Sex is a powerful word that can mean many things to certain people. Not only can it be heard differently but seen in a different context as well. Most museums for the most part hardly dedicate exhibitions to represent the different forms of sex because of the repercussions that can affect its reputation. They abstain from having to deal with controversies and with conservative people who are close-minded from not going to their museums. In this paper, I will explain how I took a patriarchal heterosexual painting and transformed it into a queer masterpiece exhibition by queering the space and sound to portrayed the importance of sex, race, and sexual identity. I visited the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was surprised to see paintings and …show more content…
One image that I would want to change is one called Prehistoric Figures by Charles Garabein. I was amazed about how it was displayed in the open and without any warning signs. Yet, I did not really feel a connection to it and it did not amuse me in anyway. All I could think about was how bored both the Caucasian woman and man looked. It was not sexy or engaging at all. The exhibition, in which this painting was in was way of context and had no real significance to have been placed there. Therefore, I would like to create a new room specifically only for the display of both hetero and queer sex. I will only introduce two new paintings along with Garabein’s, but without any descriptions on them. I would like for the audience to have the ability to give them each a tittle and will provide them with a pencil and paper. This way the visitors are engaged and force to have to pay close attention to the exhibit. First off, the name I want to give my exhibition is, ‘Breaking Tradition’. I will start with making the exhibition room smaller compared to the rest of the other rooms in the museum. This room will only contain three paintings that are more than enough to portray my message. I will place Charles Garabein’s painting in the middle because of the position in which both the female and male are placed. They are both standing straight, yet looking away from each other while being naked. Therefore,
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.
During my visit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artwork that caught my eye was Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (No Radio). I noticed this piece because it reminded me of Andrea Mantegna’s Dead Christ because the use of perspective. If I had not taken this art history course, I would not have thought much of the use of black and white with the red print message and border that makes a political statement for women. I’ve been to this museum before and I really did not appreciate the precision and all the aspects of an art work. The dead woman’s body is partly uncovered, showing conservatism but her heart is in a man’s hand. The positioning of the visible arm and the heart shows an interest in the human form and anatomy. Moreover, the
I had the pleasure of visiting San Jose Museum Of Art and was very Impresses .
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two paintings are exhibited taking place in the 1800s. These artists have similarities and differences viewpoints of the environment in their painting and it helps people get a glance of what the 1800s were like.
Aside from the Brooklyn Museum, the only museum I had been to in the last four years would be the Met Breuer. As I was instructed to visit the Diane Arbus exhibit at the Met Breuer, I imagined the same type of scenery any museum would look like; high ceiling, large frames, and a collection of detailed and colorful work. It occurred to my surprise when instead I saw an identical collection of same sized frames, of just people, in what seemed to be black and white. As I took a deeper glance, I noticed almost none of the people photographed were smiling. It appeared that they were candid photos, yet they all looked directly at the camera. Arbus’ photos were drawn to unusual public places and scenery in black and white with some surreal contrast portraits. I noticed the raw images of peculiar people often brought focus on those who may be the outliers of their society; transgender, dwarfs, nudists, circus clowns, and even children. There were various particular themes that struck a chord with me, however, among the many images I came across during my search, I found Arbus’ portraits on transgender people provoke the most emotion and intrigue. The wide variety of each portrait as well as the ways she chose to portray them told a story of both lives and culture within her lifetime. Being particularly interested on transgender people, I was captivated with the complexities of her work and the way that she transcended so many boundaries which constantly had me question the theme she
This past Friday, I attended an art exhibition at the Memphis College of Art where I saw great paintings from Meghann Riepenhoff, along with Tim Andrews. The show consisted of both their paintings in separate sections, they were the only two artist. Personally, I’d say the show combined did not have a theme, but as separate it did. When I first stepped in the building, I was welcomed by greeters, the event coordinator and Riepenhoff’s paintings. Her painting’s made me think the overall event theme was about the beach and waves, but that was not the case. While I continued walking and observing the painting’s I was greeted into Mr. Andrews’s exhibit, which consisted of self-portraits. Both artist having paintings placed in the same space didn’t take away from one another’s paintings.
Bathhouse, a public place which Shirin Neshat depicted in her film Women without Men, as well as a fantasy of imagination of orientalism, is the name of the exhibition which Veronica Bechtold, Rebecca Gross, Tia Harestad, Lisa O’Connor, Selena Skalisky have curated as their dream feminist exhibition. Inside the space of the Bathhouse, the works of seven artists from all over of the world are chosen as part of the exhibition. All of the art prieces articulate the multiplicity of identity through visual representation across medium, utilizing an array of subjects that ranges from pubic hair to female genitalia, which opens up a conversation on how each artist represent differences by visually engaging the audience.
While Clement Greenberg suggested a narrow vision of modernism emphasizing “forms, flatness, and internal logic,” postmodernism artists refuted Greenberg’s principles which only focused on heterosexual men – through encouraging a wide array of voices to portray a direct message towards the wrongs of the society. In response to the 1970s feminist movement which was dominated by white women, Carrie Mae Weems’ “Kitchen Table Series” and Shirin Neshat’s “Rapture” present a lower class standing of women of color in the society through exhibiting complex identities. Both “Making Museums Moral Again” and “Talking art with Carrie Mae Weems” discuss hypocrisy enrooted in the “reality of museums that are ethically and politically compromised,” and artist
In this essay I will be discussing and critically evaluating Griselda Pollock’s comment while referencing gender and/or body in the broad spectrum while referencing two works of art.
The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.
From Luna’s museum installation of his own body and belongings as “artifacts and Wilson’s provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains’ symbolic home altars, Osorio’s condensed spaces (living rooms, bedrooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green’s genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical undertakings of these artists illustrate how race discourse is rooted in a visual technology of display.
Attending the world 's largest erotic art museum has encouraged me to view sexuality with a more opened minded perception. Sexuality is very diverse for instance, in the way sexual acts are performed and carried out. Historically, it seems that individuals are biologically and genetically programmed to seek out sexual behaviors with others. Either for the means of reproduction or their own personal pleasure, but one thing is very evident sex is pleasurable and enjoyable for most. However, cultural restraints have had the biggest effect on sexual history and throughout the museum that is a fundamental element of human sexuality that is apparent in the many paintings and sculptures. The entire collection properly displays sexuality through the race, culture, religion, political affiliations, and historical time. It was exhilarating to observe many artist viewpoints of sexual behavior. For instance, in the lithograph, titled "Garden of Earthly Delights", by Hieronymous Bosch, in 1500 A.D. the portrait portrayed elements of the earth entwined with sexuality.
After getting over my initial reluctance, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was only the 2nd time I’d been to an art museum, so I wanted to make the most of it. When we first arrived, we looked around at some paintings. I visited an exclusive temporary exhibit of Edvard Munch which included a surprising amount of paintings of naked women. Nothing caught my eye in the first few galleries, but then I stumbled on an exhibit called “In Character” by Nam June Paik. As soon as I walked in, I got embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.”
Now that the renovation of our new office is complete, it is time to consider furnishing the new space with works of art that reflect the spirit of the company and the ethos we wish to communicate to new clients. When walking into our organization's headquarters, we want people to gain a sense of tranquility and confidence. No matter how stressed they might feel, we want them to know that the partners at our law firm can handle their concerns. An image of nurturing and competence is an ideal first 'scene' for them to be greeted by, which is why I would suggest a painting by Mary Cassatt.