Essays on Museums

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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium "'THE CENSUS AT BETHLEHEM'". Google Cultural Institute, https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/zQKyGcrY3z1hKQ. The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) by Pieter Bruegel is a part of the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium as Bruegel was Flemish renaissance artist. The painting can be seen in great detail through Google Cultural Institute, which is very handy because, similarly to Bosch, Pieter Bruegel includes a lot of details and a diverse number of actions going on. Because of that the viewer may be looking at a painting for a long ...

Ancient pieces of art collection are usually hard to find. However, courtesy of the world’s leading museums, one can find assembled pieces of artwork that date back to over a thousand years ago. Among these museums is the famous Norton Simon Museum in California – United States. My visit to the museum was an amazing experience as an Art & Architecture student. This is because I happen to find and learn more about its history and the stellar collection of not only ancient European, US and Asian art but also the modern works that industrialist Norton Simon assembled. The Triumph ...

Nowadays we live in the era of high developed technologies. Different types of technologies penetrated in every sphere of our lives. Moreover, we cannot imagine our life without it. “Most of the civilized world wouldn’t know what to do with themselves without technology” ( Technology information, 2008). New developments in technologies have completely changed the ways people live and work. Many researchers call the modern times as the Information Age, Digital Age or New Media Age. All these definitions underline the importance of technologies and information for the modern society all over the world. In this essay I would ...

Tourism comes in many different shapes and sizes. Tourism can be international or national; it can even be relatively close to one’s home, as tourism is not defined by how far an individual goes, but by the fact that he or she has traveled and the types of activities that he or she participates in while gone from home (Wurzburguer , Pattakos & Pratt, 2008). Tourism can be measured a number of different ways using a number of different metrics; however, from a practical standpoint, tourism is generally understood as being domestic tourism, inbound international tourism, or outbound international tourism ( ...

Art-related disciplines are critical to educating citizens and students of every age. Nevertheless, the arts have declined significantly in schools and public participation. According to a recent study by Rabkin and Hedberg (2011), fewer eighteen-year-olds in a 2008 survey reported receiving arts instruction in their childhood than a similar age group surveyed in 1982. The research suggested that the provision of arts education dropped from 65% in 1982 to about 50% in 2008 (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011). Moreover, it included survey data gathered in 2002 and 1992 with each successive period indicating a severe decline in Americans’ access to arts ...

There is a connection between developing ideas and the creation of artworks. Media also plays a role in this process because people today cannot function without the influence of media. These spheres are interconnected and interrelated because of the fact that people live in ‘global village’ as Marshall McLuhan stated. Media plays a role in improvement of ideas because of its omnipresence and it has impact on people’s minds and on the process of creation. The fact that medium is the message, as McLuhan stated, supports the viewpoint that media is the extension of man and so is ...

Victoria and Albert Museum: Marketing

Introduction The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is located in London, England and is one of the largest museums of art and design in the world. The museum was founded in 1852 following the huge success of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The museum was founded as the Museum of Manufacturers, reflecting its original purpose of appealing to the working class in order to help educate them. In addition, the museum was meant to help inspire British manufacturers and developers. The museum was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899, after Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of ...

Art & Architecture

Introduction The work of Charles Baudelaire had a significant contribution on the concept of modernism particularly in his essay “The Painter of Modern Life”. Baudelaire’s influence on modernism was constructed from his criticism of art and urban space where he seeks for inherent beauty within the bustling landscape and transitional urban spaces. Before the publication of his work, Paris, France is undergoing a major industrialization phase, which served as a theatre for Baudelaire to redefine the context of modernism conveyed in his controversial verse (Tuman, 2010). The discussion explores the conception of urban modernism including the ways in ...

The Museum of Modern Art

There are multiple not for profit organizations that are established to cater or work for the welfare of society. These organizations are operating in different disciplines to support community promoting creativity and skills. The main idea of the not for profit organization is to assist the society to grow in a progressive manner. It may be through providing broader platform, funding, advisory and other ways to support. Similarly, the organization named MoMA is a not for profit organization that is establish to promote creativity of the citizen. It has provided a platform for the individuals to share their creativity.In ...

