Virtual Museam HW

 

Well first off all i thought that this virtual museam was amazing. i was able to navigate and find so many diiferent pieces of art along with sculptures. the resources that the website has seems infinate. you could even search a piece of art that you are interested in to me it seemed like google excdpt for art. well in searching the sight i came across these two pictures from archaeological fieldwork back in 1894 and 1895 by a french egyptologist  jacques de morgan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art began excavating the site in 1990 and has returned annually since 1992. i really like egyption art and anything really that has to do with archaeological work in egypt. which is what prompted me to immediately choose these two pictures to write a little about. i thought it also corralated a bit with the video that we saw in class on 2/29/12 when the guy beagn speaking of egyption art. these two pictures really resemble what he was talking about in the video. it also corralates with what we've been learning in class about lines. to me these picture look like OUTLINES because they are so 2D

The MET Assignment

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)                            Henri Charles Manguin (French, 1874–1949)
La Coiffure 1907                                                           La Coiffure 1905

Oil on canvas; 45 5/8 x 35 1/16 in. (116 x 89 cm)       Oil on canvas; 45 5/8 x 35 1/16 in. (116 x 89 cm)

This is such an interesting post. Since visiting the MET is currently not an option a virtual visit would be the next best thing. When I first went on the website I used the link where I could “search all of their collections”. Upon first glance I felt like it was too overwhelming. There were a lot of options to choose from to minimize the 348,257 pieces of art. It did take me a little while to figure out how to use all these options to my advantage.

I love that I can go in and see certain pieces that closely resemble each other. With the touch of the mouse I was able to pull up paintings like Henri Matisse’s la Coiffure and Henri Charles Manguin la Coiffure. Both of these paintings were created at about the same time in history. I later realized that la Coiffure in French means the hair salon. What caught my attention were the similarities in these paintings. They both show the hair stylist dressed in a provocative dress working on the hair of a nude female. The nude female is relaxed on some oversized pillows. While they both used the same design there are also some distinct differences. Manguin uses a lot more detail and vibrant colors than Matisse does, and his work seems to be a bit more realistic. It seems the two were very closely related. They were part of les Faurves, and were real good friends. I am pretty certain I would not have been able to make this connection if I had made this a personal visit to the museum.

Musuem Assignment

Charles Angrand
French, 1854-1926
1892
The Harvesters
Oil on Canvas

The canvas that used is a pretty nice size. The colors are very earth tones. They are very cool and natural looking. The colors make the picture look very realistic. The oil used on the canvas actually leaves a textured mark with each brush stroke made by the artist. This piece of art is composed of numerous short brushstrokes that individually creates each of the objects in the picture. If you were to look art the drawing close up all you would see is a variety of tiny, short dot-like brush strokes that overlap with many colors that seem to change once it starts forming another object. For example the grass and the trees are composed of darker colors then you will see they colors get lighter when a person is being depicted.
 This piece is representational not only because of it's title but mainly because the painting clearly depicts a moment in a day that harvesting is taking place by harvesters. On a day which seems like a very good day to be outside to do the task. You don't see a lot of sunshine by the colors used. It seems like a warm but cool day. The colors do not change drastically or abruptly. The changes are very subtle and gradual.
The objects in the picture are not really contour but are outlined. This picture is very similar to the drawing we briefly discussed in class by Vincent Van Gogh "Starry Night". The picture is all about the lines. They all seem to be short but they tend to get thicker and or wider or the opposite depending on what is being depicted. You can actually see and visualize the movements of the harvesters. Them bending over to pick up, putting things in the bags, and dumping what they have collected into the wagon. In my opinion everything is depicted perfectly, naturally, and realistically in this painting. The picture is calming and very relaxing.
I believe the main reason of the artist composing this painting was to paint an actual and realistic day in time. That shows exactly what takes place in harvesting.

Online museum visit (blog #5)

I hope you all enjoyed the Museum of Fine Arts and seeing art in person rather than on a screen ( a very different experience). Unfortunately some of us have trouble making it across town to see the museum much less travel the world to see great art. Luckily today we have at our fingertips the ability to "see" many things online that would have otherwise required a plane ticket. Now with many museum's collections posted online you can see so much art for free anytime, and I want you to familiarize yourself with these great resources.  For this week's homework I want you all to spend a good amount of time, at least 30 minutes, exploring the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York  website  as if you were actually there looking for things that interest  you. The website allows you to search all of their collections by materials, time, etc or even look at a time line of art history . For the blog homework I want you to find at least 2 works of art that appeal to you and respond to them or respond to the website as a whole. (You could answer questions like, was the site easy to navigate? Were you able to learn enough about what you were interested in ? etc)

                                                 Metropolitan Museum of Art  in New York

Museum Project

Artist: Damien Hirst (English, Born 1965)

Title: End Game

Date: 2000-2004

Materials: Glass, Stainless steel, human skeletons, and medical equipment

Size: 77 x 148 x 20

I really enjoyed my day at the museum. The talents of many artists were very fascinating. On my trip there  many displays caught my eye and had me amazed. But this one piece in particular. Yes at first I saw it as a simple display. Ive never been in a surgery room, but I imagine this is what it would look like from what people I know describe it as. When I first saw it I thought to myself am I still at the MFA? and then I began to look for the title. The display of art was very detailed. It showed all sorts of surgical instruments. I had to stare at it and think if the display was abstract, representational, or nonrepresentational and when I finally decided I thought due to the title it was representational. The human skeletons were at one point the body, the life, to a certain individual. From the looks of the skeletons it shows one male and one female. With the title and the 2 bodies I thought about how life isnt always guaranteed tomorrow. Like when we all get sick we tend to run to hospitals but in the end no matter how many instruments the scientific world uses, if its the end of the game for you then thats where you will end.

A Woman's Identity

Looking at this picture I see a woman in a business suit, in corporate America. Back in the late 1970's, mid 1980's women were just finding their spots next to the men in the job field. When I looked and did more research on Cindy Sherman I found that she was an American feminist. Not much to my surprise, since the work she did strictly shows women in various ways. This picture is from her work Film Stills (1977-1980) . She was trying to show the different types of women. There us no specific way of being a female, and from the series of photographs I can see Cindy portraying and testing the boundaries of what female identity is. In my personal opinion Cindy was all about "women can do it too". I loved the whole exhibit. This piece is definitely representational.