Guggenheim Fellows

The purpose of this essay is to examine the controversial topic of the white cube and how the artists try to go over this fixed model. The first part of the essay is focused on the description of the model of the white cube and how it starts to be the ideally model for the art exhibition. Far away from the previous conception of the exhibition where the Salon Model was predominant. Nevertheless it starts to be clear that this model is not perfect: directly connected with the business of the art and

For nearly 80 years, visitors to a New York art museum called the Frick Collection have stood behind a velvet rope at the bottom of a sweeping marble staircase and longed to see the private rooms upstairs. By 2020, they will be able to satisfy their curiosity. That’s because Henry Clay Frick’s three-story mansion in New York City, which opened as a museum in 1935, is going to turn private living quarters into exhibition space and expand with a 42,000-square-foot addition. Two of the Frick family’s

creates shallow space, and not distract the viewer. The color pallet consists of the muted primary colors of blue, red, and yellow. Franz Marc always associated color to certain meanings, and his approach to color theory is stated in a letter written to fellow artist August Macke which says “Blue is the male principle, astringent and spiritual. Yellow is the female principle, gentle, gay and spiritual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the color to be opposed and overcome by the other two” (Marc)

the contrasts of two very important art galleries built 9 years apart. The Guggenheim, 1943-59, was built solely for Solomon R, Guggenheim to exhibit his collection of both modern and contemporary art from around the world. This building in New York was said to be one of the architect’s most important public projects , the architect being Frank Lloyd Wright. The building that will be put into contrast with the Guggenheim is the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1962-68. Mies Van der Rohe was asked

Solomon R. Guggenheim desired a place to hold his four year old museum of Non-Objective Paintings. He enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright to artistically create a unique dwelling place for his preciously prized work. Wright didn’t agree with Guggenheim’s vision for the desired city location. Guggenheim won the battle and began to purchase appropriate land plots on Fifth Avenue to ensure the best natural light source and perfect city backdrop for his art museum. It took 16 years (1943-1959) for the design

being very oval in shape and funny looking. They are made of caster or metal and his sculptures are always doing some activity or motion. His beautiful artworks are now displayed in many institutions around the country being Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Otterness has even been named the ‘best public art’ sculpture for his works. He gained this reputation through making numerous public sculptures of human beings or animal figures

Creating Masterpieces Surely everybody has been to the top of a building or a skyscraper in their life? Almost everybody has been to some kind of monument or statue as well. Do you even think to yourself how these beautiful, extravagant projects have been built? Many people overlook this aspect of the design not knowing the confusion and intelligence that goes into these types of skyscrapers or statues. This is where Frank Lloyd wright comes in: an architect who has helped in so many “invisible”

home to number of architectural classics. Two of these masterpieces of architecture are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Both continue the metaphor of New York being a world within a world and possess the latent fusion of form and function, one dependent on the other. The Metropolitan Museum is the epitome of neo-Classical style while the Guggenheim is a modernist powerhouse. Each museum serves

The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright Before Frank Lloyd Wright was born his mother knew he was going to be a world renowned architect. In his nursery, she hung prints of well known cathedrals of Europe on the walls. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8 ,1869. He was always very close to his mother, and when his father left Frank went off to work to help his mother raise the other children. Frank’s father also had a large impact on his son’s life. Able to play a dozen instruments, he taught Frank

The Contemporary Art Museum is one of the most visited in Tampa. It opened its door in 1989 near the USF College of The Art. The museum has presented numerous exhibitions of contemporary art from the United States and around the world including Africa, Europe, and Latin America. The museum’s primary objective is to bring the University and Tampa Bay community vital, investigative and scholarly contemporary exhibitions (aboutsufcam). In doing so (CAM) is able to present to the community a variety