menil building

this building is very contemporary its has a lot of line qualityand repetition and rhythem.  I would say that it symmetrical design thebuilding is agray with white accent it kind of remind you of a little community just sit there like one of the old county town that I pass though when we go to Planterville.  The bottom picture remind me of waves from the sea  it like they are suppose to be rocking back and forth and the beams would be something like a boat.  It is really a nice building to go to see.

Menil Building

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Olga Tobreluts, Hercules, 1995. Courtesy of the artist

I like this photo the focal point of this would be the man holding the apple.  The photo has atmospheric perspective where the sky gets darker the futher it goes back, also the sands seem to get light the further it goes back.  I like how the artist put the red then the black next to the pale man, then the green trees are really green but the grass is lighter than the tree.  It to me balance with the rock on the left side and the tree on the right it is asymmetrical balance.   I also like the way that the man hair is the same colors as the boarder of the picture.  The rock if you really look at it look to me like a animal or a rabbit. This man is very muscler ans well proportion and the is represesentation form of art.

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  

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Big Campbell's Soup Can 19¢, 1962

The focal point of this painting would be the red background on the word Campbell. To me, this is representation art. It is an outline on a flat surface. There's a little shading at the top of the can. My daughter says that if you stare at it for a while, it looks like a one-eared dog. The vantage point of this can is the yellow dot in the middle of the can. There seems to be neither a time or motion going on. It's more like an icon than a symbol to me. Anyone else would look at this as just a can of soup, but it's art.

Untitled, Julie Mehretu

This painting caught my eye because the first thing i saw was a cat's face. Then I started seeing the circular motions of the painting and saw a lot of positive space. The focal point of this painting seems to be the bold black lines. The colors in this painting are the red, green, black, yellow, pink and blue. The texture seems to be 3-D; it seems to have a time and motion feel to it. There's a rhythm to this painting because  the strokes look a if they could be repeated over and over. To me, this painting is more abstract because of the name.  For these reasons, I like this painting.

Menil Collection Visit

The work of art that I chose from the Menil Collection was a relief sculpture from ancient Egypt around 1320-1200 B.C.  The work is a low relief sculpture depicting the Egyptian god Horus with his traditional staff and headdress.  The sculpture portrays Horus in the precise, flattened view that the Egyptian sculptors traditionally used and seems to have been created for the purpose of worship or the glorification of Horus, as the hieroglyphics inscribed into the limestone near Horus say "The beautiful Horus, the great god, lord of heaven, one who is foremost in Bahet(or Edfu)."  The sculpture also depicts many symbols that I have seen often in ancient Egyptian reliefs such as the ankh, but I am not sure what the meanings for these symbols are.  I unfortunately could not find an image of, or take a picture of this sculpture, or I would have included an image in my post.

The Menil Collection building was created by artist Renzo Piano in 1982.  The building seems to have utilized concrete and steel, among other materials in the construction.  I think the building has a sort of modern design and features many windows, giving it a much different design than the Museum of Fine Arts.  The elements on the outside of the building seem to bring a balance to it, making the building have a calm feel and in my opinion, making it seem more inviting.  I think that this was why Renzo Piano designed the building the way that he did, because to me the building for the Menil Collection is more inviting than the buildings for the Museum of Fine Arts; I think this may help more people go to see the art who may not otherwise because of the way some people have turned looking at art or going to a museum into something just for some people, when art should be for everyone.

Artists that Draw: Suh Se-ok

For this assignment I chose the artist Suh Se-ok, and his work titled "People". In the 1950s, Suh Se-ok began to encourage other artists inside and outside of the Mungnimhoe movement, which he was the leader of, to break free from the traditional styles and let their work become more abstract.  This abstractness is present in much of Se-ok's works, especially in the pieces such as "People"; he uses a blend of traditional ink painting and calligraphy to create this work, which seems to depict a chain of people linked by holding each other's hands.  The work was made by the drawing of the Chinese character for people with a bamboo brush and ink from traditional ink painting styles from Asia.  I believe that he uses the element of drawing in drawing the characters to help bring a more abstract feel to his work that might have been lost if he pursued another medium and not drawing.