Menil Collection RePost 4/23/12

Menil Collection Building Basic Info:

Artist’s Name: Renzo Piano

Date: 1982

Part 1:

The formal (visual) Analysis the museum campus has grown to include two satellite galleries to the main building: The structure seems to have utilized insubstantial and brace, among other materials in the assembly building has a sort of wonderful design and flow of the building many windows, giving it funky edge than other places I have seen in the Museum District..  It does have a balance and level of visually clarity to help you follow the curse and openness of the building. Two other buildings founded by the de Menils, but now operating as independent foundations complete the campus:

This Menil building has a nice structure and it seem unique in a weird way, I had a total different design in mind. Me and my boys went to Menil Building; the boy’s said that the trim looked like waves in the ocean.

Part 2

The reason why Renzo Piano designed the building, the solution was a roof of 'leaves' of thin ferro-cement which would span both the free areas as well as the display rooms of the flat building, and to which additional lights could be easily attached. Above this, a sealed superstructure contains the 'treasury'—an air-conditioned storage space for works of art not on display. The traditional timbering of the outside walls is a reference to the surrounding houses: 'Demonumentalization' was the motto.  The effect when you looking from the outdoors, it make you tunnel effect like you are surrounded by grass and forest, trees and naturals.

Work of Art

Artist’s Name: Picasso

Title: The women in red armchair

Date: 1929

Material : oil base warm colors

Size: 802x1088

1. This oil on canvas painting portrays a woman in a pastoral the focal point of the work is the central figure, a woman in a red dress." The women seem to leaning to one side. When you looking at the picture more to the right. "They consist of line, shape, space, color, light, and dark, which artists arrange in many different ways to achieve broader categories of design. These, in turn, consist of balance, order and proportion, and pattern and rhythm." The painting made me feel glamour and sexy
2. Nonrepresentational Cultural origin: Spanish