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Art Critique of the Menil Collection

Uploaded by spootyhead on Mar 20, 2007

Art Critique of the Menil Collection

On April 7, 2002, I visited the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and Richmond Hall. I arrived at the Menil Collection at around 2:00pm and stayed until approximately 4:45pm visiting the three collections. As I drove to the museums, I was challenged with normal Houston traffic clutters, but nothing out of the ordinary. The weather was musty, full of humidity in the air with light sprinkling rain, and it seemed that it was about to start pouring outside but never did during my visit to the museum district. I was accompanied to the museum by a friend by the name of Jennifer, and I parked in the designated area for the Menil Collection behind the Menil Bookstore. The best part about the visit to the museums was that it gave me a chance to unwind. With a full time job and the tasks of a full time student on my back, it was enjoyable to be pulled away just to admire the beauty of the artworks free from everyday problems.

I chose a piece entitled “L’onde” or otherwise known as “The Wave” by Gustave Dore. Gustave Dore was a French painter who lived from 1832 to 1883. The date of the oil on canvas painting was unknown. “The Wave” is a permanent part of the Menil Collection painted on a rectangular canvas 58 1/4 in. by 46 1/8 in. in height. I chose this piece because it was one of the pieces that stayed on my mind through the entire visit throughout the museums even after seeing all of the other pieces at the other museums. I really enjoyed the way the piece responded to my emotional side and I really liked the piece’s aesthetic representation of the ocean. I love the ocean and this piece really seemed to sooth some of the stresses of everyday life. I would love to have this piece in my home.

“L’onde” was full of intense greens on top of browns to represent the moss and algae on the rocks and was glittering with the whites of the tide. The background was dark brown that seemed to fade into darkness as you looked to the top of the piece with a concentration of brightness on the whiteness of the tide crashing into the rocks. The oil on canvas painting was regular in its texture due to evenness of...

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Uploaded by:   spootyhead

Date:   03/20/2007

Category:   Art History

Length:   2 pages (556 words)

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