What is an Art Museum? Europe cluster. Please answer the
following questions about your museum as a comment to this post. Do
not forget to interact with each other. Due Monday, May 21. Have fun
exploring!
1.
your name and the name of the Museum
you explored.
2.
Museum actual location.
3.
Date museum opened to public.
4.
Museum mission (or purpose. You may find this in the home page, or you
may have to look further).
5.
List 5 of the museum’s collections and 2 of it’s
special exhibits.
6.
List 5 of the museum’s significant pieces.
After “wandering through” the museum:
7.
Analyze, with a specific example for each: the
strengths and weaknesses of this museum’s site function.
8.
Analyze, with a specific example for each: the
strengths and weaknesses of this museum’s curated collections.
9.
Consider the location of the museum, and history
of the country in which it is located: how do the collections reflect this
history? Give a specific example.
10.
Would you want to visit this actual museum? Why, or why not?
11.
Respond specifically to at least one other post,
by addressing that person by name. How
to respond? Note where your museums have
things in common, or not. Note where
your perspective is similar to, or different from, another’s.
1. The National Gallery
ReplyDelete2. Located in Trafalgar Square, London England
3. Open to public in 1838
4. "The Gallery's aim is to care for the collection, to enhance it for future generations, primarily by acquisition, and to study it, while encouraging access to the pictures for the education and enjoyment of the widest possible public now and in the future."
5. SPECIAL EXHIBITS- **Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude.
**Titan's "Diana and Castillo"
USUAL EXHIBITS- 13th-15th Century
-16th Century
-17th Century
-18th Century
-19th-20th Century
6. Significant Pieces: -Titan, "Noli Me Tangere," about 1514
-Vermeer, "A Young Girl Standing at a Virginal," about 1670-2
-Titan, "Bacchus and Ariadne," about 1520-3
-Cezanne, "Bathers (Le Grandes Baigneuses)," about 1894-1905
-Seurat, "Bathers at Asnieres," about 1884
7. THE STRENGTHS: It has accessible tabs on every page to navigate through the entire site. You can click a category and then find what you're looking for in the sub, or sub-sub categories. It uses plain language and most paintings have very detailed descriptions like "A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal." There are three paragraphs telling about this specific piece.
THE WEAKNESSES: I was unable to find a virtual tour of the gallery which made it difficult to wander through. Also, the gallery does not specify if it has permanent exhibits. It seems to rotate very often. Plus, I found it difficult to decipher whether they are talking about a gallery, or just one painting. They should be a little more specific as to what they mean.
8. STRENGTHS OF COLLECTIONS: For each featured collection, they go really in depth of the artist's life, works, and specific paintings. They offer an audio guide telling about the artist. Also, you can view a few of the paintings on display. On Turner's gallery page, external links are offered for more information along with all of the things I listed above.
WEAKNESSES OF COLLECTIONS: I was unable to view all of Turner's paintings. If you went to his gallery in person, you would have to book tickets beforehand, and it is only around for such a brief amount of time. Although a brief biography is included, I think they should add a little more about about Turner and his life to better understand him as an artist since the gallery is dedicated to him.
9. Originally, they did not specifically collect anything, but in 1855, Sir Charles Eastlake ensured the gallery's collection of Italian paintings expanded. In 1871, the museum gained 77 new works which were primarily Dutch and Flemish works. British works were displayed separately. Obviously since it IS in Great Britain.
10. Personally, I would not really like to visit this museum. I will admit, it is absolutely stunning and beautiful, full of inspiring works, and free admission for most galleries, I would not really choose this museum over other museums. I am more into modern art. I really like more modernized works because I find it easier to relate to. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the works they have in the National Gallery because they tell their own stories influenced by the historical time period, I would just much rather visit somewhere like the Walker Art Museum.
11. pending.
11. Cori, I feel like we had the same likes and dislikes. Each piece they showed on the Belvedere site had an in depth description - two paragraphs at least - but the feeling of a complete gallery was missing because you could not view pieces together or view much of one collection. My site also had easy accessible tabs. You would not want to visit this museum because the building is so over the top inside, haha.
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Great work Cori! I'm looking forward to other students interacting with you and learning from you. Very good use of specific examples and thoughtfulness. I wonder if you might like to visit the new Barnes Museum? ;-)
ReplyDelete1. Callie virtually visited the Belvedere. The museum itself is an eyesore, but the art is fantastic
ReplyDelete2. The museum is located in Vienna Austria.
3. The Belvedere is comprised of an Upper and Lower palace both of which were built in the early 1700’s for Prince Eugene of Savoy and open to the public.