San Diego – prepare to see a little Mexico in the USA, on the southern coast of the wonderful and peaceful Pacific Ocean. Being a mix not only of the American and Mexican cultures but also their climates, you can experience here something really special. From the “spirit of Spanish Colonial times maintained in Balboa Park”(Alexandr) with its Botanical Garden, historical, artistic and anthropological museums, and the most famous of all – San Diego Zoo to simply relaxing or learning to surf on the sunny beaches – all of these and many more you can do in the always hot San ...

Exhibition Critique

The critique at hand presents impressions and critical comments regarding the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.. The analysis was done on the virtual museum tour provided on the YouTube (“A Woman’s Touch: The National Museum of Women in the Arts”). Despite the huge difference between the physical visit and the virtual one, there is still an opportunity to understand and assess the exhibitions that refer to the major subject of the role of women in the arts and history. The most astonishing fact is that many people, even well-educated, are used to the ...

Introduction

As the internet continues to grow over the years, more opportunities continue to crop up for exploitation. The chances are limitless, and rewards are unimaginable. Learning a few skills is essential, but finding a niche and capitalizing on it allows a person to tap into unquantifiable profits and growth. One of the niches that have evolved with the growth of the internet is online merchandising. Innumerable companies have taken up the open platform of online space to market and sell their products. However, some of them have developed unique ways to beat the competition and remain profitable. In this ...

Bergamo is one of the most historic cities in the Lombard region of Italy. The city has been undercapitalizing on the tourist industry, bringing in marginal revenues in part because of the relative location to Milan, a city larger and better suited to massive scale tourism. In fact, Bergamo is usually avoided by tourists, except for those taking guided tours, mainly because Milan has the main airport in the region and because it is believed that the city has little to offer, which simply is not true. Recently, the joint cooperation of Slovenia and Italy to expand upon the ...

Cultural Diversity

In today’s society, during a new millennium, one can observe exceedingly great differences between cultures and lifestyles. All across the world there are, in fact, many various cultures that should be tasted by those who are eager to understand the whole universe. Though people can vary to the extreme, it is differences, but not the similarities that form strength. The thing is that the beauty of the world consists in the diversity of its people. Diversity is not just a characteristic of life, but an integral part of human existence such as air and water. On the one ...

The distinction between high and low culture is associated with a distinction between what can be considered artistic, or challenging, and the type of culture that is generally more popular with the masses. The root of the distinction stems from the idea that high culture is synonymous with culture, and that those who do not participate in it are somehow lesser than those who do. Whilst this distinction has been around for hundreds of years, it became a common term in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. There are a number of different organizations that try to ...

Term Paper

1500 words The Modern period continued to change the society until the late 20th century, where a new artistic era began and continued up to this day; the 21st century eventually became the Post-Modern Period and many radical changes brought by the Modernism is adopted by the new art styles to the point of it is hard to discern what Post-Modernism is all about. If Modernism concentrated on the preservation of ideal pure art, Post Modernism welcomed changes by using eccentric methods to produce contemporary art found in Modern Museums. The 21st century is currently covered by postmodern epoch ...

Crimpan studied the history of photography, its institutionalization and its reference in the post-modernism era. In this case, Crimpan indicates that the introduction of photography in the museum set precedence of the artistic form and appreciation of photography as an art. In this case, following the discovery made by Julia Van Haaften of the reorganization of photographic pieces found in books, the value of photography as both an art and aesthetic has been introduced. According to Crimpan, the replacement of structural wording and library reorganization of photographic pieces have warranted the inclusion of another artistic dimension associated with photography ...

An art movement is a specific period characterized by artists who are driven towards a common goal. The fashion industry has made numerous attempts over the years to associate itself with visual arts and popular artists (The Art Story Foundation, 2016). The collaboration between artists and fashion is mutually beneficial for both parties. Fashion applies art more than most practices in the world to reach a wider and a more popular audience. These collaborations have seen the fashion design industry evolve, innovate and provoke its numerous designs and collections (Blechman, 2013). These collaborations have further been encouraged by common ...

