Museum Paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The Met, for short, can be described as a place of extraordinary value to the study of the fine arts. The Met was established in order to encourage the study, application, and practice of the fine arts. As a result, numerous professors advise their students to visit The Met. Thus, it is for this reason on the 18th of March that my brother and I traveled to the museum with the purpose to analyze artwork from the Italian Renaissance, especially those that were created in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Upon obtaining entry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was intrigued by the vast amounts of artwork present before me and immediately began bask in the beauty of the sculptures, paintings, and sarcophaguses.

The author traces the disruption of the museum architecture and the development of the museum as an independent building type. She highlights four key stages of its architectural formation associated with four time periods. They are Arcadia and Antiquity, Metropolis and Modernity, New Century, A New Aesthetic, and Recent Reactions: Fragmentation, Contradiction, expression.

The Impressionist period was a time of innovation. This created pressure on the artists to respond to the invention of the light bulb and the camera. Photography became popular with the middle class as it was cheaper and more accessible than portraiture. This forced painters to think outside the box and the impressionist art period was born. Painters, with this change, needed to experiment with different brush and colour techniques. They could reduce their attention to the subject matter and focus more on how they applied the paint. Realism was no longer the ideal in the artists eye (Impressionism, 2015, para 1). Landscapes became popular to paint with the innovation of tubed oil paints. Artists found it easier to transport their materials

The Musee de Louvre was the place I was most excited about when coming to France, and I have to say that I was not disappointed with it in the slightest. The one thing that I do regret coming into this was not knowing the background and history of the Louvre and a majority of its works. After doing some research, I came across the history and mission of The Musee de Louvre and I was fascinated with what I read: from knowing that The Louvre was originally created as a fortress to finding out how hard the architects and designers worked so hard to make it an accessible place for all.

There are many remarks that one can make about this museum. These can be positive and/or negative and surely vary from visitor to visitor. The following paragraphs contain some critical observations based on my described experience in the Athens City Museum.

Visiting the Met, as it’s colloquially known, is a great way to spend a day in New York. Of course, since the museum is two million square feet it is also easy to spend multiple days exploring. In the time that you take to visit you get to see artifacts, and artwork, that totals nearly half a trillion dollars. The Museum is also an event hosting center, enabling people in the area to meet. The Paintings in the Met are from a wide range of dates from 1550 B.C.E. all the way up to today.

Visiting the Museum of Jewish Heritage was quite an experience. The museum focused on Jewish culture before the Holocaust, the war against the Jew during the Holocaust and the Jewish renewal after the holocaust. Visiting the museum was definitely a big eye opener it helped me to realize that I did not know much about Jewish History as I thought I did.

You know what’s disturbing in today’s world? When a story about a lost pig in Dalhousie gets way more views than a local museum losing one of their prime time players. Heritage House Museum in Smiths Falls losing its curator Carol Miller disturbed me because people need to realize that it could happen in any of your towns, any day, anytime-- and if we don’t do anything to stop the hemorrhaging we will not have these local gems anymore.

The Tampa Museum of Art is a unique place, and definitely different from most art museums in the USA. The first difference is that it has its own hotel for visitors, specifically for the museum. A Second important difference is the type of art that it exhibits. The museum façade is reflected with programmable LED lighting installation. When the lights go on at dusk, it creates the magical effects the artist, Leo Villarreal, programmed for this purpose. This artwork reflects across the Tampa Bay, and can be seen from across the bay as well. During the daytime, it creates a “moiré-like pattern.” The museum has exhibitions inside and outside, making it unique in that way. This museum would definitely entertain, and educate you from the moment

The museum is very nice lots of fun facts and little pieces of history. However, the exhibit was very short and there was more reading than actual artifacts, this museum is quite small, but full of information, there is a lot to read, but if you'd rather watch videos, they have different ones running in each new area. From real war and Nazi memorabilia to boxcars, barbed wire, and brick ovens, this museum has a little of everything. The best thing was that there was no entrance fee.

Out of the entire visit, my favorite part was when we were on the ground floor with the Great Bath. For me, incorporating nature into exhibits is very important, so being able to enjoy the view and the breeze made it all the more pleasant. Stepping pass, on, and over rocks made me feel like some Roman woodland creature. Which is very dorky, I know, but it added to the mystical effect. The most fascinating section was the Temple Courtyard. I admire how they chose to create a bridge over it, rather than a path through it. By being removed and above from it added to the pure ambience of the room.

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.

“Plastic,” an art instillation at the Museum of Modern Art, created by artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi, blurred the lines between dance and visual art. I had the pleasure of experiencing this exhibit on March 5th, 2016. “Plastic,” reinvigorated my artistic eye, and challenged my preconceived notions of art and choreography.

The period of the second half of the 19th and the beginnings of the 20th century saw some of the most extensive transformations in the art market and the institution of the art museum in history. With the rise of the avant-garde and new artistic practices, the traditional enlightenment didactic vision of the museum was put under threat. This essay will focus on the tension between the museum’s historicity and the general tendency to move towards modernity and the discussions

When I first saw the museum I was amazed because the museum is surrounded by such beautiful environment, being around such green grass, trees, and the sea although it was quite a way away from the museum. The exterior of the museum, in my opinion, was a very cool be modelled after Roman architecture. After entering in the lobby, I found it to be very orderly and the security gave me a sense that the museum was heavenly guarded. After walking around the interior of the museum, with security guards in every room, I found that it was just as great as the exterior. The interior was amazing because each room was wide and each painting or sculpture was organized by country and artist making a very order museum atmosphere which allowed viewers to think about the artworks. Another thing about the inside of the museum was that each room was painted and lighted to not clash with the artworks in the room, allowing viewers from all around the world to see the true beauty of the artwork without the room messing up their perception of the paintings or sculptures.