Planning a Swarovski Event

The art piece “You Who are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” by Yayoi Kusama at the Phoenix Art museum, is a pitch-black room with mirrors lining the walls and black granite flooring and ceiling. Hanging from the ceiling to the floor are black cords three inches or so apart with multiple LED lights attached to each cord, which change to a new color scheme every two or so minutes and flicker on and off. When I first walked into the room the lights were all red, and by the time I exited they had shifted from red, to green and red, to blue and purple, to blue and green, to blue, and repeated again. The room is small, and is only about a 15 feet by 15 feet square space with one entrance and one exit. Although the room is

The arch is large with both fluted and unfluted columns, the latter being a result of 19th century restoration.[2] The spandrels on the upper left and right of the arch contain personifications of victory as winged women. Between the spandrels is the keystone, on which there stands a female on the East side and a male on the West side.[2]

3. At night, the hotel’s exterior is lit by a choreographed show of colors that change every half hour.

enjoying the look and decided to keep it.... However this piece has a more tradition

Dale Chihuly is an American glass blower (Dale Patrick Chihuly, 2015). The piece of art I’ll mainly be looking at is Citron and Cobalt Tower. This piece was located directly in the center of the museum as soon as you walked in to the show room. It caught my eye and I knew immediately what I wanted to do my paper on.

The presentations of glass objects as well as pieces of furniture are the next stop in the exhibition. We view a couple of lamps which have exquisite detail. The Lamp Bearing Youth (see Fig. 3) which was utilized as a home decoration seems to be more of an artifact. A young and fit man, presumably Apollo, stands in the now prominent cross balance posture. We then see objects such as the two Table Supporters and the Four Flasks. The two table supporters are very intricate objects, for they portray an almost devilish animal with a lion’s leg. On the other hand, the four flasks express the beauty of glass blowing with the exquisite colors and movements of lines. At the end of this room we are taken to The Moregine Triclinium which is a beautiful room with an empowering color of red. The room has what seems to be the second

Playful, radiant and graceful shapes tug at our heartstrings in the Luc collection. These exclusive pieces are created by hand welding rods to circular frames to depict the rays of sunshine.

     As I walked into the first gallery, I saw a wood sculpture that stood in the

The darkness of the evening slowly blankets the land. The harvest moon gowned in silver attire rises against the velvety black backdrop of night, peeking shyly from behind her misty veil. Below, a wisp of smoke conveying an ancient prayer dances upward toward the heavens. The lone worshipper feels the magic in her blood and bones as she casts her magic circle in the clearing. She methodically lights the colored candles she has placed in each of the cardinal directions: North is green and represents earth, the east candle is yellow and represents air, South is red and represents fire, and west is blue and represents water (Conway 231). As the

Around 200 BC, according to carbon-dated pottery found on the Paracas Peninsula at Pisco Bay in Peru, a mysterious image, called the Paracas Candelabra or Candelabra of the Andes, was made in the sand surrounded by large stones. It is 600 feet tall, 2 feet deep and resembles the image of candelabra. The symbol can be seen as far as 12 miles out to sea. There are many rumors as to what this symbol represented whether it be religious, a sailing navigation tool, a huge seismograph or even that it could be referencing a certain hallucinogenic plant.

Rock Crystal Sphere on a Stand with Dragons. 1868-1912. Rock crystal, bronze, silvering, and gilding. Crow Collection of Asian Art. This crystal sphere is a very big, and extremely polished. The sphere also acts like a type of lens so it flips the image of whatever is behind it. The crystal sphere rests on a very decorated, and detailed stand that is made out of bronze. The stand itself is elegantly decorated with a dragon that wraps itself around it as it weaves through some swirling waves. All of these fine carved details have received gilded and silvered treatment to enhance all of the movement that is being conveyed by all of the carved imagery of the stand.

Baletka (The Ballet Dancer), painted by Josef Loukota in early 1990’s was a gift from this Czech artist to my great-granddad and has been hanging on my grandparents’ wall since I can remember. The issue about having artworks at home is that they do not get appreciated enough: they are just always there and there seems to be nothing special about that one particular part of room. However, two features of this painting had always caught my eye. It was the shiny satin ribbon on the dancer’s ballet slippers and the soft, white ballet dress she is wearing. All my focus is on the soft and warm texture of the fabric that creates contrast to the dark and heavy background. The artwork evokes feelings of harmony, curiosity and sympathy and inspired me

The background is enameled with a deeper shade of blue, probably indicating the larger divinity of

Entering the Paula and Leonard Granoff Gallery at the RISD museum every work of art is like a hidden gem waiting to be found. A small sculpture in the corner of the gallery is one of those hidden gems made by the artist brothers of Nikolai and Simon Haas. The Haas brothers created the sculpture, Big Baby Accretion with Navajo Striations, in 2016. The creation is 12.25 inches tall including the thin spout at the top. It is meant to represent natural formations created in nature. For example, the uppermost part of the sculpture has a texture resembling coral and the bottom texture resembling tree fungi. Even though the two textures are different, they still form a cohesive piece giving the viewer an overall feeling of balance. Overall the sculpture is a piece with many details having great impact on the viewer.

Figure 1: Illustration of Hope Hailey & Balogun’s change kaleidoscope model (Balogun & Hailey, 2008)