Menil Collection Project

Menil Basic Info/Visual Analysis/Meaning: When I visited the Menil, I was blown away by how the building has so much space compared to other museams. As I researched more into the infrustructure of the building I found out that Renzo Piano designed the building the way he did because the collector Dominique de Menil was thinking not only of a place to display her growing collection, but also a center for music, literature, theatre and cultural educational activities. De Menil thought that it would attract more attention and visitors if the Menil was built in an area surrounded by low residential housing. She intended that the building be flexible, open, and above all be illuminated with light. In order to accomplish the wishes of de Menil, Piano designed the roof made out of leaves of thin ferro-cement which would give both the free areas as well as the display rooms of the flat building light, to which additional lights could be easily attached. The building of the Menil itself is a long, flat, rectangular building that is in the center of urban homes. The building has numerous glass windows that has almost a sunroof-like covering above it. 

Artist Name: Renzo Piano
Date: 1982

Work of Art: Glider
Artist Name: Robert Rauschenburg
Date: 1962
Materials: Oil, Canvas, and Silkscreen inks
Size: 96 1/8 x 59 7/8
Visual Analysis: This piece is very large and seems to be, at least to me, visually appealing. Rauschenburg used materials such as oil, canvas, and some silkscreen inks to create this huge work of art. The colors that are incorporated into this piece are different shades of grey, black, white, and almost a grey-blue sort of color. In the painting there is a glider in the top right portion of the painting and an outlined 3D rectangular box at the bottom center. In my personal opinion the rest of the painting serves as a background that seems to be faded to allow the viewers to more easlisy locate the glider as well as the oulined box.

Meaning: This piece is called Glider and as shown in the top right portion of the painting one can see a glider which would make this painting abtract. The Cultural origin of Glider by Robert Rauschenburg was Ileana Sonnabend, New York.