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November, 2017 Description and Reflection of Dallas Museum The Dallas Museum is a renowned art museum established in 1903 and is located in Dallas, Texas (Neumann et al. 19). The Dallas Museum of art is one of the largest art museums in the United States of America containing more than 24,000 collections of art ranging from the ancient to the modern ones (MacDonald & Brettell 112). There are numerous things inside the museum, such as the pieces of art, museum visitors, and the architecture, that relate

LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA as it is commonly known, is among the world’s largest art collections in North America, and to be specific enough the most prevalent artwork in the western United States (Compton 165). This massive art museum has a collection of over 100,000 artworks, which extends from the ancient times to present days (Gilbert and Mills 174). These collections, which are mainly from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin-America and America itself

Analysis & Evaluation The two collections articulate a discourse about national identity and how it is reflected in the art produced in the United States. Both museums employing traditional classification from the art history, arranging the collections by period, schools, style, movement, and artists. Both collections approach the paradigms that address the historiography of American Art has established: the Colony, the configuration of the Republic, The Civil War, the Centennial of Independence

The Museum of Modern Art and its Impact on Museum Architecture During the early part of the twentieth century, the architecture of art museums shifted in the United States. As the role and purpose of museums changed with the times, so did the buildings that housed the artwork. Architects designed specific museum sites as opposed to converting royal palaces. While some museums take inspiration from other successful museums, others break the mold and become the new standard. The Louvre in Paris

I. Norton Simon Museum II. Introduction A. This research paper will be analyzed of a painting that I observed from the Norton Simon Museum. It’s the painting of Alcibiades on His Knees Before His Mistress, by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee. The reason I chose this painting is because for me it was different from all other paintings I viewed in the museum. To me it was different

about, is peeing in Venus’s direction, through an ivy plant which is mentioned to represent fertility. On the Museums website this act along with the veil, crown, and pearl earrings, represent fertility referenced by “Italian Venetians”. What I found most interesting about this painting is the tiny snake near Venus. Why is it there? Especially in a painting that resembles marriage. The museum website mentions that this snake reveals the “darker aspect” of marriage. That is, “illicit”, not approved

Beginning March 1st, 2018, all out-of-state visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be required to pay a mandatory admission fee. A reversal of the previous pay what you want admission, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Website adult admission will be twenty-five dollars, senior admission will be seventeen dollars, student admission will be twelve dollars and children under twelve will be free. The only exception to this new policy is that visitors from New Jersey and Connecticut

The Denver art Museum, a very strange looking building at first sight. Well I guess the question to ask is strange to what? Because everything is relative. So the Denver art museum architecture is very different relative to the buildings around it. To me it looks like an explosion of shapes, Boxes and triangles and wedge shaped objects flying from the center of creativity. As said earlier the architecture is strange or vastly different relative to the buildings around it, but when you push your views

Frick Collection and The Met: A Comparison The Frick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are both very distinct art museums. If you visit the museums or their online websites, it becomes very apparent that they differ in historical backgrounds, in their curatorial departments, in the way in which they were founded and then funded and in the collections of art that they house. I visited both museums and it was evident to me that they bore many differences, and at the same time, they were

GOAL My goal for this project is to plan and make different dreamcatchers. I am not the most creative and crafty person so I am hoping that this project will challenge me. I would like to make a few different styles of dreamcatcher and by the end of this project I would like to have at least three dreamcatchers that will showcase the work I will do. I chose to make dreamcatchers because I am interested in the mythology of dreamcatchers and I love the way that they look. I already had one dreamcatcher