Monday, February 27, 2012
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
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The Birth of the Virgin
ReplyDeleteFra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, born by 1416–died 1484 Urbino)
Date:
1467
Medium:
Tempera and oil on wood
Dimensions:
57 x 37 7/8 in. (144.8 x 96.2 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Rogers and Gwynne Andrews Funds, 1935
This piece is very interesting once you take a deep look into it. The artwork has a large amount of detail for its time and has many of the important aspects that gave art realism. The line of the building and sculptures that make up the building have a harmonious flow. It gives further detail into the feelings of the people in that area. A look further down shows the people of the town with such detail that the city seems to be striving with energy and playfulness.
Terrace of the Capuchin Garden, Sorrento
Heinrich Reinhold (German, Gera 1788–1825 Albano)
Date:
1823 or 1824
Medium:
Oil on paper laid down on Masonite
Dimensions:
15 7/8 x 21 1/8 in. (40.3 x 53.7 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
This particular piece of art is one that emphasized nature over men. The detail in the tree combined with the atmospheric distortion in the back grounds brings emphases to the trees over all. Though there is a light point to catch your eye you are still tempted to keep your eyes moving around the page.
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