Menil Visit

Menil Collection building Basic info:

Artist’s Name (if available): Renzo Piano

Date: 1982

Formal (Visual) Analysis –Describe the building visually and be as descriptive and detailed as possible. What are the size, colors, materials, etc?

- The building was not as big as other museums. It has a soft gray color with white panels on top of the building. It doesn’t have any extraordinary designs. However, the lawn was beautiful with a few designs on the grass. I enjoyed the environment that surrounded The Menil.

Finding Meaning- Why do you think Renzo Piano designed the Menil building in the way that he did? What  effect does it have on you looking at it from the outdoors and experiencing it from the inside?

- I think Piano designed the building with the intentions of making the building blend with the houses that surrounded the building. The houses weren’t fancy or elegant. He didn’t want to design something that will not fit in the area. When you look at it from the outside, you see a simple, not too big or small building. However, when you go inside it is big.

Work of Art

Artist’s Name (if available): Rene Magritte

Title: The Rape

Date:         1934

Materials: Canvas

Size:

Formal (Visual) Analysis –Describe the piece visually and be as descriptive and detailed as possible. What are the size, colors, materials, or sounds? 

- The piece with quit hilarious. From a far distant, you see a women's strange face. When you walk closer, then you'll see what it actually is. The eyes are the boobs, the bellybutton is the nose and the middle part with the pubic hair is the mouth. The hair is just added on top to make it more realistic.

Finding Meaning- Use titles, text, symbols, how the subject matter represented (abstract, representational, nonrepresentational), role of the art, the cultural origin, or any other info you can to try to find the meaning of the work.

-By the title id say is representational. Rene Magritte was a Belgian artist who drew realistic and illusions paintings. The Rape is few of his examples. It represents the anatomy of the women’s body and transforming it as a picture of a face. The breasts are the eyes, the stomach and bellybutton is the middle section of the nose and the middle part with the pubic hair is the mouth.