4. There is no explicitly stated mission to be found, so I wrote one: The Belvedere preserves Austria’s cultural history by maintaining and restoring its historical buildings and the artwork housed within them.
5. Five of the museum’s permanent collections are Medieval Art, F.X. Messerschmidt, Historicism, Gustav Klimt, and Contemporary Art. There are currently two special exhibits: Gold and Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk.
6. Some significant pieces located at the Belvedere include: Gustav Kilmt’s “The Kiss” (1907-1908) and the largest collection of his work, Jacques Louis David’s portrait of Napoleon on his horse (1801), nothing else they show you online :d
7. NEGATIVE: The museum provides a great deal of historical context for its collections though it could clarify some details of the history of the actual complex. I had to look elsewhere for specific dates and it skips over what seem like significant events. POSITIVE: The website design and the pictures of the buildings are fabulous. It is easy to navigate and I feel it draws you to the physical museum by not showing too much.
8. NEGATIVE: That being said, I wish the site listed, even if it did not show, all the pieces each collection includes so it would seem more cohesive. It should either show a preview of a collection or a sub-collection. It kind of shows you a mix of both and it feels unsatisfactory. POSITIVE: The F.X. Messersschmidt collection of character heads is better understood because you are given a background on the artist at the time he created those pieces.
9. The museum itself and its collections are very nationalistic. The site describes the importance of the Viennese Academy and boasts about the beauty of their city. As mentioned above, the building was constructed for a Prince of Austria. It housed imperial collections for the greater part of its history. Its contemporary exhibitions expand beyond just Austrian artists, but they make up the majority of its permanent collections.
10. I would like to visit the museum in person because I want to see the full collections and how they are arranged in the palaces. The whole complex is so grand with stables and gardens… And from the Upper Belvedere there is apparently the most gorgeous view of the city. It seems you need to go to get the full effect.
Museum settings are important to our appreciation of the art, it seems. Nice work with your analysis and writing the mission statement. Should you submit that to the museum? It looks like they skip the whole Modern phase of art in their collections...I wonder, is that because of the political turmoil of the early 20th century for Austria?
Delete1. Mitchell, and I explored the Museum Of Modern Art also known as MOMA.
ReplyDelete2. Its located on West 53rd Street in New York
3. The museum was opened to the public on November 20th 2004
4. "The purpose of The Museum of Modern Art Archives is to organize, preserve, and make accessible records not in current use and to collect documentation relevant to the work of the institution, including pictures and papers"- MOMA.
5. Two special exhibits include Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of language, and Taryn Simon A living man declared dead. But other collections include Exquisite Corpses; drawing and Disfiguration, Shaping Modernity 1880-1980, and Contemporary galleries 1980-now.
6. The Study Of Perspective(Ai Weiwei), Spider Boot Antipersonal Mine Foot Protection System(Gad Shannan), Figure in the Garden(Katharina Fritsch), Shaping Modernity(Charles Rennie Mackintosh), Painting and Sculpture II(Jackson Pollock)
7. This Museum website was slightly tricky to maneuver around, there is part of the website that is called PS1 and it takes you to a completely different part that's still the museum. But it did let you look at a lot of different art and the exhibits.
8. This museum holds a lot of different art, I like it because it has a lot of photographs as well, Aiweiwei is in the museum which I thought was cool because we learned about him recently. But they also have a wide collection of sculpture and a lot of cubism art. But there is also a lot of basic sketch art in this museum which I didnt find that interesting.
9. The location plays a big role in this museum because its pretty much right in the center of New York. In the city of New York there is a lot of different culture and ideas that are floating around. This creates a wide variety in art and I think the museum did a good job of collecting that, all of their art seems to have a different spin on it.
10. Yes I would, when I was looking at the gallery online I realized how much art there actually was in the museum. You can only look at a good amount of it online but there was still so much more that I would have wanted to look at.
Mitch, hey- can you repost this on the American museum blog post comment area? You've posted this in the European cluster! Thanks!
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ReplyDelete1. Acropolis Museum
2. Located in Athens Greece
3. Opened up to the public in 2007 when completed
4. While I was not able to find a specific mission I think that the purpose of this museum is to expand and thrive and show its visitors "a day in the life of The Acropolis". They have online pairing with Google art to show the museum in different dimmensions so that anyone across the world can witness the beauty of the Acropolis.
5. 1) The hall of slopes of the Acropolis: "The Gallery of the Slopes of the Acropolis houses finds from the sanctuaries that were founded on the slopes of the Acropolis, as well as objects that Athenians used in everyday life from all historic periods"
2)The Archaic Gallery: "For the first time, visitors have the opportunity to view exhibits from all sides as three-dimensional exhibits."
