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Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

MoMA Exhibits

space" spread over several buildings (About MoMA - Museum history, 2007). One of these, the "Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Educatio...

National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

The Modern Museum and the Significance in Defining African American Art

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

Art and Public Funding Controversy

("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...

Brickwork of Pennsylvania's Palmer Museum of Art

frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Two Art Figures from the Ancient World

This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...

George Stubbs' Painting Displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In five pages this paper discusses George Stubbs' artistry in a consideration of his paintings' composition and line uses....

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

Mona Lisa Viewing Experience

world that actually extend beyond a recognition of the genius of the painter. The symmetry, color, rhythm, and other components of...

Ritual and Museums

which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...

Overview of the Kimball Museum

serve to offer a very strong visual foundation for the rounded linear shapes of the building. There are also powerful pieces of ar...

Rebranding a Museum

and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

Manet's The 'Kearsarge' at Boulogne and J.M.W. Turner's Europa and the Bull Paintings Compared

a smooth, detailed technique....he later experimented with more radical techniques and evolved a highly original style that influe...

Francois Boucher's The Toilet of Venus and Edgar Degas' Nude Woman Having Her Hair Combed Paintings Comparison

Quite frankly, both Venus and the nameless woman seem equally as fair, yet because of her godly status, Venus is entitled to so mu...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...