More and more people are trying to save up some money in order to travel and see the world. There are hardly any people whose dream is not connected with traveling and exploring new and exotic places. Seeing the world is a dream of every individual. Our planet is an amazing source of distant roads, untouched nature and endangered species of animals. Many people prefer travelling to mega polis with skyscrapers and amazing architecture while others enjoy visiting and opening the enigmas of past times, which created amazing castles and palaces. Another part of travelers cannot imagine their life ...

A case study is viewed as a research methodology or basic strategy that has been scrutinized in the past as lacking rigor as well as objectivity when compared with other research methods. But there are certain times that a case study can be a useful tool for the preliminary part of the research. It is in these times that the case study can be viewed as an important marketing staple that can be used for many varied reasons (Rowley, 2002). As an example, a business can use a case study to demonstrate how their product or service has been ...

11th of May 2016

Chinese Contemporary Art. Art Galleries.

Introduction

The emergence of art galleries of contemporary art in China of the XX century, and their rapid growth was due to strong public interest in the arts, new creative trends and evidence of qualitative changes in the perception of contemporary art by the audience. This modern audience with its subtle psychological systems and the pursuit of individual forms of creative empathy brought to life and established art galleries in the cultural space of China. There were no fundamental theoretical developments in the history of the gallery business and the organization of art galleries in ...

Jim McGuigan (2009), in his widely-acclaimed article “Doing a Florida: The Creative Class Thesis and Cultural Policy” talks about Richard Florida, considered as a the guru of management in America. According to McGuigan, Florida’s work The Rise of the Creative Class was a classic case of looking impressive on the surface, but is actually riddled with flaws in the inside. In addition, Florida’s work on cultural policy leans more on the managerialist perspective which resulted to the oversimplication of the scientific reasoning and research (McGuigan 310). To a reader who has no background on the social sciences, ...

Fluxus art movement or simply Fluxus, started as a loosely defined group of artists, musicians and poets who had nothing more in common than a vision of life integrated in art, and art as the living of a life. More than 50 artists were associated with the art movement, creating music and anti-music, art that was not adherent to ‘museum defined standards’ and poems that were not traditional. This movement caused social and economic change in the society in the 1960’s (when it was first started) and had effects whose fruits we reap even today. This movement can ...

Although I had had several holidays in Western cities like London, Paris, New York and Berlin, I had never got any opportunity to visit a city in the Eastern Hemisphere. I had always been enthusiastic to have fabulous time in major cities of the world in the Eastern Hemisphere like Tokyo. I felt most enthusiastic about Tokyo because it is considered the capital of the Eastern Hemisphere. Tokyo is one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, and it functions as both the largest city and the capital of Japan. During the last summer, I decided to have an 11 day ...

Introduction

Various communities have had different customs that they respect and follow in their daily activities. As time moves on some of the traditions and myths, have been forgotten while others are still practiced. Some beliefs have lost value because the society has evolved, and new things have come up in life. The false door of the Royal sealer neferiu is a tradition that is well known in Egypt, mostly the upper northern part. The custom existed since the old kingdom up to 2010 BC. The Egyptians had a belief that once a person dies the soul freely enter and ...

Museums play significant role in a cultural live of every nation. Hans Haacke called museums “managers of consciousness”. He explained, “museums give us the interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it” (Leeuwen et al., 2013). I, personally, agree with this citation. Especially it is true for such nations as Welsh who are trying to identify themselves while being a part of Great Britain. Cardiff, as a capital of a state, performs as a cultural center of the nation with great amount of cultural sightseeing including museums. National Museum of Cardiff is a ...

There is little doubt that the internet has changed much of how the world functions. The term “Post-Internet” was coined to describe an idea that how society interacts with both arts and criticism has changed significantly since the internet has been adopted so widely. Keep in mind the word “post” is not meant to mean after, but rather about. The term came from a discussion by Artie Vierkant, Marisa Olson, and Gene McHugh about the internet and art. Although the term has been accepted, the movement behind the term is not fully defined. It assumes the center of network ...