3)The Parthenon Gallery: "visitors are informed on how democratic bodies functioned in the 5th century BC."
4)Propylaia, Athena Nike, Erechtheion: "For the first time ever, it is possible to view the coffered ceiling of the Propylaia and the sculptures from the parapet of the temple of Athena Nike, and finally, the C.aryatids – or Korai of the Erechtheion...The main monuments that constitute the Classical Acropolis are the Propylaia, the temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion."
5)From the 5th c. BC to the 5th c. AD: "Reliefs of Athenian decrees, impressive portraits, Roman copies of classical masterpieces and depictions of philosophers and historical figures are the exhibits covering the period from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD."
1) There was only one exhibition the i was able to find beside the collections and it was only temporary but it was "PERICLES, SON OF XANTHIPPOS" and it was the first temporary exhibition at the Acropolis. It provided information about Pericles and was curated by Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis.
6. 1) the statue of Prokne, daughter of King Pandion of Attica, which illustrates the dramatic moment of her decision to kill her son, Itys, in order to punish her husband.
ReplyDelete2) Artemis Brauronia was the Goddess protecting expectant mothers and women in confinement. Her main sanctuary was located in Brauron, in Attica.
3)The frieze consisted of 115 blocks. It had a total length of 160 meters and was 1.02 meters high. Some 378 human figures and deities and more than 200 animals, mainly horses, are presented in the process. Groups of horses and chariots occupy most of the space on the frieze.
4)The west pediment illustrates the dispute between Athena and Poseidon for the claim of the land of Attica, a legendary fight that resulted in Athena’s victory.
5) The east pediment above the temple entrance depicted the birth of the Goddess Athena from the head of her father, Zeus, in the presence of the Olympic gods.
7. Strengths: The site has very detailed descriptions of hours and restaurants and things that families and kids could do. It shows many pictures of the Acropolis so that viewers online can see what the museum has to offers. The exhibits that are offered online give very specific detail and picture and all you have to do is click on the collection and it will give you pictures and information. Weaknesses: The site gives more information about what families can do at the museum eating wise and game wise than about the actual exhibits. I felt like they did not put enough information about all the pieces of art. Also I didn't think I was learning enough about the art. I just learned about deals and numbers and online viewing.
8. Strengths: For each collection I was able to see the pieces within the collection and it gave full detail of what the collection entailed and it gave background information about the Greek god or Greek background and it helped me understand the art more in depth.
Weaknesses: it did not tell me about the artist or curator of each collection. That made it hard for me because I would have searched more by that artist or have been able to understand it in more detail. I was also surprised that they only showed one exhibit and it was temporary, I wanted to see what exhibits were currently there.
9. I think that the collections really reflect the history of Athens in the sense that so many of the collections are about the buildings of Athens and the Greek god's. I like that they give historical backgrounds to each collection because I think it adds to the history of the museum and Greece. So many of the pieces come from historical background and the surroundings of Athens it's cool to see for example "It has been argued that the temple had an earlier building phase (570 BC), involving the poros sculptures that are now assigned to the Hekatompedon, while the marble sculptures were associated with a renovation by the sons of Peisistratos. It is possible, however, that the temple was built and given its marble sculpted decoration in the last decade of the 6th century BC." this was a breif description given with the collection of The pediment of the Gigantomachy from the Archaic temple of the Athena Polias (Archaios Naos). 525-500 BC
ReplyDelete10. I would like to visit this museum at some pint only because it has amazing quality and beauty and also to see if there is more than is offered on the website. I was almost a little disappointed with the online viewing options for the collections so I want to see if the actual museum can redeem itself.
11. Cori, I thought that your post was amazing. it helped me a lot with my post actually so THANKS!! I think we were similar in the strength and weaknesses of the collections because we both wanted more information about the artists. We were different in our opinion to go see our museums because she is more interested in modern art which I can definitely relate to where as my museum I just want to see if it lives up to its name. We also differed in the fact that she wanted more from the museum where as I wanted more from the website also it sounds like the website she searched had more information on the artist which I would have liked.
Such thorough work Zoe...I wonder if you feel like you were really virtually there, though I know you want to go in person and see the real art! Did you find info on the website that addressed their longing to house some originals that are currently in the British Museum (and Athens has plaster replicas of)?
DeleteI think that you'll need to do some more study abroad in college!
1. Rijksmuseum
ReplyDelete2. Jan Luijkenstraat 1, 1071 CJ Amsterdam
3. Opened in 1885
4. "At the Rijksmuseum, art and history take on new meaning for a broad-based, contemporary national and international audience.As a national institute, the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages onwards, and of major aspects of European and Asian art.The Rijksmuseum keeps, manages, conserves, restores, researches, prepares, collects, publishes, and presents artistic and historical objects, both on its own premises and elsewhere."
