Assignment 2: Museum Analysis
1) Which museum did you visit? Univ. of Utah
2) Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme, period, geographic region, or topic) within the museum.
For this question, I chose Wasatch Mountains with Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake in the Foreground. This painting was created in 1877. I noticed that there’s a lot of water in the picture, last time I was at the Great Salt Lake (eight years ago), there wasn’t very much water. I don’t know if it’s because It might have been a different area, I don’t believe it’s that full anymore. I think this is cool because you could see the progress of time through this picture. Below the mountains, you can see Salt Lake City in the middleground of the picture, dim lights, …show more content…
This is an amazing piece, I couldn’t find very much on the artist from Wikipedia, but what inspired him to make this piece was an expedition which lead him to paint this piece of the Wasatch Mountains.
3) Give a brief, one paragraph description of a special, temporary exhibit (for help, ask museum staff what these are; they are usually in one of the first rooms).
My fiance and I were in the exhibit for a good 10 minutes rearranging things, reading the signs saying to “create something new”. We were using teamwork by putting me on his shoulders to put stuff where it was absurd to put things. I think it was pretty cool that the whole point of the project was to use teamwork and alter what is already there. What I thought was really interesting was how elaborate this project was but how simple it is simultaneously. There is infinite potential for this project. I was wondering why the pieces were only black and white, but I understand why they didn’t use color, their description of their work said that they didn’t want this to be categorized. Putting colors on these pieces people would have thought differently and put the colors according to what they thought would look better but with it just being black and white there wasn’t really like thinking about it you’re like oh that would look absurd. This project reimagined
2) Describe at least one of the permanent collection exhibits on a theme, period, geographic region, or topic) within the museum.
For this question, I chose Wasatch Mountains with Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake in the Foreground. This painting was created in 1877. I noticed that there’s a lot of water in the picture, last time I was at the Great Salt Lake (eight years ago), there wasn’t very much water. I don’t know if it’s because It might have been a different area, I don’t believe it’s that full anymore. I think this is cool because you could see the progress of time through this picture. Below the mountains, you can see Salt Lake City in the middleground of the picture, dim lights, …show more content…
This is an amazing piece, I couldn’t find very much on the artist from Wikipedia, but what inspired him to make this piece was an expedition which lead him to paint this piece of the Wasatch Mountains.
3) Give a brief, one paragraph description of a special, temporary exhibit (for help, ask museum staff what these are; they are usually in one of the first rooms).
My fiance and I were in the exhibit for a good 10 minutes rearranging things, reading the signs saying to “create something new”. We were using teamwork by putting me on his shoulders to put stuff where it was absurd to put things. I think it was pretty cool that the whole point of the project was to use teamwork and alter what is already there. What I thought was really interesting was how elaborate this project was but how simple it is simultaneously. There is infinite potential for this project. I was wondering why the pieces were only black and white, but I understand why they didn’t use color, their description of their work said that they didn’t want this to be categorized. Putting colors on these pieces people would have thought differently and put the colors according to what they thought would look better but with it just being black and white there wasn’t really like thinking about it you’re like oh that would look absurd. This project reimagined