this paper is to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art and write a reaction paper about art works at the museum based on my impressions about them. To begin‚ I will start by giving you a little of background information about this interesting museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. It opened on February 20‚ 1872 and was originally located at 681 on Fifth Avenue. Also known as “The Met”‚ the museum is located on the eastern edge of Central
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Read the following extract from reading 2.2 ‘Benin antiquities at the British Museum’ and look at Plates 3.1.14 British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound‚ Benin City‚ 1897 and 3.2.24 Display of Benin bronzes in the Sainsbury African Galleries‚ the British Museum‚ 2005 in the AA100 Illustration Book. How do the different contexts of display reflect different attitudes to the art of Benin? At the end of the 19th century‚ Africa was
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School of Computing E-COMMERCE (ECRET) Museum Guidance System Individual Element Student name Student Id Word Count Modhitha Iroshan Weerasundara mudiyanselage 632831 1360 Page | 1 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Success of the proposed mobile application ...................................................................................... 3 2.1. Information
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our lives. I had a chance to visit two museums during my fall break‚ and I enjoyed this event very much. Philadelphia Museum of Art made great impression on me as usual. I was there several times before‚ and I really love this place. This time the exhibition of the African Art was very memorable to me because I never seen such collection before as we don’t have them a lot in the country where I’m from. This exhibition was organized by the Seattle Art Museum‚ and it took an "insider’s" approach to
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Tanner Wiest Period 1 2/26/12 Enrichment Utah Museum of Fine Arts On February 25‚ 2012‚ I went to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. There was a traveling art exhibit from Syracuse University Art Galleries that would be there till March 6.. The exhibit contained eighteen pieces of artwork by Georges Rouault. The exhibition is of his Cirque de Letoile Filante project‚ which consists of pieces centered on the single theme of a circus. His style of art would fall under the
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the world. Thus‚ this country has been scientifically advanced for several centuries now and the Indian scientists have made numerous path-breaking discoveries in the field of science. The various fields in which the Indian scientists have excelled include mathematics‚ warfare‚ geometry‚ astronomy‚ medicine‚ space science‚ physics‚ chemistry‚ botany‚ etc. The astonishing inventions of the Indian scientists have played a vital role in the overall development of the country. They have also made
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MC12110 REACTION PAPER Tracing back to its roots‚ mind museum was offiacially opened to public some time on 2012‚ many people somehow loved it because it was the very first science museum of its scale and scope in the Philippines. it offered alot of knowledge giving facts to its every visitor. based also on its offiacial site‚ "the Mind Museum would like to help give the next generation of Filipinos this currency of mind. While The Mind Museum is not a substitute for schools‚ we would like to help
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A interesting visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art I have recently visit Metropolitian Museum of Art. This is the first time I visit museum in New York city‚ my first impression for this art museum is tremendous and inspiring. It’s a multi-culture museum‚ there are sculptures and paintings from all around the world. After two hours of touristing‚ I was attracted by a painting‚ which is located in second floor‚ in American wing section. This painting is oil-on-canvas in 1851 by artist Emanuel
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ATIVE ANALYSIS PART TWO It is not surprising that Steven Vincent was stopped by Oldenburg’s Store sculptures because the Guggenheim museum is one of the last places you would expect to find his objects‚ especially those that were originally intended for his storefront in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan. The irony of ‘the commodity object as art versus the art object as commodity’ set much of the stage for Oldenburg’s Store because he‚ like Allan Kaprow‚ understood that art changes accordingly to
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INTRODUCTION Science (Latin‚ scientia‚ from scire‚ “to know”)‚ term used in its broadest sense to denote systematized knowledge in any field‚ but usually applied to the organization of objectively verifiable sense experience. The pursuit of knowledge in this context is known as pure science‚ to distinguish it from applied science‚ which is the search for practical uses of scientific knowledge‚ and from technology‚ through which applications are realized. For additional information‚ see separate
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