Introduction

The world we live in today has not always been what it is but has been built to what it is today. While little is known of the Western world, specifically the Americas before explorers such as Christopher Columbus discovered it, there exists rich literature of ancient civilizations that have shaped all spheres of modern life. The most recognized civilizations include the Egyptian civilization, the Roman Empire, and the Greek civilization. The fall of one civilization led to the rise of another civilization and so forth. The earliest recorded civilization, however, is the Egyptian civilization and scholars have credited ...

Dear Friend, I am deeply interested in an interesting art work “Woman with a hat” by the famous artist Henri Matisse, who is one of my favorites. The canvas was done in the year 1905 and first exhibited at Salon d'Automne in Paris. However, as I intend to see the artwork, I am traveling to San Francesco where the artwork is displayed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Femme au chapeau 2016). I want to know more about the artist and his work. Fortunately, I live close to San Francesco and drove there on a weekend. I stayed ...

Archaeology gives us a better understanding of humans’ past historical events. It provides us with details of how people lived, their routines, rituals, culture and society. In addition, it helps is determining whether certain misconceptions about communities are factual or true. The integration of archaeology to anthropology is a way to gain more understanding of history. By studying past communities using their artefacts and structure, we gain more information on how we are similar to the past communities or the influences such history has on people descended from the same communities. A lot has been learnt by discovering ancient ...

The Musee du Quai Branly in Paris boasts of an excellent and extensive collection of from different cultures, giving valuable insights into them. Those permanent and temporary collections in the great museum are original art, from Africa, South America, and Asia. The collections conserve about 370,000 works of art that display the cultural diversity of non-European civilizations from the Neolithic period till the 20th century. The non-European collections gradually accumulated in private collections because of the colonial expansion and economic development during the 18th century. The national museums were created following the French Revolution, and those ethnographic collections ...

Sustainable Tourism

Introduction Sustainable tourism is a concept that was developed to scale the image of tourism a notch higher. Tourism revolves around many activities that are environmental, social, economic and culturally oriented and tourism poses both positive and negative impacts on the dimensions above. It is with these effects in mind that the concept of sustainable tourism emerged. The idea was to see tourism have minimal negative impacts on the said aspects and maximize the positive effects it causes to the given destination. The aim was to ensure that tourism contributes positive developments and experiences in the regions where tourism ...

Question 1

A museum is a place where valuable objects and traditional artifacts such as paintings, pictures and other scientific and historical objects are kept for public viewing. According to the concept of Lubumbashi, a museum is a compact and moving show of paintings that provides diverse ways in which pictures of a prominent person are kept and reinvented after his death. Museums also provide ways of storing ancient cultures and preserving them for the present and future generations. Jewsiewicki attempts to adapt to Lubumbashi museum by organizing an urban art genre. Here artists use traditional materials such as reeds to ...

In Adolf Loos’ literature concerning Ornaments and Crime, he chooses to focus on how the world in the recent years has emerged to deny imagination and expression of feelings through art, defined by ornaments which has defied a chance to take course. He strongly criticizes how much the culture of yester years in the early centuries has been flashed down the drain, despite the fact that it entirely expressed the thought and mind of the artists, and many people could relate to it. Furthermore, Adolf Loos he goes ahead and develops an aesthetic purism which clearly elaborates his reasons ...

What do we think about when we hear the word “museum”? Actually, I cannot tell about all the people, but the first thing I think about is history. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of museums all over the world! I consider them to be places, that accumulate examples of some non-material conceptions like art, ethnology, history or science, and many other conceptions. All of them are really important for humanity. And most of them are very spiritual. Do you remember your school studying, when all the group was taken to a museum and told about its history, meaning ...

Introduction

The city of Cambridge, known for its culture, heritage and the numerous institutions of excellence attracts a large number of tourists from across the world. This globally renowned centre of higher education has been the home of great thinkers and scientists for the past 500-600 years and has made immense contribution in shaping up the world that we see as it is today. This is the place where atom was first split, neutrons and electrons were discovered, the renowned theory of evolution was coined by Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity . The University of Cambridge, which has ...