5. Regular Exhibits: Highlights of the Golden Age
Special Exhibits: Ottomania, Pure Luxury on Paper: the most beautiful Japanese surimono prints from private donations, Dutch Flowers
6. Significant Pieces: "The Night Watch" (Rembrandt), "The Dollhouse" (A 17th century Dutch dollhouse, one of the few remaining in existence), "Montmajour" (Van Gogh), Wedding Gown(a wedding gown from 1759, creator unknown), "The Jewish Bride" (Rembrandt)
7. STRENGTHS: There were a lot of detailed descriptions of the artwork and other names for some pieces were listed that are less known. Such as the Night Watch was originally called "The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch".
WEAKNESSES: Finding specific artists was kind of hard. Just finding the page that listed them was difficult in the first place but then when you went there the names were listed oddly such as Rembrandt was listed under his actual last name of Rijn which he is not known by.
8. STRENGTHS: They have a lot of art work in general. There is whole section full of just any type of art you could think of from just general painting,to textiles, to pottery.
WEAKNESSES: They don't seem to have a lot of art from other parts of the world besides the Netherlands. They have the occasional visit from art from other countries, but the majority of the time it is just European art.
9. I think just the fact that these collections are intact is incredible. I would have thought that they would have been partially lost during World War II, but they were protected which allows them to still be available to us today.
10. I would want to visit this museum despite its obvious flaws. I think that being in a museum with such a specifc type of art would allow you to focus on just that as opposed to looking at a ton of different types of art.
11. Callie your museum sounds a bit similar to mine in the way that the art works. Both seem to have a huge focus on art from there part of the world as opposed to other parts of the world. I think it would be interesting to go to both and compare them not really for the art but for the set up of both. Although mine isn't said to have an amazing view, but who knows what it will have once its renovations are finished in 2013.
it may have been odd to have the artists listed as such, but it was a move of logic on their half. the name of that being was Blah Blahee Blahson, but his nickname was Blahie. So... in the books, in the exact era, the name does make sense.
DeleteSo, they have little regular exhibits and lots of temporary? Though you wish they had a broader collection, do you think it's valuable for a culture to specifically preserve it's own artistic history, as is the Rijksmuseum's mission?
DeleteHow was this art protected during WWII? I'm so curious!
1. I am Alex Hartwig, and I went to the online Pizzale degli Uffizi,
ReplyDelete2. Pizzale Degli Uffizi 6, 50122 Firenze 055 294883
3.The Long Uffizi and the River Overlook was completed in 1565. the Vaseri corridor was finished in 1565. it starts from Palazzo Vecchio, it crosses Via della ninna( a covered Bridge) and decends in a long stair case near Arno(over a porch). coninues in District Oltrarno passes in front of Santa Felicia to Bobol Gardens and from there to Plazzo Pitti.
4. US Education Dept. "the mission of the educational deptartment founded in 1970 is to promote awareness of the public at state museums of different even if its main actuvity is aimed at schools."
5. the uffizi gallery: "the gallery of tapestries" march 20, 2012-june 3, 2012 is one special exhibit. it's on the epiphanies of fabric.
-Ties of Professor impossible 4.17.12-10.6.12
-19th and 20th century 15.05.12-10.06.12
-japan land of enchantment 4.3.12-7.1.12
-japan land of enchantment line and color "
-land of elegance of the memory "
-Fabulae Pictae 16.5.12-9.16.12 * special exhibit
-the gallery of tapestries 3.20.12-6.3.12 * special exhibit
6.
-autoritratto 1821, S. Rossi,
-niccolo'di pitro gerini crocicfictione fra dolenti e quattro angeli c1395-00
-huangsheng looking at birds 2011 inchistro su cork ?
-niccolo'di pitro gerini san nicola e san lorenzo 2nd meta' XIVsec
7. a weakness of the website would be to think initially thatthe site only encases the Uffizi, because it has a lot, and a lot of exhibits to see from others in the near area. collections, images of villas, museums this site holds is a strength.
8. The weakness is that I cannot view anything but the cover shot of the exhibit online. At least of the Tapestries, if not all.
9. the tapestries exhibit reflects the location of the museum. Firenze, Italy. Not only was it made in the land, it is key to capturing the esque of the works around that area and time.
10 I would want to visit for the ancient apsects of the works, all of the signs from ET's would be extrememly visible if such wwere to pop up, as in DaVinci's works. I would not because of the cost of the trip.
11. Cori's post was very helpful as a stencil/outline for the project.
I love your use of the partial word "esque". Pretend you could go for free, would you?!
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