Whitney Museum Of American Art Analysis

The Montclair Art Museum is located in Montclair, New Jersey. The museum holds various collections throughout the year and offers an outlet for students and other artists to explore within their facilities. Upon visiting, the main exhibition presented was Matisse and American Art. This exhibition held 19 pieces created by Henri Matisse and other American artists. The museum centered on central theme of Matisse and there was a specific gallery of Matisse inspired Art. In this gallery I found Untitled #8 (2014) by Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American artist born January 28, 1917 in Camden, New Jersey.

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

The Brooklyn Museum hosts around 1.5 million works of art of different variations. One particularly fascinating genre is the Ancient Egypt exhibition. On the third floor, the exhibit is split into two sections: Early and New Kingdom, which is separated by a conjoined gallery. Entering into the conjoined gallery, artifacts from both eras are encased in rectangular glass. On the left, is the entrance to the New Kingdom Wing. In this section, a string of spotlights illuminates each encasement with a golden warm hue. Inside some cases are miniature shaved skulls placed upon a singular black pole. In others are lapis jewelry, and fragments of etched clay pottery. Further into the exhibit is yet another enclosed space. The walls are painted midnight black and the lighting is dimmed. There are rows of laid canvas wrapped mummies and tablet remnants all separated in glass.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today.

The Getty Center Museum offers a modern architecture and an outstanding view of Downtown Los Angles. The visitor of Getty Center Museum could reach the premises by car or by taking a public transportation. The Entrance to the parking structure located next to San Diego Freeway. After they parked at Getty Center Parking Structure, the visitor could take a tramway or walk along the sidewalk to get into the main museum. After they reach the Arrival Plaza, the visitor could take the stair to go up to the Rotunda Building where the information booth located at. Inside the rotunda building, on the plaza level, the visitor will see the information desk and the museum entrance hall. At the left side of the information desk, there’s a museum store.

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For our PEX Project, we visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. This museum is the oldest art museum in Philadelphia and is full of beautiful sculptures, paintings, and everything in between. It was very interesting to take the time to observe the employees’ approach to relay the stories, history, and meanings of the artwork to us in both an interesting and impactful way.

Arts come in different aspects such as music, painting, sculpting, photography, and movies. However, there is one unique piece of art at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC that will attract viewers for representing the history of one greatest city of America. This artwork is called New York 1911 which created by a Columbus artist, George Bellows in 1911 after he moved to New York. This artwork was done in a medium of oil and canvas with the dimension of 106.7 x 152.4 cm (42 x 60 in.) The brushwork of this artwork is visible, bold, and thick. Bellows painted a realistic scene of chaotic and busy state of the New York City from the 20th century. His utilization of space on the canvas was thought out well that he was able to draw everything

For this observation, I went to the “American Art” section on the first floor of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When you first walk into the exhibition you see a bunch of glass showcases and to the right was a whole hallway and section designated to Thomas Eakins. The Thomas Eakins’ section is rather large so I ventured there first. All of his pieces are so well done and lifelike. Although, there was so much to pick from, I found a small brown set of five figures in a glass case the most interesting. Each one is only the size of my hand. They are intriguing because not only are they in a well-lit big glass box in a darker hallway, but they are on a smaller scale than most of the other works of art around it. The big lit glass box is split

The mythological creature that I found in the museum was a griffin. Architectural panels, Roman, Imperial period, AD 193-235, Marble. A griffin is half eagle and half lion. The creature was the focal point of the work. It has a large tail that had leaves coming off of it. It’s front paw was in the air. The griffin was on a panel that was decorated around the border. The first border was a pattern of two diamonds and then one oval repeating. The second border was a circle with cut outs repeating all the way around the panel. The third border had pieces missing on the top. The border was an u with a line down the middle, below that was the repeating pattern of two diamonds and then an oval. The left side of the panel did not have any border.

The positioning of each of the figures causes the painting to feel crowded, considering each character is placed right next to one another. This technique places emphasis and focus on the story occurring between each of the figures rather than on the landscape in the background. However, Titian “subordinates” the painting by creating a bright sun that peeks through the clouds in the upper-right-hand corner of the background, giving viewers a bit of distraction from the concentrated foreground (Frank 82). The bright and brilliant colors of the painting are a result from Titian’s usage of oil paint. Because oil paint is very thin and slow drying, artists who use this medium are able to layer and blend the colors of an artwork to create more distinct and deep colors that stand out (Frank 124). The colors also appear very soft, resulting from the way in which Titian painted the artwork, probably using very light, thin brushstrokes. This technique further compliments the luminosity, or the glow and brightness of the work when it is viewed in person. A slight illusion of depth is given by Titian’s use of shadowy murky colors in the background, while he uses lighter and more luminous colors on the subjects in the foreground of the painting. While some may suggest the small sloping hill in the background also gives

The art gallery I visited was the El Paso Museum of Arts on April 8, 2017. After observing a number of paintings and sculptures, I decided to write an analysis on a rather simple and calm painting. The composition is by American born Susan Ricker Knox and is entitled Afternoon Tea. The artwork has no specific date but states it was painted in the 1920s. The medium used is simply oil on canvas. The overall compositional subject matter is two women, sitting back-to-back, enjoying their hour with tea. Afternoon Tea by Susan Knox represents a tranquil scene about leisure time that corresponds with the artwork’s line, color, and pose.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is well-known for its new building and the biennial exhibition. The Whitney Biennial aims to provide a main stream and a history of modern and contemporary art in the United States, and thus makes the audience feel familiar to American art. According to the Whitney’s official announcement, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, presented by Tiffany & Co. includes 63 participants who work in the field of modern and contemporary art dealing with various types of media such as painting, drawing, film and video, installation, photography, music and etc.

In Rogier Weyden’s Virgin and child, the artist uses idealism, overlapping, dull color palette, lack of space, and smooth textures to create a calm, intimate effect on the viewer. In the painting the artist uses an idealized Mary, in which she looks like the women of the norm during the fifteenth-century, by receding her hair line to her upper forehead. The hands are overlapping the child to show us that Mary is picking up her son and pulling him to her cheek. Mary makes a clear indication that her son is christ by her slight tilt of the head towards her son. The lack of space in the twelve by nine inches really emphasizes the intimacy between mother and child. The artist uses of the same dull white-grey color on both Mary and her child to establish another mother-son relationship. The oil on wood painting gives a smooth texture to the overall composition.

Life is full emotions like happiness and sadness. People sometimes feel happy, joyful, and cheerful, but sometimes sadness or depression. Edward Hopper and Takashi Nakamura draw their paintings to express different feelings. In Edward Hopper’s painting “Morning Sun” (1952), he displays the image of a woman looking outside alone in order to symbolize the woman’s feelings about “depression,” but also how she still has “hope” for her own life. On the other hand, in Takashi Nakamura’ painting “Kaikaikiki New” (2009), he displays the image of many cartoon-like characters in order to symbolize feelings of “happiness” Therefore, the two artists express opposing feelings in their works. In Edward Hopper’s painting,