has a very pleasant, comforting feel as you view the mellow soft colors displayed in this design. This type of work has vivid elements, it really get your

Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman both started with the same idea of dancing, and how they should incorporate human movement instead of ballet that was more unnatural to the body. Even though they had a similar thought about modern dance, they had one thing that made them very different, which was their choreography. Duncan pieces were lively and upbeat, and Wigmans were dark and mysterious. They both approached modern dance through a different eye. Even if they lived in two different parts of the world, “The American, as represented by Isadora Duncan, and the German, as represented by Mary Wigman,” (Cass 247), the world would then get two different choreographers that were evolving at the same time in history, which impacted the dance history.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s creation Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931) is a complex visual demonstration of the modern architecture and design, which gains particular importance in the historical context of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The filmmakers of the time, very aware of the educational power of the cinema, undertook the task of portraying American life in such way that the dejecting circumstances of the crisis could have been lightened by the believable positive images on the screen. Thus, “one of the most compelling ways to convey these social messages was visually through sets, props, decor, and lighting—through the very design of the film.” In 1930s, the film designers were enabled to experiment with the materials and technologies

“The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a moving poem that centers around the realities of having an abortion. If read closely, it can be understood in a many ways. A Marxist critic, for example, would see it as a mother who chose to have an abortion after the realization that she is not of a class or financial situation to have a child. A psychoanalyst, on the other hand, might see a woman who is using defence mechanisms to rationalize her choice. Two new ways to analyze this poem are through the theories of structuralism and deconstruction.

Despite this lack of freedom, aristocratic women, as has been previously stated, gained power through their family connections. Gregory of Tours provides an example of this. Berthegund was denied, by her husband, the opportunity to join her mother at a religious community in Tours. She turned to her brother, Bertram, the Bishop of Bordeaux for assistance: “The husband followed Berthegund to Bordeaux, but the Bishop said to him: ‘You married her without her parents’ consent, and therefore she is no longer your wife.’” He further writes: “Bishop Bertram gave his promise. ‘I admit that my sister came to me after many years of married life,’ he said. ‘It was out of brotherly love and affection that I kept her with me as long as she wished to stay.’” The example shows that kinship between Berthegund and her brother Bertram remained significant. Bertram went to great lengths to keep her shielded from her husband. Bertram, a Bishop in Merovingian society, had the power to protect his sister. One aspect of the power of women remains kinship; however, that family connection must have influence in and of itself. Therefore, the power experienced by aristocratic women originated from family bonds; male relatives carried the necessary weight to give women influence in their respective marriages.

When one walks into RISD Museum’s contemporary exhibition, it is easy to notice the architectural strong lines of the room and immediate sculptures on view, which are simple but strong with minimalistic lines are easy on the eye. One glance at Steven Campbell’s Men Insulting Nature and the Notion of Travel, and people don’t know what to do. The large size of the canvas, in comparison to the other works of art in the exhibition, is harsh to the eye. Campbell’s piece creates a reaction opposite: one needs to back up and take in the whole piece, then move closer to analyze the details. This “dance” continues, moving closer to look at the tiny details, then backing up to look at the whole piece with the new information learned; however, every time the viewer does this, it leaves them with more questions.

Mary Gaitskill is an American writer who was written novels, essays, and short stories. One of the short stories that Gaitskill is most famous for is “Tiny, Smiling Daddy.” Gaitskill shows much of her creativity and abilities as a writer in this story. Compared to some of the nonfiction pieces that we have read, Gaitskill’s work of fiction is surprisingly different; it could be said that these differences are due to the contrasting elements between the