Introduction

The medieval Islamic city was influenced by the enthusiastic patronage of art and architecture, examples being Mamluk rulers and the amirs of the Mamluk era. The architectural projects from this period comprised of both small and multifaceted complexes. The buildings helped the society in many ways and could be used to hold important functions, religious and commercial activities amongst others. Buildings were developed in the form of mosques, hospitals, kuttab, and Kurf amongst others. The architectural projects demonstrated the urban and artistic order that was significant in ensuring that the fundamental pillars of Islam were observed within the society. ...

It used to be fun to visit museums when in school with friends and school groups. However, my visit to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was different, as now I was in college and going there not just because everyone is going, or that your school or teachers have organized a tour, but I was going there based on my own plans and decisions. I had heard a lot about LACMA and decided to get more information about the museum online. I explored the website of LACMA and learned about the history of the museum. I learned ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

When traveling, people often include famous museums in their itinerary as this is a great way to get familiar with the history and culture of the country. Moreover, they get to see famous artwork and exhibits that cannot be seen anywhere else under one roof. Museums are undoubtedly the storehouse of a history and culture of a county. I was fortunate to make a visit to the famous Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). I learned about the current collection galleries and temporary exhibitions and the special offers and discounts going on at the website of LACMA (LACMA ...

The technology of architecture is quickly evolving, and so too are the tastes and aesthetic desires of architects. Architecture presents a way for an individual to interact with a space, and an art museum in particular has to play a very specific role: it has to house fine art, of course, but it also has to be a functional, aesthetically pleasing space. The Perez Art Museum Miami is one of the most spectacular museums in the City of Miami—not only because of the art it contains, but because of the architecture of the building itself. It is a ...

Summer break is always the perfect time to experience something new. However, I wasn’t in the market for shopping for new experiences but rather continue with the things I was used that. That would be chilling on some beach with my friends, looking good, and meeting new people all summer long. However, my parents had other plans for how I would spend my summer: in Paris, France! I was totally psyched to go until I saw my mom’s schedule for the trip. Museums, gardens, some playbill? Ugh. Talk about an expensive field trip. Not only were that ...

NEW HERITAGE VALUES

Modern heritage involves the conservation of heritage with the application of new heritage values. Mankind is known for its ability to express themselves through art. This includes designs used to come up with various structures and their representation to the artist and the locals. Modern heritage includes post war office buildings, lighthouses and suburbs among others. In the past, only older buildings were referred to as heritage. However in the recent days newer buildings have also been classified as heritage. This paper will discuss issues affecting heritage conservation, both old and new, in relation to new heritage values. It ...

Comparison between Tourism in Delhi and Beijing

Beijing and Delhi are some of the world's renowned cities, located in some of the worlds, most populated countries. They are also major a tourist attraction sites in those countries contributing a significant amount to the country's GDP. They also have some of the oldest sites that preserve the native culture and the national heritage. India and China have become popular tourist destinations due to the presence of these cities. In essence, in the past decade, tourist volumes have increased following extensive marketing and improved international relations, especially in China. The paper shall compare and contrast tourism for Beijing ...

The plan envisions the museum being located at site where there is built a block and this is near the cultural venue and the waterfront. The existing building should be demolished because; first it is of no cultural significance and secondly it is expensive for it to be totally renovated. Museums represent the past and present social way of life of the people and hence this one should be located near cultural institutions of the same nature. This proposed site will be useful for the museum because it compliments already existing institutions. One of the main objections to the ...

Winnipeg, Manitoba is a thriving Canadian city whose economy is to an important extent based upon cultural industries. After the 1970s economic crisis, the city started to reduce its manufacturing industry and to invest more in services and in cultural businesses. The city reinvented itself following the downtown rehabilitation process. This project included the rejuvenation of the Forks, a historical site which now attracts millions of visitors each year. The city also invested in its digital media educational programs in order to form skilled workers for the newest technological companies in the fields of film production, advertising, graphic design, ...