Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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. The overall environment of the museum was very calm, quiet, and welcoming. At times it became a bit awkward to talk too

The Gross Clinic, by Thomas Eakins HA-314-801 The History of American Art “I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is.” – Walt Whitman Thomas Eakins, was one the most important painters of American Art History. He also was an photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. In this essay, you will explore his life, his works and one of his most famous paintings' which considered shocking by

Transition of art and architecture from the gilded Age to the era of Ashcan artists Introduction Art is the expression of creative skills and imagination, through a visual medium such as painting or sculptures. Architectural is the art of designing and constriction of an object or a building. During Gilded Age the newly wealth citizens of America traced their ancestry and cultural heritage to the greater civilization and aristocracies of Europe. People spend months collecting and moving art and architecture

This week’s paper will be about the change of views in America and how art and culture along with changes in technology helped America grow. The world’s fair in Chicago in 1893 was the 400 year anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering the new world. The buildings were made from a variety of materials. I hope you enjoy this essay. The first topic will be the World’s fair of 1893. Like I started to say in my beginning paragraph the 400th year anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival

Central Pennsylvania, and specifically, the Harrisburg area, is full of many potentially bright minds who unfortunately can’t always find the right place with people who will nurture and encourage them. Plagued with the common national problem of an overpopulation of students paired with an understaffing of teachers, many of these minds go by without anyone to guide them in the right direction. As a result, intelligence that could be used to better the world around us is directed toward darker things

was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the youngest daughter to Jean Adolphe Beaux and Cecilia Kent Leavitt. After her mom died and their dad left for France, Cecilia and her sister, Elta, were raised by their grandparents and aunts (NMWA, 1). Beaux’s interest in art started at a young age when she was encouraged at home and in school to take up art. Her and her uncle would visit the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she had her first major exposure to art (Carter, 25). When she attended

While visiting the SCAD museum of Art I came across an extraordinary piece of art that caught my eye.You Diserve it mama!! by, Aaron Fowler this art piece caught my eye for many reasons.One being it was a tribute to his mom.Secondly I liked the way the artist used everyday items to create this piece.        The Art piece was very visual with the mom cooking and cleaning Fowler used cloths for her clothing and newspaper cutouts for the pots and pans she was using to cook.He used iron boards to display

born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She was the leading artist during the Impressionist movement. She was the fourth child and the daughter of a investment broker and a well to do real estate. How her parents raised her reflected upon her family's high social standing. Mary Cassatt always knew she wanted to become an artist from a young age. When she was about 15 she persuaded her parents to let her go to a prestigious Pennsylvania fine arts

short amount of time he had classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied with Frederic Rondel. Homer began creating great oil works with only a year of self-training. Homer’s mother tried to raise money for him to go to Europe to further study, but this did not happen. Instead Harper’s sent him to the American Civil War, where he would go on to sketch mostly everyday camp life and also battle scenes.

Tanner was an African-American male artist who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1859. The son of a minister and a school teacher, Henry was the oldest of nine children. Tanner went to a school named Robert Vaux which was one of the few all-black institutions that offered art classes. At only 13 years old young Henry had already decided that he would become a painter, and as the years went by he created as much art as he could. It is said that he was able to work on his artistic skills