Executive Summary The New York Metropolitan Museum of the Art is a non-profit institution with an established history as a behemoth of the artistic world. It was founded and maintains today the mission of “establishing and maintaining in the city of New York a museum and library of art‚ of encouraging and developing‚ the study of the fine arts‚ and the application of arts to manufacturing and practical life‚ of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects‚ and‚ to that end‚ of furnishing
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Can We Put a Price on Art and History? The most important consideration facing the person responsible for securing new works of art or artifacts for a museum is to preserve culture and history. Another purpose is to educate others who would like to learn about these certain subjects. Art demonstrates glimpses of history‚ or just new styles of art‚ which serve as inspiration to other artists and people. Artifacts from the past‚ show a realistic viewpoint of how a certain era of people lived‚ also
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art‚ partially due to the museums façade‚ a striking granite building (Figure 1)‚ designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art‚ which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum’s opening in 1931
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Rafael Correa Art 1301 Feb 19 2013 Art Museum Visit Art is an activity in which a person can express his or her ideas or emotions. Many artists have done greats sculptures‚ paintings‚ and other types of art. Each one of them expresses an idea or feeling on each piece of art that they make. In my opinion I believe every piece of art is beautiful no matter how it looks like‚ and what really matters is what it is trying to show to the world. I choose the painting named “Jefa” (Patronessas)‚
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discussed in class. Table at the Window‚ Pablo Picasso‚ 1919 7. A work of art made in the Renaissance. (hint: think 1400-beginning of the 1600’s) Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist‚ Giuliano Bugiardini‚ 1510s 8. A drawing. Drawing of the Chief Painter Abol Hasan‚ Mohammad Shah‚ 1842-66 9. A piece that would be considered “art for day-to-day living.” Comb‚ Indian‚ Karnataka‚ 18th Century 10. An Egyptian work of art. Mosque Lamp‚ Egypt. 1320 11. A painting by Jackson Pollock. (hint:
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Museum of Modern Art in New York Roxanne Briano The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is the world’s leading modern art. Its exhibits have been a major influence in creating and stimulating popular awareness of modern art and its accompanying diversity of its styles and movements. The museum’s outstanding collections of modern painting‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ and prints range from Impressionisms to current movements. Moreover‚ there are exhibits of modern architecture‚ industrial design‚ sculpture
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I attended the art museum at the Getty Center built on the mountain sides of north Los Angeles. While attending the Getty I chose to photograph the ’Madonna and Child’ along with ’Flowers Still Life’ and my textbook object was the Galatea. My first museum object the Madonna and Child was created by Luca Della Robbia in Florence‚ Italy during the mid 1400’s.It’s a picture that displays Madonna in a blue robe‚ sitting down‚ holding what seems to be her naked child and alongside is a person unknown
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for my ethnographic essay was The Museum of Modern Art‚ commonly known as the MoMA. I traveled to the museum on Saturday‚ March 6th‚ 2017 and arrived at 3:11 pm. Surprisingly this museum was quite small at least in comparison to the grand museums I’ve visited in the past. The exhibit that I focused on was their ongoing collection gallery that displayed art from the 1880’s through the 1950’s. I chose this particular exhibit because whilst walking through the museum that this was by far the MoMA’s most
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laboratories and study rooms which are given functionality through the servant spaces (Manrique‚ 11/08/04). This concept was practiced through out most of Kahn ’s career‚ but is most notable in his ingenious designs of the Salk Institute and Kimbell Art Museum. The Salk Institute located in La Jolla California is of the most unusual nature. The building is set up into two large towers separated by a large concrete courtyard. The building is arranged in this way because one side of it faces the ocean
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Every privately owned company’s goal is to minimize their costs as much as possible. Museums‚ which are operated similar to private companies‚ have the same goal. In order to decide where to allocate their capital a museum must asses some essential questions such as what attracts visitors to their museum‚ what is the opportunity cost to allocating capital to one resource over another and how the museum can maximize the use of the funds spent. These questions depend on many external‚ constantly changing
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