Art 203 Museum Report
James Gleason
ART 203: Art History I
Instructor: Patricia McDonald
April 5, 2017
ART 203 Museum Report
Museum #1: Detroit Institute of Arts (www.dia.org, Detroit, Michigan)
Museum #2: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Oxford (www.ashmolean.org, Oxford, England)
Museum #3: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) (http://muac.unam.mx/, Mexico City, Mexico)
Artwork: The Detroit Institute of Arts contains over 60, 000 works of art including art from Africa, Oceana, the Indigenous Americas, Asia, American Art (early Colonial period through World War II), post-WWII American art, African American art, and European art (ancient Greece and Rome through the 1950s). The museum also contains nearly 35,000 prints, drawings, photographs, watercolors, posters and artist books, as well as nearly 10,000 original film and theater photographs and posters.
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology offers a diverse array of art including the world’s largest collection of Raphael drawings, Egyptian pre-Dynastic ceramics and sculpture, Minoan art, Anglo-Saxon art, the largest collection of modern Chinese painting in the Western world. The Western art collection includes painting, drawing, …show more content…
The reddish strokes in the space above the hat could represent anxiety or uncertainty, which is what his facially expression seems to present to the viewer as well. The grayish paint strokes represented in the negative space outside van Gogh’s image sharply contrasts with the orange, yellow and reddish colors in the facial area and hat, which adds to the overall boldness and vibrancy of the painting. In addition, the space appears to be illusionistic, as the painter depicts an illusion (van Gogh himself) of the three-dimensional spatial world on a two-dimensional
ART 203: Art History I
Instructor: Patricia McDonald
April 5, 2017
ART 203 Museum Report
Museum #1: Detroit Institute of Arts (www.dia.org, Detroit, Michigan)
Museum #2: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Oxford (www.ashmolean.org, Oxford, England)
Museum #3: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) (http://muac.unam.mx/, Mexico City, Mexico)
Artwork: The Detroit Institute of Arts contains over 60, 000 works of art including art from Africa, Oceana, the Indigenous Americas, Asia, American Art (early Colonial period through World War II), post-WWII American art, African American art, and European art (ancient Greece and Rome through the 1950s). The museum also contains nearly 35,000 prints, drawings, photographs, watercolors, posters and artist books, as well as nearly 10,000 original film and theater photographs and posters.
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology offers a diverse array of art including the world’s largest collection of Raphael drawings, Egyptian pre-Dynastic ceramics and sculpture, Minoan art, Anglo-Saxon art, the largest collection of modern Chinese painting in the Western world. The Western art collection includes painting, drawing, …show more content…
The reddish strokes in the space above the hat could represent anxiety or uncertainty, which is what his facially expression seems to present to the viewer as well. The grayish paint strokes represented in the negative space outside van Gogh’s image sharply contrasts with the orange, yellow and reddish colors in the facial area and hat, which adds to the overall boldness and vibrancy of the painting. In addition, the space appears to be illusionistic, as the painter depicts an illusion (van Gogh himself) of the three-dimensional spatial world on a two-dimensional