The Art Pieces I Chose When Visiting The Detroit Institute Of Arts

My Humanities Art Experience took place at the Columbus, GA Museum, located on Wynnton Road. I really enjoyed my experience at the museum. It was my first time visiting an American museum. I saw many pieces of fine art, some of which I will list below.

The museum I chose to visit was the Dali Museum mainly because I have been wanting to check it out since I first moved down here to Florida three years ago. My sister has always been a huge Salvador Dali fan and even has a tattoo of his painting titled “The Elephants” on her side. I am looking forward to experiencing more of his paintings other than his most popular works of art. I am also hoping this experience will give me a greater appreciation for him as an artist by seeing the diversity of his works. What I am least looking forward to is trying to find one work of art that really stands out to me enough to write this paper about. I am sure I am going to find multiple pieces of art that I will love.

The Painting I chose is called “Mixtec Culture.” And it was painted by Diego Rivera in 1942, Mexico. It’s a Fresco style painting, which is “a wall painting technique that has been used for large scale murals since ancient times” (Getlein 159). This entire painting is an homage to the culture of Mexico, specifically the Mixtec people, and that’s what I love about it. The Mixtec people were renowned for their artwork so it’s fitting that Rivera depicts a peaceful community of artists such as mask and jewelry makers. This painting celebrates the artistic culture of the Mixtec people and that theme is directly linked to the political influences of the time, “Mexican government commissioned artists to create murals about Mexico itself- the glories

Detroit Institute of Art is located at 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI. The website is https://www.dia.org/. At this museum, there is a lot of Detroit and American history and also a lot of paintings from the 18 and 1900s. The website has over 6,000 pieces that are located on the site. Some of these can't be viewed but they still give you the history on the piece. One of the pieces that stood out to me was the Egyptian mummuy. That piece is a very ancient piece, but the detailing of the art interest me the most. I can just imagine the time and effort that was put into it.

DeYoung Museum has several renowned pieces of arts by well-known artists. One painting really stood out to me called Aspiration by Aaron Douglas. The painting highlights dream of freedom for number of people during the Renaissance era. It also shows the struggle of African American community in the United States. Some of the struggles and sacrifices made by individuals has really helped shaped our country’s future for new generations.

The piece that stood out to me is The Appeal” by Erica Daborn because of the simple black and white color. The first thing I noticed was the animals behind a wall or in some kind of cage while on the other side people are holding empty bowls. The people were asking the animals for food but there is also a lady with fox skin on her shoulders. The Mural was made with charcoal on a canvas and has many details in the texture of the animals and people. Daborn’s contrast on this mural makes it stand out, as well as the size of the canvas. She did very little of the landscape in the background so that people would look for the meaning instead of the beauty. On the plague next to the painting it mentions that it is a part of the Dialogues with Mother

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The Cleveland Museum of Art has many different collections on view ranging from African Art, Greek and Roman Art, Contemporary Art, and Medieval Art. The work I chose is The Good Shepard, which can be found in the Medieval collection in gallery 104. This work caught my eye because of the medium that was used to make it, the formal elements within the work, the meaning behind it, and the similar qualities to The Good Shepherd, Ornats, and the Story of Jonah. In today's world everything is so fast paced that we don't take the time or advantage of learning about the art that surrounds us.

My experience to the Dallas Museum of Art was a bit different from the last time I had attended the museum. I was curious to see what pieces of art there would be and if it would be the same as the previous visit which was long ago, but to me all the pieces of art were so different and very interesting. It may have been because I saw all the pieces in a new perspective since learning about the different types of paintings there can be and knowing how and where sculptures come from. Even though I do not know much of art I really gave it a try into seeing what the artist may have wanted us to get out of his work. By reading a view of the chapters made me aware of art, I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but it was actually nice knowing that a

On September 4, 2016, I visited the Matisse in His Time exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. This exhibit is home to a plethora of pieces by many different European artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. While it is focused on Matisse and his extensive works, containing more than 50 of his pieces, there are many portraits and sculptures by other influential artists from that time period including Renoir, Picasso, and Georges Braque. Three of the most appealing works that I encountered in this exhibit are Maurice de Vlaminck’s Portrait of Père Bouju, Pablo Picasso’s Reclining Woman on a Blue Divan, and Henri Matisse’s sculpture series Henriette I, Henriette II, and Henriette III.

As a child, I traveled to Europe and visited various museums that housed numerous famous paintings. I remember walking into museums and not understanding anything, I could never actually understand the sheer brilliance behind these works of art. Now, after taking this Art History course, I can safely say that I understand and appreciate art a lot more. I would love to go visit all those museums again, just to see the art works from a completely different perspective. When I saw the Sistine Chapel a few years ago, I thought it was absolutely beautiful, but I didn’t really know what the paintings stood for therefore seeing it now would be a completely different experience. After visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there was one painting that really stood out for me, Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens

I went to the Ann Arbor Art Museum to see the exhibit Moving Image: Landscape. For this exhibit I looked at three different works of art by Jim Campbell, Rick Silva and Antti Laitinen. The first piece I saw upon entering was by Jim Campbell called Seal Rock and it was displayed on the wall. The work of art was of misty rocks with LEDs behind the image to create a sense of movement. I enjoyed watching the movement of the mist and thought it was very calming. While interesting, it seemed like this piece would be better suited in a restaurant or waiting room of an office rather than a museum.

Assemblage art is the process of an artist creating a piece of work out of objects and materials rather than just paints and brushes. Assemblage art interests me more because of the history of the materials before it was created into a work being displayed. The specific artist used other’s scraps and “trash” to assemble a piece of art greater than both people combined and the ending product comes out to be something a lot more significant than “trash”. Although I don’t know much about assemblage art and the process of it, I can interpret it for hopefully what the artist wanted me to and I can find the significance within it. The piece of work I chose to analyze comes from the Wexner Center for the Arts here at Ohio State University. This piece of art was made in 1988 and comes from the Terri and Michael Smooke Collection, its name is The Last Supper.

A group of us Arts and Music students used the day on Wednesday to go into the city to visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a cold, breezy day so we were all bundled up in jackets and hats. As we got off the E train and walked toward the museum, its appearance was not what I expected it to be. The museum was an elegant, beautiful building made of what looked to be marble; not the big, brick monstrosity I had expected. Once we walked into the museum, it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season.

The second sculpture I want to talk about today is “Campus Talk” by Dennis Smith. This is another permanent sculpture on Western Michigan University and is one that everyone usually sees when they are heading to the library. This sculpture is my third favorite one on campus at this point in time. The sculpture has two students talking to another student on a bike. Dennis Smith also did a superb job using the elements of art throughout this sculpture. When observing the sculpture, the first thing you notice is the contour lines in the sculpture such as the book cover, fingers, and the straps on the backpack. These lines help define the outside edges of the sculpture. The next element of art that one can see in this sculpture is shape. The wheel on the bike is a geometric shape because it is a circle. This a great example of this element and one that anyone who views it can find. The third element present in this sculpture is value. In the sculpture, there is a bit of a grey scale although the sculpture is mostly light green now due to the weather. The fourth element present in this sculpture is the texture. The sculpture has a simulated texture which means that it