Menil Collection

                                              



                                                                                  

                Renzo Piano (1982)
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I believe the purpose for this Menil was to show the talent of local Houston artist. When I went to the Menil building the first thing I notice was the outside beauty. It was white and clean looking , I love how the light shine through to give the inside of the building and amazing glow. The feel of the building on the outside was a really quite and relaxing feeling. Just made me want to hurry up and get on the inside. I like all the color paintings and photos.




            
                  Danny Lyon Lianito, New Mexico 1970
                    The Menil Collection , Houston Tx
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This photo is representational because the image is very clear. This photo caught my attention because I love how it is back and white the color defines the history the artist was trying to betray. I could tell the political statement Lyon was addressing in this photo as he did in a lot of his work. I love how he could describe Art and history in one photo. The photo is very unique because I like how he shows the building, truck, and nature. Im not sure all he was trying to say in the photo, it looks like even if your life looks black and white like the person in the photo you still have to come outside and smell the fresh breeze of nature.

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.

Artist that draw

      Robert Dennis Crumb                          Keep on Truckin'  1968


                   The initial image for the famous Zap Comix in which Crumb became enormously famous through ought the whole nation. The image it self was so popular Crumb had a difficult controlling the 'hype' and maintaining patient because of the vast usage of his image in clothing, posters and even ads. Crumb even became annoyed due to the massive movement he had created through the image in a comic book. Crumb stated: "I became acutely self-conscious about what I was doing. Was I now a "spokesman" for the hippies or what? I had no idea how to handle my new position in society! ... Take Keep on Truckin'... for example. Keep on Truckin'... is the curse of my life. This stupid little cartoon caught on hugely. There was a D.J. on the radio in the seventies who would yell out every ten minutes: "And don't forget to KEEP ON TR-R-RUCKIN'!" Boy, was that obnoxious! Big feet equals collective optimism. You're a walkin' boy! You're movin' on down the line! It's proletarian. It's populist. I was thrown off track! I didn't want to turn into a greeting card artist for the counter-culture! I didn't want to do 'shtick'—the thing Lenny Bruce warned against. That's when I started to let out all of my perverse sex fantasies. It was the only way out of being "America's Best Loved Hippy Cartoonist"