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The Cleveland Museum of Art holds Damien Hirst’s “Bring Forth the Fruits of Righteousness from Darkness” on special loan for five years. It also holds many different exceptional pieces that include Asian and Egyptian art, and its own Picasso collection. It holds 43,000 works of art from around the world. The Museum holds so much history and offers free admission to its public to come and absorb some of world’s greatest works of art the Cleveland is lucky to have on display.

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,

founded in New York City in 1985 by Vito Russo, Jewelle Gomez and George Kolovakos.[ii]

Considering I visited the DIA a few years ago, I decided to look into a different part

The Dallas Museum of Art, or the DMA, displayed artwork of many different time periods from unique parts of the world, Africa all the way to South America. The cultures from room to room constantly shift in complexity and variety. Each room gave the audience a peek of what the past lives of this culture looked like and their values. The entire museum incorporated different parts of the world, each being exotic in their own way, and no two being alike.

The imposing modern wing exhibits collections of modern art, contemporary art, photography, architecture, and design more complete that has ever seen. The Department of Contemporary Art presents international art from 1945 to the present. It consists of more than 1,000 works that include painting, sculpture, installation, and new media. It show works by Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Bruce Nauman, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter and Cy Twombly, among some of the presentations more remarkable. It is considered to be one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This extraordinary collection of modern art from the Art Institute showcases some of the icons of the period, including Bathing in the River of Matisse; The Bird of Gold of Brancusi; The time punching by Magritte; Black Cross, New Mexico from O'Keeffe; Shoe of Orozco; Picture of Dorian Gray of Ivan Albright; and Woman standing of

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, part of the New Orleans Museum of Art, contains several dozen 20th century and 21st century sculptures from across the globe. The five-acre garden mostly features figures from American and European artists, most of them being created within the past 70 years. Surrounded by the beautiful landscape of City Park, many impressive works are presented at the sculpture garden. However, two particular works that stood out to me were the Venus Victorius and Untitled.

In the museum I visit they didn’t have a special exhibition it was close; but after asking around every person possible in there that could help me to find the special exhibition. They had besides the other one that wasn’t available in that moment, one person help and explained why is it too a special exhibition. Bass Museum of Art is close because they are doing renovations so the Lowe Art museum is hosting some of the work from their outstanding and Bass permanent selection. The name of the exhibition was Dürer to Rubens: Northern European Art from The Bass Museum, the focus on this important partnership is northern European during the Renaissance and Baroque (periods 15th to 17th century). Their pieces on view show different materials oil on canvas, tempera on panel, and enamel on

On Thursday March 22nd, I visited the Laguna Art Museum with my boyfriend. I was very excited for this assignment because I am a member at the Laguna art museum, but didn’t yet see the new exhibit for this season. The Laguna Art Museum is small and therefore, usually runs exhibits on one artist at the time. I knew I would more than likely only be able to pick art pieces from one artist. At this time, they were displaying a local artist, Tony DeLap, and work from his collection titled, “Retrospective”. My expectation was that I probably wouldn’t enjoy his work too much. I knew DeLap was a minimalist, “op artist”, and that style of work isn’t my favorite, typically I enjoy realist paintings. However, I decided that I should try and analyze art

Lee Bontecou is most famously known for her extraordinary sculptures and drawings. Almost all of her works remain untitled; she leaves that up to the audience to interpret. The sculpture that is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is untitled and was created in the year nineteen sixty-one. Lee Bonteou’s medium is very specific. Her style is very industrial she is big on welding and using raw materials such as canvas, copper wire, rawhide, and soot. The Artist was born in nineteen thirty-one in Rhode Island and grew up in a time were there was a lot of tension and war. She was very aware of what was going on in the United Stares as well as other countries around the world. The year she

These artists present diverse pieces representing the many cultures in the Western United States through the ideas of labor, nostalgia, memory, visibility, and displacement. Frederick and Jan Mayer Director at the DAM, Christoph Heinrich stated, "We're proud to support innovative work by artists who bring their unique perspective on the American experience to examine the concept of place as a complex and ever-present

John Volk was the architect that designed The Museum of Fine Arts and explained the structure as such: “a museum should give a feeling of permanence and that is what I have tried to do with this building”. His plan was well executed, when I arrived to the museum I noticed two different designs. The front of the museum reminded me of the Ionic Order, the Volutes and the molded bases became my main focus. The beige paint seemed like a great fit as well, it added to the light and airy flow within the museum and gave me further evidence that the Ionic order outside represented what was displayed inside. However, the actual style of the building was a Palladian Style which originated from Europe in the 1500’s.

My trip to Philadelphia Museum of Art was really knowledgeable, joyful and informative. This Museum of Art is the largest museum in the United States. When I arrived at the front of the museum I was surprised and amazed how beautiful was the front entrance. The unique design and the gigantic pillared building attracted me. The entrance had a huge statue of a lady with a bow and arrow in her hand at the top of the Museum’s Great Stair Hall known as Diana (1892 – 1893) by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. Diana is made up with copper sheets with the height of 14 feet 6 inches. I was fascinated with many of the exhibits they had set up. There were rooms with different groups of art according to their type, year and location they were made. All of the art in the art museum were interesting to look at and interpret.

One of the reasons I enjoyed this exhibit so much is because several pieces involved the viewer. There were two artworks of similar style that I was immediately drawn to, which I later noticed were by the same artist. Adam Fuss is the creator of these colorless photographs and though they share similar physical characteristics they have different meanings. “Untitled” (2002) was an image of a skull and “Home and the World” (2010) showed an image of a mattress. From a distance, I saw what looked like shiny aluminum surrounded by a picture frame. As I got closer I could see an image almost jumping out towards me, but only when the light was hitting it at a certain angle. I could also see my reflection in this mirror-like creation. This type of art is called a daguerreotype and is one of the earliest forms

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is the world’s leading modern art. Its exhibits have been a major influence in creating and stimulating popular awareness of modern art and its accompanying diversity of its styles and movements. The museum’s outstanding collections of modern painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints range from Impressionisms to current movements. Moreover, there are exhibits of modern architecture, industrial design, sculpture, photography, prints and electronic media. The museum presently has a modern art library of 300,000 books and impressive collections of films that are shown regularly. The Museum is said to be the complementary of the Metropolitan Museum